You can get a better GPS fix by having a base station at a surveyed point, but this isn't what they're doing, because it would be expensive.
Although that *is* how the original civilian GPS companies managed to get around the military-mandated fuzzing of gps data originally being provided to said companies...
More seriously... I'm not a huge fan of Netflix anymore, but who really cares about Cannes? It has always seemed to be more about what movie stars and rich people were going to show up, and less about the movies themselves. It's the model from 1930's Hollywood.
He also is clearly not talking about shadow profiles here.
I think the term is "dissembling".
But, really, based on decades and decades of prior examples... he knows doesn't have to walk away smelling like a rose. He can walk away with the committee grumbling loudly, and they're still not going to do anything substantive to protect the hoi-polloi. Congress-critters generally are generally very reluctant to take steps which penalize billionaires to any significant degree.
We weren't all told this, but had this made it into orbit, all wars would have been declared over, and it would have put an end to hunger.
It was amazing tech. Once a day as it flew over each city, it would launch enough cheeseburgers on parachutes to provide one burger per person per day. They even had a website - taken down soon after the failure, unfortunately - which allowed you to customize your burger.
I would think a wave-activated device, coupled with a security camera and some sort of mobile or web app, would be great (if I had a pool, which I don’t). It would work for neighborhood kids, which this wouldn’t. And, if I were away from the house, I could still call for emergency responders were it warranted.
This new “invention” seems like something we could’ve had in the 1960s. The only reason it’s even here is probably the word “KickStarter”. Hey, @whipslash, please consider adding the ability to filter out KickStarter stories, the way we can other subjects.
I actually work at said campus - and my biggest concern isn’t time, it’s not injuring some student who doesn’t seem to understand the relative mass difference between an automobile and a human.
A bullshit made-up story is quite a bit different than several sensors and cameras actively recording the event and presented as evidence in a case.
How is it evidence, really? What guarantee can the company give that the data it might provide hasn’t been tampered with? Did they work right with law enforcement or some legal entity ahead of time to make sure all data collection follows legal rules pertaining to evidence?
Sounds like driving in the University District in Seattle. Of course, the problem there is exacerbated by 35000 college-age kids who believe they’re immortal and invincible...
Maybe women's bathrooms are different, but - man, some guys are just pigs.
I work at a university - so with an above-average educated population - and what I see in the men's bathroom sometimes makes me sick. Guys (not just students - faculty too!) come out of stalls all the time without washing their hands afterwards... but that's not the worst. What's even worse is the guys who come out of the stall, do a quick fake pass through the sink (1-2 seconds max), then paw at the paper towel dispenser.
You really think the germs spread by an air dryer are worse than the feces being physically deposited on the towel dispenser?
Plus we used to have the old fashioned kind of paper towel dispensers - the ones with a hand lever. At least with those you could use a forearm or elbow to advance the paper. But now we've got "eco-friendly" dispensers that don't really work 50-75% of the time. When they work, you pull on the protruding paper to get a small section of towel - that's fine. But when they don't work, the only way to get paper is to manually rotate the little disk on the side of the dispenser - something you can't do with anything but your hands.
Probably as a "hint" they can provide to the customers who call and say "Help! I don't remember my password!" However that is an extremely stupid position to take.
Also, this quote was mind-boggling:
"I really do not get why this is a problem. You have so many passwords for every app, for every mail-account and so on. We secure all data very carefully, so there is not a thing to fear"
This person responded to a question regarding a demonstrably insecure practice basically with the tautological claim "it's not a insecure practice because we don't do insecure practices"?!
Twitter has been the place to find breaking news - especially for sports - for several years, which is the main reason I have stayed on the platform. But Twitter's management doesn't seem to know what to do with the product, and each change makes it less useful.
Take Notifications, for instance. Until a short while ago, Notifications worked exactly how you would expect - they were heads' ups regarding new direct messages, announcements about your account, etc. But at some recent point Twitter decided this was apparently an "underused opportunity" or some such nonsense, and started piling garbage into there. Now, whenever I get a notification alert, it's invariably something stupid like "so-and-so retweeted a tweet from such-and-such". I won't be surprised if, in the coming months, we start seeing "sponsored" notifications - e.g. advertisements. Long story short... I no longer even look at the Notifications panel, and have a permanent (and ever-increasing) tag indicating the number of unread items there.
Then there are the "Who to Follow" and "While You Were Away" injections into my timeline. You could argue the former might be worthwhile, if there appeared to be any logic behind it... but the suggestions seem to make little sense, and I suspect at least some of them are paid. With the latter - Twitter is all about recency, so why would I really care about a tweet from 12 hours ago? Anything worthwhile would have shown up on the more traditional media outlets at this point, and with much greater detail (and context).
And "Sponsored Tweets" - just call them ads, since that's what they are. I have yet to see one remotely interesting.
Bottom line - I find myself going to Twitter less and less. It still seems like an interesting idea in theory, but they're hell-bent on making it worthless.
Seriously, Sheryl - give people the option to pay for Facebook membership and guarantee that, with a paid subscription, a user's data will not be shared with anyone and excluded from Facebook's data mining.
Feel free to price it to cover the lost per-user revenue - which I doubt is more than a few cents. Heck, charge them a buck a month and turn a profit!
If Facebook did that, I would recommend that option to everyone I know who is unwilling to quit Facebook. I won't rejoin, but people like me aren't the norm anyway.
We have publicly available, high-resolution weather satellite imagery already. SpaceX isn't going to "out" something which isn't already visible to the public one way or another.
Heck, a US "invasion" force is probably locatable from the FitBit website.
Hobbyists already track pretty much everything in orbit - military secret or not. It's just about impossible to hide the existence of something in orbit.
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You can get a better GPS fix by having a base station at a surveyed point, but this isn't what they're doing, because it would be expensive.
Although that *is* how the original civilian GPS companies managed to get around the military-mandated fuzzing of gps data originally being provided to said companies...
With Blackjack! And Hookers!
More seriously... I'm not a huge fan of Netflix anymore, but who really cares about Cannes? It has always seemed to be more about what movie stars and rich people were going to show up, and less about the movies themselves. It's the model from 1930's Hollywood.
He also is clearly not talking about shadow profiles here.
I think the term is "dissembling".
But, really, based on decades and decades of prior examples... he knows doesn't have to walk away smelling like a rose. He can walk away with the committee grumbling loudly, and they're still not going to do anything substantive to protect the hoi-polloi. Congress-critters generally are generally very reluctant to take steps which penalize billionaires to any significant degree.
It might happen with badly configured IPv6.
Well, then, it would seem that "badly configured IPv6" has pretty much been the norm under most OSes, until fairly recently.
I'm not arguing - just pointing out we're not talking about some tiny edge case.
We weren't all told this, but had this made it into orbit, all wars would have been declared over, and it would have put an end to hunger.
It was amazing tech. Once a day as it flew over each city, it would launch enough cheeseburgers on parachutes to provide one burger per person per day. They even had a website - taken down soon after the failure, unfortunately - which allowed you to customize your burger.
Lately whenever Slashdot posts a story that shows Russia in a bad light, Slashdot starts having trouble with its nginx gateway.
you see people screaming "Treason! HANG THEM!" about basically anything the media tells them to.
You're right - we've seen the President tweet out basically anything mentioned on Fox & Friends.
It would seem a simple matter to build in a default (override-able) “re-enable in 8 hours” feature into such a system.
Oh, and 150 meters isn’t remotely close to 170 feet - it’s a hair over 492 feet. 50 meters is about 162 feet... is that what was meant?
I would think a wave-activated device, coupled with a security camera and some sort of mobile or web app, would be great (if I had a pool, which I don’t). It would work for neighborhood kids, which this wouldn’t. And, if I were away from the house, I could still call for emergency responders were it warranted.
This new “invention” seems like something we could’ve had in the 1960s. The only reason it’s even here is probably the word “KickStarter”. Hey, @whipslash, please consider adding the ability to filter out KickStarter stories, the way we can other subjects.
other swimmers?
One would think “other swimmers” in a home swimming pool would be aware of any unexpected additional body entering the pool - child, dog, caribou...
I actually work at said campus - and my biggest concern isn’t time, it’s not injuring some student who doesn’t seem to understand the relative mass difference between an automobile and a human.
The end of the universe may occur sooner if proton decay exists.
20-25 year old cars are pretty common in NY and in the Western US
Tell me about it.
A bullshit made-up story is quite a bit different than several sensors and cameras actively recording the event and presented as evidence in a case.
How is it evidence, really? What guarantee can the company give that the data it might provide hasn’t been tampered with? Did they work right with law enforcement or some legal entity ahead of time to make sure all data collection follows legal rules pertaining to evidence?
Sounds like driving in the University District in Seattle. Of course, the problem there is exacerbated by 35000 college-age kids who believe they’re immortal and invincible...
Specifically: How does a cop pull over a self-driving car? I mean, exactly how does that happen logistically?
Maybe women's bathrooms are different, but - man, some guys are just pigs.
I work at a university - so with an above-average educated population - and what I see in the men's bathroom sometimes makes me sick. Guys (not just students - faculty too!) come out of stalls all the time without washing their hands afterwards... but that's not the worst. What's even worse is the guys who come out of the stall, do a quick fake pass through the sink (1-2 seconds max), then paw at the paper towel dispenser.
You really think the germs spread by an air dryer are worse than the feces being physically deposited on the towel dispenser?
Plus we used to have the old fashioned kind of paper towel dispensers - the ones with a hand lever. At least with those you could use a forearm or elbow to advance the paper. But now we've got "eco-friendly" dispensers that don't really work 50-75% of the time. When they work, you pull on the protruding paper to get a small section of towel - that's fine. But when they don't work, the only way to get paper is to manually rotate the little disk on the side of the dispenser - something you can't do with anything but your hands.
Probably as a "hint" they can provide to the customers who call and say "Help! I don't remember my password!" However that is an extremely stupid position to take.
Also, this quote was mind-boggling:
"I really do not get why this is a problem. You have so many passwords for every app, for every mail-account and so on. We secure all data very carefully, so there is not a thing to fear"
This person responded to a question regarding a demonstrably insecure practice basically with the tautological claim "it's not a insecure practice because we don't do insecure practices"?!
Twitter has been the place to find breaking news - especially for sports - for several years, which is the main reason I have stayed on the platform. But Twitter's management doesn't seem to know what to do with the product, and each change makes it less useful.
Take Notifications, for instance. Until a short while ago, Notifications worked exactly how you would expect - they were heads' ups regarding new direct messages, announcements about your account, etc. But at some recent point Twitter decided this was apparently an "underused opportunity" or some such nonsense, and started piling garbage into there. Now, whenever I get a notification alert, it's invariably something stupid like "so-and-so retweeted a tweet from such-and-such". I won't be surprised if, in the coming months, we start seeing "sponsored" notifications - e.g. advertisements. Long story short... I no longer even look at the Notifications panel, and have a permanent (and ever-increasing) tag indicating the number of unread items there.
Then there are the "Who to Follow" and "While You Were Away" injections into my timeline. You could argue the former might be worthwhile, if there appeared to be any logic behind it... but the suggestions seem to make little sense, and I suspect at least some of them are paid. With the latter - Twitter is all about recency, so why would I really care about a tweet from 12 hours ago? Anything worthwhile would have shown up on the more traditional media outlets at this point, and with much greater detail (and context).
And "Sponsored Tweets" - just call them ads, since that's what they are. I have yet to see one remotely interesting.
Bottom line - I find myself going to Twitter less and less. It still seems like an interesting idea in theory, but they're hell-bent on making it worthless.
Seriously, Sheryl - give people the option to pay for Facebook membership and guarantee that, with a paid subscription, a user's data will not be shared with anyone and excluded from Facebook's data mining.
Feel free to price it to cover the lost per-user revenue - which I doubt is more than a few cents. Heck, charge them a buck a month and turn a profit!
If Facebook did that, I would recommend that option to everyone I know who is unwilling to quit Facebook. I won't rejoin, but people like me aren't the norm anyway.
We have publicly available, high-resolution weather satellite imagery already. SpaceX isn't going to "out" something which isn't already visible to the public one way or another.
Heck, a US "invasion" force is probably locatable from the FitBit website.
Hobbyists already track pretty much everything in orbit - military secret or not. It's just about impossible to hide the existence of something in orbit.
I must admit that, when I saw this story posting, my mind immediately went back to this:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni...
Wish I had some mod points to give you, since you’re the only one who’s really identified the crux of the matter.