... is, apart from the per-payment-fee they want to profit from, one more obvious reason why every non-central bank wants to get rid of cash - they can create electronic money almost as much as they like in the existing fractional-reserve banking system. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Corporations putting profit before moral isn't news - Big Tobacco still earns billions every year by turning children into addicts.
But it is somewhat new that people of the same profession now warn the public about their colleagues being only after your money... as if we didn't know that already.
"Star Trek Discovery" season 1 was such a boring mess of depressing blood-sweat-and-tears story diluted over way to many hours of airtime that I will rather wait for another Orville season to breathe some fresh air into the genre.
I have yet to see any 35mm analog material that comes anywhere close to the quality of 4k videos I can shoot on my mundane digital consumer camera. I don't get how people confuse film grain with actual image detail. Even hyped recent 70mm films like "The hateful Eight" are just sad grainy proof of analog films being overrated.
If you want to see some decent 4k quality, have a look at documentaries like "Planet Earth 2" or a very few movies like "Lucy" where resolution is actually used for details, not film grain.
I recently (and for the first time) experienced that a colleague who was a highly valued hard worker in the eyes (and according to the peer reviews) of his colleagues was fired - seemingly just because a manager 3 levels above him disliked him, despite never having worked directly with him, even without ever having confronted him with whatever caused his antipathy. In this particular case, even the direct manager of the guy was fine with him, and did not understand why 2 levels above him a decision was made to get rid of the guy.
Had a "Jury" decided, no question the outcome would have been different.
Given the audible shortcomings of the very lossy codecs used by wireless headphones today, I don't see how such could be called "High-End". Maybe because you need to get High on drugs to End the pain from hearing compression artefacts and temporary reception outages?
Given how eager corporations are to hire the least expensive people, it would be surprising if they embraced paying for people with both developer and operator skills.
And "buy one, get one free" just doesn't work here.
... on an Xbox One X that perfectly well plays all the games inserted on physical discs - and which is not connected to the Internet.
If Xbox wasn't useable offline, I would never had bothered looking at it - if only because you can be sure, if the machine is online, MicroSoft will harvest personal data from you like crazy.
... and unlike AMD, they provide _stable_ open source drivers, then I'm all ears. At this point in time, the Intel iGPU drivers are the only ones I can trust to run 365/24 in a Linux system.
... at some point in time? How much of the money in bank accounts or 10-USD-bills was payment for some illegal activity at some point in time?
Definitely all interesting questions, but like the article headline, the answers would not really tell us much about the nature or usability of the respective currency.
- registering a live.com account (with personal information) becomes mandatory to use github
- github experience becomes "optimized for Edge", and somehow more sluggish for all other browsers
- use of GVFS becomes mandatory. Complete decentralized copies of hosted repositories is first discouraged, later made impossible
- web service starts to use binary, Windows-only extensions, later some features are no longer available without
- MicroSoft starts removing projects that contradict their business models or just generally displease them
- MicroSoft requires developers to utilize MicroSoft-issued certificates to sign their commits. First certificates are free, later they start to cost per month.
- MicroSoft sells NSA and other paying customers the service to implant back-doors in the sources hosted at github - of course "signed" with the seemingly correct developer certificate.
... and so so... MicroSoft is still MicroSoft, a ruthless for-profit organization that knows no moral borders for crushing their competetion and keeping their users addicted.
Sure, nobody could so far put up any evidence that Quantum Computing will ever be able to be more efficient than conventional computing, but hey, let's allocate billions to the belief in the hype.
... but it certainly no longer is. If you see the insane amounts of CPU usage for browsers executing tons of JavaScript, decoding video, rendering 3D graphics - I doubt that you can still call them "thin".
One notable aspect of this court rule was that it did not even consider the legality of _what_ the BND wants others to do - they were purely ruling on the validity of the formal order to provide them access.
The more interesting round will be at the Bundesverfassungsgericht, where (hopefully) the legality of eavesdropping on all that (mostly intra-country) traffic will be considered.
But in the end, all those court rules are not really important - spy agencies will spy on every bit of traffic, legal or not, as long as they exist. And in the case of the BND we have already seen how they do it even to provide their "friends" in other countries a favour - e.g. for industrial espionage.
... if this should ever happen. And exactly because I never wanted to have relevant data fall into the hands of an evil corporation like M$, I did not use anything besides pure public git hosting at github - a function that can easily be transferred elsewhere, as the data in the git repository itself is the only content.
So they plan to deliver the software no later than end of 2019 where you click on some portrait image on the web, the AI will identify and locate the person's home based on social media and Google maps data, and then automatically launch a drone strike on that home. Testing will then commence with the critics of the project as guinea pigs.
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... that the parents of the Southpark children wanted to get back so eagerly in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (it is called "Backdoor Sluts 9").
Just buy Huawai or ZTE, there, only the one backdoor from the chinese government is built-in.
... is, apart from the per-payment-fee they want to profit from, one more obvious reason why every non-central bank wants to get rid of cash - they can create electronic money almost as much as they like in the existing fractional-reserve banking system. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Corporations putting profit before moral isn't news - Big Tobacco still earns billions every year by turning children into addicts.
But it is somewhat new that people of the same profession now warn the public about their colleagues being only after your money... as if we didn't know that already.
"Star Trek Discovery" season 1 was such a boring mess of depressing blood-sweat-and-tears story diluted over way to many hours of airtime that I will rather wait for another Orville season to breathe some fresh air into the genre.
Actually, 500M are about 3.5 days of Germany's defense budget, and about 0.64 days of the defense budget of the European NATO member states.
I have yet to see any 35mm analog material that comes anywhere close to the quality of 4k videos I can shoot on my mundane digital consumer camera. I don't get how people confuse film grain with actual image detail. Even hyped recent 70mm films like "The hateful Eight" are just sad grainy proof of analog films being overrated. If you want to see some decent 4k quality, have a look at documentaries like "Planet Earth 2" or a very few movies like "Lucy" where resolution is actually used for details, not film grain.
How come Hollywood has not turned this into a monster-movie, yet? I mean, they made multiple such movies about flying sharks...
Is it only me or should anyone assume that a "long term evolution" spans for a longer time then between 3G and 5G?
To me that is like watching people eat. It just does not cause any of the pleasant feelings that the activity itself induces.
Plus, of course, I am totally fine with nobody watching me play (or eat), probably because I have been born to early to adopt the "selfie"-gene.
I recently (and for the first time) experienced that a colleague who was a highly valued hard worker in the eyes (and according to the peer reviews) of his colleagues was fired - seemingly just because a manager 3 levels above him disliked him, despite never having worked directly with him, even without ever having confronted him with whatever caused his antipathy. In this particular case, even the direct manager of the guy was fine with him, and did not understand why 2 levels above him a decision was made to get rid of the guy.
Had a "Jury" decided, no question the outcome would have been different.
Given the audible shortcomings of the very lossy codecs used by wireless headphones today, I don't see how such could be called "High-End". Maybe because you need to get High on drugs to End the pain from hearing compression artefacts and temporary reception outages?
... because in 2018, it seems asked to much from a 500,- EUR computer to support complicated technology like Bluetooth keyboards/mice.
Hilarious...
Foam is too obvious of a destruction, and might not be good enough to dampen the recording.
Bring the electric extracted from a 3 bucks electric mosquito zapper, and shock the amazon device into nirvana - leaves no visible traces.
I could live with the lesser 3d power of old ATI cards - but not without 4k 60Hz displays, which only the newer ones support.
Given how eager corporations are to hire the least expensive people, it would be surprising if they embraced paying for people with both developer and operator skills.
And "buy one, get one free" just doesn't work here.
... on an Xbox One X that perfectly well plays all the games inserted on physical discs - and which is not connected to the Internet.
If Xbox wasn't useable offline, I would never had bothered looking at it - if only because you can be sure, if the machine is online, MicroSoft will harvest personal data from you like crazy.
... and unlike AMD, they provide _stable_ open source drivers, then I'm all ears. At this point in time, the Intel iGPU drivers are the only ones I can trust to run 365/24 in a Linux system.
... at some point in time? How much of the money in bank accounts or 10-USD-bills was payment for some illegal activity at some point in time?
Definitely all interesting questions, but like the article headline, the answers would not really tell us much about the nature or usability of the respective currency.
... coming up in about this order:
... and so so... MicroSoft is still MicroSoft, a ruthless for-profit organization that knows no moral borders for crushing their competetion and keeping their users addicted.
- registering a live.com account (with personal information) becomes mandatory to use github
- github experience becomes "optimized for Edge", and somehow more sluggish for all other browsers
- use of GVFS becomes mandatory. Complete decentralized copies of hosted repositories is first discouraged, later made impossible
- web service starts to use binary, Windows-only extensions, later some features are no longer available without
- MicroSoft starts removing projects that contradict their business models or just generally displease them
- MicroSoft requires developers to utilize MicroSoft-issued certificates to sign their commits. First certificates are free, later they start to cost per month.
- MicroSoft sells NSA and other paying customers the service to implant back-doors in the sources hosted at github - of course "signed" with the seemingly correct developer certificate.
Sure, nobody could so far put up any evidence that Quantum Computing will ever be able to be more efficient than conventional computing, but hey, let's allocate billions to the belief in the hype.
Not only will the use not own anything and pay per use, Ubisoft will also collect all kinds of data from him and make him watch Ads until he barfs.
... but it certainly no longer is. If you see the insane amounts of CPU usage for browsers executing tons of JavaScript, decoding video, rendering 3D graphics - I doubt that you can still call them "thin".
One notable aspect of this court rule was that it did not even consider the legality of _what_ the BND wants others to do - they were purely ruling on the validity of the formal order to provide them access.
The more interesting round will be at the Bundesverfassungsgericht, where (hopefully) the legality of eavesdropping on all that (mostly intra-country) traffic will be considered.
But in the end, all those court rules are not really important - spy agencies will spy on every bit of traffic, legal or not, as long as they exist. And in the case of the BND we have already seen how they do it even to provide their "friends" in other countries a favour - e.g. for industrial espionage.
... if this should ever happen. And exactly because I never wanted to have relevant data fall into the hands of an evil corporation like M$, I did not use anything besides pure public git hosting at github - a function that can easily be transferred elsewhere, as the data in the git repository itself is the only content.
So they plan to deliver the software no later than end of 2019 where you click on some portrait image on the web, the AI will identify and locate the person's home based on social media and Google maps data, and then automatically launch a drone strike on that home. Testing will then commence with the critics of the project as guinea pigs.