It seems to me that holding your silence is the best option in the UK too. Just because the police tell you some tricky statement to try and get you to make a mistake doesn't mean you shouldn't hold your silence. How can the defense "depend" on those answers, when they don't know what the answers will be? In all cases, making a statement under maximum duress and stress is not a good idea. The statement "You don't have to say anything now, but it if you don't, it may harm the ability of the prosecution to win a conviction and force you to rot in jail." is just as accurate.
Any nation-state with the ability to hack software that would influence the most powerful warships in the world would not be doing so for farts and giggles over the course of months to cause a few (in the scheme of things) relatively minor collisions during peace time. They would reserve this cyber weapon for use when it really counted. If this was the result of a lone wolf hacker they would have sold this weapon for a huge amount of money to any of the countries that would want them to use against the US when needed, not risking its discovery messing around with it just for fun.
The amount of money he demanded ($200,000) seems like it was meant to be large enough to seem like a real demand, but small enough that it could be assembled fairly quickly. I cannot imagine that his real plan was to live out the the rest of his life on that sum
As the blurb stated, that was $1,213,226 in today's dollars. That would last a normal person a few decades. Who said anything about living out the rest of his life on that money? It's a very big chunk of money, and represents $200k he got instantly for free without working for it. People commit crimes more serious (killing people) for far, far, far less money than that.
I suspect that the $200,000 was intentionally a red herring and that he quickly disposed of it, knowing that considerable effort would be expended looking for those bills. If I had to guess, I would think that he probably had some other loot already (probably much more than $200,000) somewhere else that was intended to be his real nest egg.
So in other words you're saying this was a very rich guy (a multimillionaire in today's dollars) who hijacked a plane and stole $200,000 just to hide the money forever because he knew it would be traced..... just for farts and giggles. If he had a "nest egg" greater than $200,000 already, and stole $200,000 he KNEW he couldn't spend, then... why didn't he just live off his nest egg?
I presume there is some other motive you're alluding to you didn't state, because none of that makes any sense.
Kaspersky has been distressed enough about this negative publicity to directly offer both the FBI and CIA access to it's source code
What does AV software do? At the end of the day, what does it do? Essentially it deletes files. It recognizes something is malicious, and it has complex scripts that removes it. That's what the software does, and that's what the source code was written to do. So now lets say you want to take down the electric grid of some power company, and your AV software is running on their computers. You push a virus definition file that flags critical files on those computers as malicious and the AV software deletes them. Control computers can no longer run their intended software, and bad stuff happens.
Tell me how showing anyone the source code prevents that from happening? Not to mention that AV software data files *are* executables, in that they contain scripts used for removing malware, and they are updated and pushed out almost daily.
I wonder which phone manufacturers sponsored this FUD. Technically possible? Sure. Any evidence it has ever occurred in the wild? No. Would this sort of malicious hardware have to transmit data in some way to offload the stolen information, thus raising alarms in various corporate type networks and the like? Eventually.
That's the US legal system for you. Obtaining textual type information - words, letters, numbers - is considered a form of speech, even when written. Law enforcement cannot coerce speech out of a person, spoken or written. Physical evidence and physical searches are allowed, and apparently courts are allowing the use of biometrics to access things fall into that category. At least for now until higher courts rule on this and provide proper guidance.
Oh definitely! The amount of Amiga stuff I downloaded from there... I also remember getting a good bit from rutgers.edu. Pirated Amiga discs and all. Don't guess anyone knew better in school administrations at the time of what was what. lol Just remember to set type to binary beforehand, or by the time you got your file downloaded (at 56k max), written to DS/DD discs, home to the Amiga, extracted via Disksmasher back to the actual disc images, you realize the hard way you downloaded in the default TEXT mode and they were unusable.
How the hell is hearing loss possible with a out-of-spectrum noise ? By definition sound outside the audible spectrum is sound outside the frequency response of the human auditory system.
"Sound" is changes in pressure through a medium (in this case, air). Our ears interpret a constant stream of these pressure changes (IE waves of them) within a certain frequency range as sound we can hear. So the pressure changes must occur within some frequency to be heard, and the intensity of the pressure change determines how "loud" the sound is. So what if you have pressure waves at, say, 20 hertz, that are very intense? We don't perceive it as sound (because our ears "filter" it out and don't care about it), yet the pressure waves are still physically impacting the structures in the ear, potentially causing damage.
What do you think an explosion is? It is one single, massive pressure wave (shock wave), which can most certainly can cause hearing loss.
In a comment earlier I threw out the idea that the hearing damage was caused by a countersurveillance device (such as one to disrupt laser microphones) that was employed incorrectly (used continuously when only meant for use for a few minutes at a time, wrong settings for the size of the room, etc). The fact that it happened to Canadians too might lend credence to that theory, as it is likely the US and Canada shares some degree of technology or services to protect diplomats in foreign countries. Still, this seems the kind of thing that the CIA would try and sweep under the rug if it was US tech that caused it, instead of playing dumb and letting it become mysterious international news.
There's also the possibility that the Cubans employed such a device to protect the privacy of foreign diplomats, as a nice gesture, and it the technology was misused in some way to cause hearing damage.
Yes, you do have a excellent point. There are surveillance devices called laser microphones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone) which reflect a laser beam off of some object acting like a diaphragm (such as a window) which vibrates as sound waves strike it. By measuring changes in the reflected beam, the audio can then be decoded. So it is entirely possible there is a counter device which emits subsonic sound waves that cause windows, etc, to vibrate constantly to cover and conceal the audio information. Perhaps the device is only for short term use (turn it on for a few minutes while you discuss top secret stuff in a meeting or phone call), and they have been used continuously 24/7.
Still, if that was the case, and these devices were employed by the USA as a countermeasure, you'd think they would keep this hushed up and deal with the medical issues silently (oh I crack myself up), instead of just playing dumb and it making news headlines.
There are millions and millions of transformers all over the world, in countries far poorer than Cuba, and they have been in use over the course of a hundred years. If this was remotely realistic (a transformer going bad or being repaired in such a way that it could cause subaudible soundwaves that damage hearing but in such a subtle way that no one notices it happening) then it would have been encountered many times before. Think of it - any time you would have an entire family of people going deaf at the same time, there would be extensive investigation into the cause, even in a third world country. If anything it would at least make the news, even if the cause was not found.
I think it is very doubtful it was the Cuban government. They want money from the USA, in the form of tourism, the ability for people in the USA to send money back home to family in Cuba, etc. Obama already set all that in motion and gave it to them for free (IE without any worthwhile conditions or concessions from the Cuban government). The Castros should be tickled pink with the state of things - they still have full control, yet are now getting some respect and official acknowledgement from the superpower next door, and money, goods and services are beginning to flow into their country.
So it makes absolutely no sense for them to do something as petty as this - injuring diplomats from the USA for no good reason whatsoever, with the only possible result being harm to relations between the two countries. If the Cuban government didn't want these diplomats there, they would simply tell them to leave - it is a dictatorship after all.
IMO this is the action of some other government, with sophisticated technology and deep covert capability, doing this because it is in their best interest for Cuba and the USA to not have good relations. I'll leave the exercise of figuring out who those players could be to you.
None the less, these tax breaks are really just a prisoner's dilemma. State offer them because other states offer them, but they would all be better off if no one offered them, and factories were optimally placed based on other factors.
No no no no.... This is a global market. The option of placing this factory in the USA anywhere is dependent upon these tax breaks, as the amount of taxes, fees, regulations, etc, to create this factory in some other country is vastly lower. Think about this for a moment... the state is not GIVING them $3 billion dollars. The state is simply NOT TAKING AWAY $3 billion dollars in the form of taxes for some amount of time up-front. You think if this plant was in China there would be a $3 billion dollars in taxes collected from a plant like this? LOL on the contrary, the government would probably be footing or subsidizing the cost of building the plant in the first place.
We would likely all be better off if there was a federal law to ban this nonsense.
And on a totally different note, the federal government needs to keep its grimy hands off of state business. The States have the right to certain modes of tax, or not to tax as they see fit. I'm sick to death of people advocating the loss of States' rights just because it happens to result in a ruling that aligns with their personal philosophy. New Hampshire has no sales tax, instead they raise their taxes through real estate taxes. Other states have high sales taxes and low real estate taxes. Diversity and many different personalities and tax structures among the states is a very good thing.
Despite being relatively easy, Apple keeps ignoring requests to enable a feature called Advanced Mobile Location (AML) in iOS.
That's what the "The Next Web" writer said. Then later in TFA: a quote from the European Emergency Number Association:
EENA calls on Apple to integrate Advanced Mobile Location in their smartphones for the safety of their customers
"Enabling" and "integrating" don't mean the same thing, which is why they are two different words. Further down in TFA:
EENA Executive Director Gary Machado has been involved in the AML project from the beginning. “I don’t want to trivialize the work it requires,” Machado said. “But from a technical point of view, deploying AML is not an overly complicated task for an OS provider.”
So this writer has gone from "not an overly complicated task for an OS provider." (which is surely an assumption by Machado based on his knowledge that Google and Apple have lots of money) to "relatively easy... to enable".
Further, AML sounds like a hack, and it has only been adopted by 4 countries in the EU (and only partially by one of the four), and has not even been accepted by the actual governing body. However, "there is a good chance it will be featured", which means the whole thing my not even be embraced by the rest of the EU. The reason I say it sounds like a hack is because the phone will SMS the location coordinates separately (while the call is ongoing) when the emergency call is placed. So on the receiving end they must have the ability to receive texts (many can't), and then somehow get that data associated with the actual call and into their CAD system.
The E911 system has the location information integrated directly into the cellular protocols themselves (the Radio resource location services protocol - RRLP). The real question is why the EU cellular systems do not support RRLP, as more than 90% of handsets in the world support it (and it is required for all handsets sold in the USA). I have't bothered to research to find out, so maybe someone can reply with info on that.
Thing is, it'd likely be cheaper to just buy the DVDs / Blurays of the Disney movies you want, rip them yourself and then watch them whenever you'd like.
You do know that movies make less than 1% of the total volume of what Disney has produced, right? Take a look at this list. These are all series which each comprise dozens if not hundreds of episodes. Yeah, you go ahead and buy all those DVD sets and tell me that's cheaper than paying for streaming.
Back in the 80s my family moved over a thousand miles away for dad to go to school. We were AAA members, and my parents visited the local AAA and got a TripTik. It seems they still have them (at least in name - seems to be an app or something now), but back then it was a linear map that was bound at the top. You would flip through the pages and the roadway you were to take was always oriented up / down along the paper. They would custom build it for you, inserting the appropriate sheets into the booklet, to get you to your destination. Then of course you could follow it backwards for the return trip. I remember they even manually highlighted the route, and would mark areas of construction on the map. They would also show points of interest and good places to stop.
"IT" back in 1978 was a vastly more manual process than it is now. That was transitioning out of the era of punch cards, massive amounts of manual data entry and output of EVERYTHING as hardcopy. Those sound like... secretarial type roles, do they not? There was certainly a lot of overlap with the work performed by secretarial type personnel, as far as typing, filing, etc. Have you watched Hidden Figures? There were massive amounts of human effort tightly integrated into "IT" back in that era. So for that reason women would have made fast inroads (as in Hidden Figures) into the IT world, as they were well qualified to perform much of the manual effort required for dealing with computers back then.
I also tend to agree that the reduction of female presence in IT was not due to anything done specifically to make that happen, but a lesser amount of interest in the field by women as it became more defined. I also believe that the transitioning of IT labor requirements from skills obtained in a vocational school type setting (secretarial type skills) to a college degree level (science / engineering) was a big factor. In 1978 19.7% of males had a 4 year college education, compared to 12.2% of women. So the simple fact that less women had an opportunity to be educated in an engineering field was obviously a factor.
Wow. Exact same experience. I used the TRS-80 in middle school, and we also called it the Trash 80 (this was in Ohio - was that moniker really that universal I wonder?). I was really bummed, because that class had TI-99/4A computers, which is what I had at home, so I was ready to kick but in some TI-BASIC programming. They just got the TRS-80s and they were brand new when I took that class.:( I remember it having one of the worst BASIC implementations, and the most convoluted, nasty way of editing or entering lines. It was strange and confusing was what I remember. I think pretty much any other computer would have been better. The teacher also had a very hard time with them, having been used to the TIs and having to switch to an entirely different computer which they did not know very well. TIs might not have been perfect, but there was one thing you could count on from Texas Instruments - professional, commercial quality consistent design. The TRS-80s felt like a hack job.
The hardware connectivity isn't the issue. The OS and apps will have to be modified and enhanced extensively to allow the watch to function without the phone. For me, the Apple Watch is primarily a notification extension of the phone. Notifications go to it, which in many cases is all I need to see about a particular notification (calendar event, message, email, whatever). In the other cases it prompts me to look at the phone to actually consume the information or reply. This has been the design paradigm Apple has followed and enforced on the users - you have to really bend over backwards to attempt to use the watch without interacting with the phone. So they will have to do some major overhauls to the standard suite of apps to make the watch more useful since it can now function physically without the phone.
Firefox can't come back - this is a battle they cannot win. Let's take a look at why Firefox became a success in the first place. A monopoly (Microsoft) won the first browser war by bundling IE into their OS, and by pushing IE into the corporate setting. IE became the most widely used browser, and business intranets were forced to be IE compatible. IE stagnated and became a festering piece of crap because MS became lazy when they dominated the market. They wanted stuff like ActiveX (which is really just a windows program embedded into a web page) to succeed because it forced web pages to be dependent on the Windows OS. They began to bastardize and cause many issues with HTML in the way IE interpreted things - HTML was defined by the way IE interpreted it.
It was into this environment that Firefox (or Firebird) came to be a success. The technically proficient (aka you and I) began using it, then we began installing it on friends' and relatives' computers. We taught them if a website didn't work in Firefox then to try it in IE, otherwise always use Firefox first. And so it came to be that Firefox became popular due to a grassroots kind of movement begun by people who recognized the technical insufficiency of IE.
So a monopoly was broken up, and healthy competition ensued. HTML once again became a standard that was not defined by a single web browser and how it decided to interpret it. Firefox succeeded in its goal, which in my opinion was to create a healthy browser competition and make HTML browser agnostic.
Now, we still have a healthy (or as healthy as we can hope something like HTML can be) web browser environment, with multiple players backed by huge corporate entities, who not only have the resources to spend on pushing browser technology, but they can literally push millions of people into using their browser - Microsoft (Edge), Google (Chrome / Android / Chromebook), and Apple (Safari / Mobile Safari). These companies produce browser tech as a side process, because they have millions of users that will by default use their browser, so it makes sense to have more control over that environment.
Mozilla really has nothing more than Firefox (specifically, the do not control hardware, operating systems, or markets containing millions of users), so they cannot leverage people into their browser. Chrome, Safari, and yes, even Edge, are now more than "good enough" as web browsers, so the technical of us have no real incentive to push people away from them to Firefox.
So congratulations Firefox, and we thank you profusely for single handedly reshaping the HTML and browser market for the better. You did your job.
Yes, absolutely. I was just complaining to a fellow developer about this recently. As an "old school" software developer, who compiled code on an Amiga with two floppy disk drives (one for the compiler and libraries, and the other for my workspace), I am greatly annoyed by the bloat I see in apps. In my opinion, for an app to be 300 MB, it either is comprised of at least 1 trillion lines of source code, or contain a 298 MB video showing how to use the app. The latter of course being totally unnecessary. The FB app is over 300 MB. The images and icons it contains are most certainly not taking up the bulk of that space. Does it contain its own build of Linux or something? Does it contain translations for every known human language? Really, there is no reason for applications of that kind to be nearly that large.
Two things I know for sure are that iOS apps do not need to be that large - there are some really good games that are only around 5 MB. Second, and I haven't used Android in years so maybe it has changed, but a given Android app always seemed to be smaller than the iOS version.
It appears this meant that books should be removed before the carry-on was scanned as part of the security check, and not that the books were not allowed back in the carry-on after the scanning and security check was complete.
It was likely a part of this pilot the TSA did, but United didn't get the message that the pilot was over with, or they didn't know the scope of the pilot: https://www.insidehighered.com...
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It seems to me that holding your silence is the best option in the UK too. Just because the police tell you some tricky statement to try and get you to make a mistake doesn't mean you shouldn't hold your silence. How can the defense "depend" on those answers, when they don't know what the answers will be? In all cases, making a statement under maximum duress and stress is not a good idea. The statement "You don't have to say anything now, but it if you don't, it may harm the ability of the prosecution to win a conviction and force you to rot in jail." is just as accurate.
It's a triumph of laser engineering and should be celebrated.
With alcoholic beverages? I can drink to that!
Any nation-state with the ability to hack software that would influence the most powerful warships in the world would not be doing so for farts and giggles over the course of months to cause a few (in the scheme of things) relatively minor collisions during peace time. They would reserve this cyber weapon for use when it really counted. If this was the result of a lone wolf hacker they would have sold this weapon for a huge amount of money to any of the countries that would want them to use against the US when needed, not risking its discovery messing around with it just for fun.
The NSA would love this. Keyword scanning of 95% of what's spoken in phone conversations (given enough processing power to transcribe them all).
None of what you said makes any sense.
The amount of money he demanded ($200,000) seems like it was meant to be large enough to seem like a real demand, but small enough that it could be assembled fairly quickly. I cannot imagine that his real plan was to live out the the rest of his life on that sum
As the blurb stated, that was $1,213,226 in today's dollars. That would last a normal person a few decades. Who said anything about living out the rest of his life on that money? It's a very big chunk of money, and represents $200k he got instantly for free without working for it. People commit crimes more serious (killing people) for far, far, far less money than that.
I suspect that the $200,000 was intentionally a red herring and that he quickly disposed of it, knowing that considerable effort would be expended looking for those bills. If I had to guess, I would think that he probably had some other loot already (probably much more than $200,000) somewhere else that was intended to be his real nest egg.
So in other words you're saying this was a very rich guy (a multimillionaire in today's dollars) who hijacked a plane and stole $200,000 just to hide the money forever because he knew it would be traced..... just for farts and giggles. If he had a "nest egg" greater than $200,000 already, and stole $200,000 he KNEW he couldn't spend, then... why didn't he just live off his nest egg?
I presume there is some other motive you're alluding to you didn't state, because none of that makes any sense.
Kaspersky has been distressed enough about this negative publicity to directly offer both the FBI and CIA access to it's source code
What does AV software do? At the end of the day, what does it do? Essentially it deletes files. It recognizes something is malicious, and it has complex scripts that removes it. That's what the software does, and that's what the source code was written to do. So now lets say you want to take down the electric grid of some power company, and your AV software is running on their computers. You push a virus definition file that flags critical files on those computers as malicious and the AV software deletes them. Control computers can no longer run their intended software, and bad stuff happens.
Tell me how showing anyone the source code prevents that from happening? Not to mention that AV software data files *are* executables, in that they contain scripts used for removing malware, and they are updated and pushed out almost daily.
I wonder which phone manufacturers sponsored this FUD. Technically possible? Sure. Any evidence it has ever occurred in the wild? No. Would this sort of malicious hardware have to transmit data in some way to offload the stolen information, thus raising alarms in various corporate type networks and the like? Eventually.
That's the US legal system for you. Obtaining textual type information - words, letters, numbers - is considered a form of speech, even when written. Law enforcement cannot coerce speech out of a person, spoken or written. Physical evidence and physical searches are allowed, and apparently courts are allowing the use of biometrics to access things fall into that category. At least for now until higher courts rule on this and provide proper guidance.
Oh definitely! The amount of Amiga stuff I downloaded from there... I also remember getting a good bit from rutgers.edu. Pirated Amiga discs and all. Don't guess anyone knew better in school administrations at the time of what was what. lol Just remember to set type to binary beforehand, or by the time you got your file downloaded (at 56k max), written to DS/DD discs, home to the Amiga, extracted via Disksmasher back to the actual disc images, you realize the hard way you downloaded in the default TEXT mode and they were unusable.
How the hell is hearing loss possible with a out-of-spectrum noise ?
By definition sound outside the audible spectrum is sound outside the frequency response of the human auditory system.
"Sound" is changes in pressure through a medium (in this case, air). Our ears interpret a constant stream of these pressure changes (IE waves of them) within a certain frequency range as sound we can hear. So the pressure changes must occur within some frequency to be heard, and the intensity of the pressure change determines how "loud" the sound is. So what if you have pressure waves at, say, 20 hertz, that are very intense? We don't perceive it as sound (because our ears "filter" it out and don't care about it), yet the pressure waves are still physically impacting the structures in the ear, potentially causing damage.
What do you think an explosion is? It is one single, massive pressure wave (shock wave), which can most certainly can cause hearing loss.
In a comment earlier I threw out the idea that the hearing damage was caused by a countersurveillance device (such as one to disrupt laser microphones) that was employed incorrectly (used continuously when only meant for use for a few minutes at a time, wrong settings for the size of the room, etc). The fact that it happened to Canadians too might lend credence to that theory, as it is likely the US and Canada shares some degree of technology or services to protect diplomats in foreign countries. Still, this seems the kind of thing that the CIA would try and sweep under the rug if it was US tech that caused it, instead of playing dumb and letting it become mysterious international news.
There's also the possibility that the Cubans employed such a device to protect the privacy of foreign diplomats, as a nice gesture, and it the technology was misused in some way to cause hearing damage.
Yes, you do have a excellent point. There are surveillance devices called laser microphones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone) which reflect a laser beam off of some object acting like a diaphragm (such as a window) which vibrates as sound waves strike it. By measuring changes in the reflected beam, the audio can then be decoded. So it is entirely possible there is a counter device which emits subsonic sound waves that cause windows, etc, to vibrate constantly to cover and conceal the audio information. Perhaps the device is only for short term use (turn it on for a few minutes while you discuss top secret stuff in a meeting or phone call), and they have been used continuously 24/7.
Still, if that was the case, and these devices were employed by the USA as a countermeasure, you'd think they would keep this hushed up and deal with the medical issues silently (oh I crack myself up), instead of just playing dumb and it making news headlines.
There are millions and millions of transformers all over the world, in countries far poorer than Cuba, and they have been in use over the course of a hundred years. If this was remotely realistic (a transformer going bad or being repaired in such a way that it could cause subaudible soundwaves that damage hearing but in such a subtle way that no one notices it happening) then it would have been encountered many times before. Think of it - any time you would have an entire family of people going deaf at the same time, there would be extensive investigation into the cause, even in a third world country. If anything it would at least make the news, even if the cause was not found.
I think it is very doubtful it was the Cuban government. They want money from the USA, in the form of tourism, the ability for people in the USA to send money back home to family in Cuba, etc. Obama already set all that in motion and gave it to them for free (IE without any worthwhile conditions or concessions from the Cuban government). The Castros should be tickled pink with the state of things - they still have full control, yet are now getting some respect and official acknowledgement from the superpower next door, and money, goods and services are beginning to flow into their country.
So it makes absolutely no sense for them to do something as petty as this - injuring diplomats from the USA for no good reason whatsoever, with the only possible result being harm to relations between the two countries. If the Cuban government didn't want these diplomats there, they would simply tell them to leave - it is a dictatorship after all.
IMO this is the action of some other government, with sophisticated technology and deep covert capability, doing this because it is in their best interest for Cuba and the USA to not have good relations. I'll leave the exercise of figuring out who those players could be to you.
None the less, these tax breaks are really just a prisoner's dilemma. State offer them because other states offer them, but they would all be better off if no one offered them, and factories were optimally placed based on other factors.
No no no no.... This is a global market. The option of placing this factory in the USA anywhere is dependent upon these tax breaks, as the amount of taxes, fees, regulations, etc, to create this factory in some other country is vastly lower. Think about this for a moment... the state is not GIVING them $3 billion dollars. The state is simply NOT TAKING AWAY $3 billion dollars in the form of taxes for some amount of time up-front. You think if this plant was in China there would be a $3 billion dollars in taxes collected from a plant like this? LOL on the contrary, the government would probably be footing or subsidizing the cost of building the plant in the first place.
We would likely all be better off if there was a federal law to ban this nonsense.
And on a totally different note, the federal government needs to keep its grimy hands off of state business. The States have the right to certain modes of tax, or not to tax as they see fit. I'm sick to death of people advocating the loss of States' rights just because it happens to result in a ruling that aligns with their personal philosophy. New Hampshire has no sales tax, instead they raise their taxes through real estate taxes. Other states have high sales taxes and low real estate taxes. Diversity and many different personalities and tax structures among the states is a very good thing.
Despite being relatively easy, Apple keeps ignoring requests to enable a feature called Advanced Mobile Location (AML) in iOS.
That's what the "The Next Web" writer said. Then later in TFA: a quote from the European Emergency Number Association:
EENA calls on Apple to integrate Advanced Mobile Location in their smartphones for the safety of their customers
"Enabling" and "integrating" don't mean the same thing, which is why they are two different words. Further down in TFA:
EENA Executive Director Gary Machado has been involved in the AML project from the beginning. “I don’t want to trivialize the work it requires,” Machado said. “But from a technical point of view, deploying AML is not an overly complicated task for an OS provider.”
So this writer has gone from "not an overly complicated task for an OS provider." (which is surely an assumption by Machado based on his knowledge that Google and Apple have lots of money) to "relatively easy ... to enable".
Further, AML sounds like a hack, and it has only been adopted by 4 countries in the EU (and only partially by one of the four), and has not even been accepted by the actual governing body. However, "there is a good chance it will be featured", which means the whole thing my not even be embraced by the rest of the EU. The reason I say it sounds like a hack is because the phone will SMS the location coordinates separately (while the call is ongoing) when the emergency call is placed. So on the receiving end they must have the ability to receive texts (many can't), and then somehow get that data associated with the actual call and into their CAD system.
The E911 system has the location information integrated directly into the cellular protocols themselves (the Radio resource location services protocol - RRLP). The real question is why the EU cellular systems do not support RRLP, as more than 90% of handsets in the world support it (and it is required for all handsets sold in the USA). I have't bothered to research to find out, so maybe someone can reply with info on that.
Thing is, it'd likely be cheaper to just buy the DVDs / Blurays of the Disney movies you want, rip them yourself and then watch them whenever you'd like.
You do know that movies make less than 1% of the total volume of what Disney has produced, right? Take a look at this list. These are all series which each comprise dozens if not hundreds of episodes. Yeah, you go ahead and buy all those DVD sets and tell me that's cheaper than paying for streaming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Back in the 80s my family moved over a thousand miles away for dad to go to school. We were AAA members, and my parents visited the local AAA and got a TripTik. It seems they still have them (at least in name - seems to be an app or something now), but back then it was a linear map that was bound at the top. You would flip through the pages and the roadway you were to take was always oriented up / down along the paper. They would custom build it for you, inserting the appropriate sheets into the booklet, to get you to your destination. Then of course you could follow it backwards for the return trip. I remember they even manually highlighted the route, and would mark areas of construction on the map. They would also show points of interest and good places to stop.
Here are some pictures (random sources off the internet that match what I remember):
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Fold out detail:
https://yearofadventure.files....
Here's one that's been stamped marking an area where delays might occur:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-2gf...
"IT" back in 1978 was a vastly more manual process than it is now. That was transitioning out of the era of punch cards, massive amounts of manual data entry and output of EVERYTHING as hardcopy. Those sound like... secretarial type roles, do they not? There was certainly a lot of overlap with the work performed by secretarial type personnel, as far as typing, filing, etc. Have you watched Hidden Figures? There were massive amounts of human effort tightly integrated into "IT" back in that era. So for that reason women would have made fast inroads (as in Hidden Figures) into the IT world, as they were well qualified to perform much of the manual effort required for dealing with computers back then.
I also tend to agree that the reduction of female presence in IT was not due to anything done specifically to make that happen, but a lesser amount of interest in the field by women as it became more defined. I also believe that the transitioning of IT labor requirements from skills obtained in a vocational school type setting (secretarial type skills) to a college degree level (science / engineering) was a big factor. In 1978 19.7% of males had a 4 year college education, compared to 12.2% of women. So the simple fact that less women had an opportunity to be educated in an engineering field was obviously a factor.
Wow. Exact same experience. I used the TRS-80 in middle school, and we also called it the Trash 80 (this was in Ohio - was that moniker really that universal I wonder?). I was really bummed, because that class had TI-99/4A computers, which is what I had at home, so I was ready to kick but in some TI-BASIC programming. They just got the TRS-80s and they were brand new when I took that class. :( I remember it having one of the worst BASIC implementations, and the most convoluted, nasty way of editing or entering lines. It was strange and confusing was what I remember. I think pretty much any other computer would have been better. The teacher also had a very hard time with them, having been used to the TIs and having to switch to an entirely different computer which they did not know very well. TIs might not have been perfect, but there was one thing you could count on from Texas Instruments - professional, commercial quality consistent design. The TRS-80s felt like a hack job.
The hardware connectivity isn't the issue. The OS and apps will have to be modified and enhanced extensively to allow the watch to function without the phone. For me, the Apple Watch is primarily a notification extension of the phone. Notifications go to it, which in many cases is all I need to see about a particular notification (calendar event, message, email, whatever). In the other cases it prompts me to look at the phone to actually consume the information or reply. This has been the design paradigm Apple has followed and enforced on the users - you have to really bend over backwards to attempt to use the watch without interacting with the phone. So they will have to do some major overhauls to the standard suite of apps to make the watch more useful since it can now function physically without the phone.
Firefox can't come back - this is a battle they cannot win. Let's take a look at why Firefox became a success in the first place. A monopoly (Microsoft) won the first browser war by bundling IE into their OS, and by pushing IE into the corporate setting. IE became the most widely used browser, and business intranets were forced to be IE compatible. IE stagnated and became a festering piece of crap because MS became lazy when they dominated the market. They wanted stuff like ActiveX (which is really just a windows program embedded into a web page) to succeed because it forced web pages to be dependent on the Windows OS. They began to bastardize and cause many issues with HTML in the way IE interpreted things - HTML was defined by the way IE interpreted it.
It was into this environment that Firefox (or Firebird) came to be a success. The technically proficient (aka you and I) began using it, then we began installing it on friends' and relatives' computers. We taught them if a website didn't work in Firefox then to try it in IE, otherwise always use Firefox first. And so it came to be that Firefox became popular due to a grassroots kind of movement begun by people who recognized the technical insufficiency of IE.
So a monopoly was broken up, and healthy competition ensued. HTML once again became a standard that was not defined by a single web browser and how it decided to interpret it. Firefox succeeded in its goal, which in my opinion was to create a healthy browser competition and make HTML browser agnostic.
Now, we still have a healthy (or as healthy as we can hope something like HTML can be) web browser environment, with multiple players backed by huge corporate entities, who not only have the resources to spend on pushing browser technology, but they can literally push millions of people into using their browser - Microsoft (Edge), Google (Chrome / Android / Chromebook), and Apple (Safari / Mobile Safari). These companies produce browser tech as a side process, because they have millions of users that will by default use their browser, so it makes sense to have more control over that environment.
Mozilla really has nothing more than Firefox (specifically, the do not control hardware, operating systems, or markets containing millions of users), so they cannot leverage people into their browser. Chrome, Safari, and yes, even Edge, are now more than "good enough" as web browsers, so the technical of us have no real incentive to push people away from them to Firefox.
So congratulations Firefox, and we thank you profusely for single handedly reshaping the HTML and browser market for the better. You did your job.
Yes, absolutely. I was just complaining to a fellow developer about this recently. As an "old school" software developer, who compiled code on an Amiga with two floppy disk drives (one for the compiler and libraries, and the other for my workspace), I am greatly annoyed by the bloat I see in apps. In my opinion, for an app to be 300 MB, it either is comprised of at least 1 trillion lines of source code, or contain a 298 MB video showing how to use the app. The latter of course being totally unnecessary. The FB app is over 300 MB. The images and icons it contains are most certainly not taking up the bulk of that space. Does it contain its own build of Linux or something? Does it contain translations for every known human language? Really, there is no reason for applications of that kind to be nearly that large.
Two things I know for sure are that iOS apps do not need to be that large - there are some really good games that are only around 5 MB. Second, and I haven't used Android in years so maybe it has changed, but a given Android app always seemed to be smaller than the iOS version.
Kaspersky has repeatedly denied that it has ties to any government and said it would not help any government with cyber espionage.
Like they would have any choice in the matter.
It appears this meant that books should be removed before the carry-on was scanned as part of the security check, and not that the books were not allowed back in the carry-on after the scanning and security check was complete.
It was likely a part of this pilot the TSA did, but United didn't get the message that the pilot was over with, or they didn't know the scope of the pilot:
https://www.insidehighered.com...