I don't miss it on my iPhone 7. The adapter that Apple shipped with the phone lives in the little pouch that came with my IEM ear buds, and everything else connects via Bluetooth, USB (Car), or wifi (home stereo).
I'm in IT for 35 years now and I can't agree more. What's this obsession with IoT? It's totally ludicrous. It's the Internet of Trouble.
On the other hand it can be quite helpful of done right. Computers are very good at monitoring things and doing consistently for long periods of time. I work with an organization that operates a camp in the wilderness. We've instrumented or walk in freezers and refrigerators so that they alarm and/or email us if the temperatures go out of whack (or the refrigeration units fail), we've put in flood detection systems in the basements of buildings that aren't used in the winter, freeze detection in sensitive places and so forth.
Basically the systems are doing what our staff could do, but often gets neglected. Computers are very good at this.
That said, none of these systems have access to the outside world and are deliberately segregated onto their own overlay network.
The degrade/selective ability function was deleted from the design after Clinton signed the executive order turning it off. They can shut it off in certain regions, but that also harms military users.
The funny part is that civilian users need more accurate systems then the military. When you're dropping a 2000lb GPS guided bomb, 6 for accuracy is more than enough. When you want to know what Lane your car is in, it ain't.
Uprooting your life and moving is an expensive proposition for anyone who had built a life for themselves over the course of decades. You effectively become trapped as you have family to care for, friends, a life. You can't leave because you can't afford it, and you stay because you can't afford it.
Well, the CRAM is a phalanx CIWS modified for use over land and built up area. It uses self destructing rounds. They destroy the round at the top of the trajectory causing it to fall as relatively harmless metal hail. Was deployed throughout Iraq and Afghanistan to counter insurgent mortars and Rockets. The problem? Each round costs something like$50, so at 3000 rounds per minute it gets expensive, fast.
But because religion is perennially behind the times on adapting to new things, a ‘revelation’ may be required for it to become accepted into dietary law.
Uh, this is the whole point of the article. The rabbinical school is she's of the curve here, debating things long before it hits mainstream. They are consulting both the secular experts and those well versed in religious doctrine. It will be interesting to see what becomes of it.
Despite what others have said, this comes down to the brick wall nature of error correction codes. Every time you erase and rewrite a flash cell, you as wear to the transistors that make up the memory cell. Eventually (and probably immediately too) some of the bits won't read correctly. To compensate for this, the controller runs a mathematical function on your data, allowing it to recover from a certain percentage of bar bits. This is good, as that combined with wear leveling allows it to run a long time. However, one it hits that percentage, it's like hitting a wall and it can't recover.
The more impressive thing is that it managed to splash down intact, under full control. Due to the stuck hydraulics for the grid fins, it was rolling at a fairly extreme rate. The rocket had already aimed at this spot in the water (it's designed this way) and was actually able to arrest the roll just prior to splash down. After splash down, it remained operational, despite falling onto its side, and successfully safe itself. Apparently it was still in communications and operational while bobbing away in the ocean.
For the uninitiated, the landing profile has the initial trajectory set with the booster aimed for a region away from the landing pad, be it the one on the ground, or the barge. This is in case of exactly a situation such as this, if something goes wrong during the landing process and the booster loses control authority, it will impact somewhere safe. It's only during the final landing burn (aka the hoverslam) that the booster side slips and changes its trajectory to land in the landing zone.
So yeah, the system worked exactly as designed, and is fail safe. All in all a successful failure.
This whole prohibition on felons doing anything just serves to perpetuate criminality. If someone's has a felony conviction for fraud, weed possession, or similar, and has completed their sentence, we should not be taking away any possibility for them to earn a living. Yeah, background checks should screen out those who would potentially harm passengers, but that's it.
This probe didn't have sensors, but that data is pretty well known. The radiation environment in deep space was measured throughout the Apollo years through Pioneers 6/7/8 were placed into Solar orbit to measure the radiation environment.
Additionally, most of the deep space probes (Voyager 1/2, Pioneer 10/11, all had particle/plasma detectors on them to detect the radiation environment.
So yes, there's pretty darned good data on the radiation environment of deep space.
The better solution is to regulate the nicotine content, and start to slowly ramp it down over a period of a decade or more. Slowly drop the addictive potential, and slowly wean the smokers off the drug.
This is why you need to stop this silliness and run elections the way we do up north. Government is dissolved, we have an election 40 to 80 days later, new government is sworn in within a week of being elected. Easy peasy.
So what you’re saying is that we need content validation without full encryption for most things. This is how windows update (and I think apple update). Hashes of the packages are transferred securely, while the bulk data is in the clear. This allows the data to be verified, while still permitting caching to work.
That would be extremely difficult. The GPS birds are in medium orbit, well above the theoretical range of any known or suspected asat weapon. Furthermore it would put their own network at risk, as it's in similar orbits.
Also means that for part of my commute (personally) I’m staring straight into the sun as it’s going eastbound in the morning. And I really don’t give a rat’s patooie about Melatonin or any of that stuff. That’s really not a factor to me.
Having been peripherally associated with some foreign development projects, it’s astounding how many people here completely don’t get that the real problem in many places isn’t getting clean water (though that’s a sexy and easy(er) problem to solve, but rather what to do with the waste at the other end of the problem.
I’ve supported a couple of charities that do their hardest to build safe, culturally appropriate latrines/privies. These are just as, if not more, critical than drilling wells etc...
I’m guessing you don’t live up here. I work a typical white collar, 9-5 job with a relatively short commute (~30 minutes or so).
Right now, for the months of December and January, working that schedule means that I basically never see the sun except through the windows at work (and when I take a walk at lunch). Sunrise at the winter solstice is roughly 8:39am, and sunset is at 16:26. It’s deep into the dark by the time I get home.
Sticking to DST means that the sun rises at 9:39, which means it’s no difference to me since I’m already waking up in the dark, but sunset is at 1726, meaning that I at least get to watch it go down as I drive home, and have some dusk as I’m out and about.
As someone who lives in Vancouver, BC, I’m all for sticking with DST year ‘round. While it means that the morning commute will be dark, it’s dark already. Sticking to DST year ‘round means that i’ll At least have some dusk and natural light for the drive home, or even when I’m at home after work.
Of course we still have these places-- lots of them. They're just not called "sanitoriums". They're called nursing homes, or IMD's (Institutions for Mental Disease), or ICF's (Intermediate Care Facilities), or other things.
Actually, for the most part they're called prisons. A disproportionate number of those incarcerated suffer from either diagnosed or undiagnosed mental illness. It's a toxic witches brew of politicians not wanting to appear to be "soft on crime", public apathy, and in the case of the United States private prisons doing their best to keep the money flowing.
The main problem with the loss of the headphone jack isn't that there's no way to plug in wired headphones. You can, after all, get adapters that let you plug corded headphones into the lightning port. The problem isn't even charging while using wired headphones, because you can buy adapters for three bucks that solve that problem, unlike the stock Apple version.
I dunno, my apple dongle lives in the pouch that came with my earbuds, along with my two-pin airline adapter (though I haven't needed that in a few years, thankfully). Keeping the buds in the pouch keeps the cord safe and free of tangles, so even without the dongle, I'd be normally carrying the earbuds in it anyway. Heck, the pouch has a little mesh pocket to store replacement ear foamies, which also holds the adapters just fine.
This would be a radical departure for the way that they've operated for the last 30 years. I have never once seen them deny warranty service like this, unless the part itself is the likely cause of the fault. I've brought in my MBP with all its mods and so forth, and never had an issue despite it being about as heavily modified as is possible (it's prior to the current crop of Retina machines).
Back when my MBP was under AppleCare, they were fine doing motherboard/screen/battery repairs under the warranty, even though I had modified my laptop about as much as you can... Maxed the ram, gone dual storage (SSD + mechanical disk).
They never batted an eye, except when the hard drive crapped out. At that point they wouldn't replace it when it was in the CD->HDD carrier, so I moved it back to the HD bay and they were fine dealing with it.
It's a good thing that Jet fuel isn't that flammable. Since the tragedy of Swiss air fuel explosion, airliners are equipped with inerting systems that fill the void in fuel tanks with nitrogen rather than with standard air. You can shoot tracer rounds through a half full tank and it won't ignite.
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I don't miss it on my iPhone 7. The adapter that Apple shipped with the phone lives in the little pouch that came with my IEM ear buds, and everything else connects via Bluetooth, USB (Car), or wifi (home stereo).
I'm in IT for 35 years now and I can't agree more. What's this obsession with IoT? It's totally ludicrous. It's the Internet of Trouble.
On the other hand it can be quite helpful of done right. Computers are very good at monitoring things and doing consistently for long periods of time. I work with an organization that operates a camp in the wilderness. We've instrumented or walk in freezers and refrigerators so that they alarm and/or email us if the temperatures go out of whack (or the refrigeration units fail), we've put in flood detection systems in the basements of buildings that aren't used in the winter, freeze detection in sensitive places and so forth.
Basically the systems are doing what our staff could do, but often gets neglected. Computers are very good at this.
That said, none of these systems have access to the outside world and are deliberately segregated onto their own overlay network.
The degrade/selective ability function was deleted from the design after Clinton signed the executive order turning it off. They can shut it off in certain regions, but that also harms military users.
The funny part is that civilian users need more accurate systems then the military. When you're dropping a 2000lb GPS guided bomb, 6 for accuracy is more than enough. When you want to know what Lane your car is in, it ain't.
Uprooting your life and moving is an expensive proposition for anyone who had built a life for themselves over the course of decades. You effectively become trapped as you have family to care for, friends, a life. You can't leave because you can't afford it, and you stay because you can't afford it.
Well, the CRAM is a phalanx CIWS modified for use over land and built up area. It uses self destructing rounds. They destroy the round at the top of the trajectory causing it to fall as relatively harmless metal hail. Was deployed throughout Iraq and Afghanistan to counter insurgent mortars and Rockets. The problem? Each round costs something like$50, so at 3000 rounds per minute it gets expensive, fast.
But because religion is perennially behind the times on adapting to new things, a ‘revelation’ may be required for it to become accepted into dietary law.
Uh, this is the whole point of the article. The rabbinical school is she's of the curve here, debating things long before it hits mainstream. They are consulting both the secular experts and those well versed in religious doctrine. It will be interesting to see what becomes of it.
Despite what others have said, this comes down to the brick wall nature of error correction codes. Every time you erase and rewrite a flash cell, you as wear to the transistors that make up the memory cell. Eventually (and probably immediately too) some of the bits won't read correctly. To compensate for this, the controller runs a mathematical function on your data, allowing it to recover from a certain percentage of bar bits. This is good, as that combined with wear leveling allows it to run a long time. However, one it hits that percentage, it's like hitting a wall and it can't recover.
The more impressive thing is that it managed to splash down intact, under full control. Due to the stuck hydraulics for the grid fins, it was rolling at a fairly extreme rate. The rocket had already aimed at this spot in the water (it's designed this way) and was actually able to arrest the roll just prior to splash down. After splash down, it remained operational, despite falling onto its side, and successfully safe itself. Apparently it was still in communications and operational while bobbing away in the ocean.
For the uninitiated, the landing profile has the initial trajectory set with the booster aimed for a region away from the landing pad, be it the one on the ground, or the barge. This is in case of exactly a situation such as this, if something goes wrong during the landing process and the booster loses control authority, it will impact somewhere safe. It's only during the final landing burn (aka the hoverslam) that the booster side slips and changes its trajectory to land in the landing zone.
So yeah, the system worked exactly as designed, and is fail safe. All in all a successful failure.
This whole prohibition on felons doing anything just serves to perpetuate criminality. If someone's has a felony conviction for fraud, weed possession, or similar, and has completed their sentence, we should not be taking away any possibility for them to earn a living. Yeah, background checks should screen out those who would potentially harm passengers, but that's it.
This probe didn't have sensors, but that data is pretty well known. The radiation environment in deep space was measured throughout the Apollo years through Pioneers 6/7/8 were placed into Solar orbit to measure the radiation environment.
Additionally, most of the deep space probes (Voyager 1/2, Pioneer 10/11, all had particle/plasma detectors on them to detect the radiation environment.
So yes, there's pretty darned good data on the radiation environment of deep space.
The better solution is to regulate the nicotine content, and start to slowly ramp it down over a period of a decade or more. Slowly drop the addictive potential, and slowly wean the smokers off the drug.
This is why you need to stop this silliness and run elections the way we do up north. Government is dissolved, we have an election 40 to 80 days later, new government is sworn in within a week of being elected. Easy peasy.
So what you’re saying is that we need content validation without full encryption for most things. This is how windows update (and I think apple update). Hashes of the packages are transferred securely, while the bulk data is in the clear. This allows the data to be verified, while still permitting caching to work.
That would be extremely difficult. The GPS birds are in medium orbit, well above the theoretical range of any known or suspected asat weapon. Furthermore it would put their own network at risk, as it's in similar orbits.
Also means that for part of my commute (personally) I’m staring straight into the sun as it’s going eastbound in the morning. And I really don’t give a rat’s patooie about Melatonin or any of that stuff. That’s really not a factor to me.
Having been peripherally associated with some foreign development projects, it’s astounding how many people here completely don’t get that the real problem in many places isn’t getting clean water (though that’s a sexy and easy(er) problem to solve, but rather what to do with the waste at the other end of the problem.
I’ve supported a couple of charities that do their hardest to build safe, culturally appropriate latrines/privies. These are just as, if not more, critical than drilling wells etc...
I’m guessing you don’t live up here. I work a typical white collar, 9-5 job with a relatively short commute (~30 minutes or so).
Right now, for the months of December and January, working that schedule means that I basically never see the sun except through the windows at work (and when I take a walk at lunch). Sunrise at the winter solstice is roughly 8:39am, and sunset is at 16:26. It’s deep into the dark by the time I get home.
Sticking to DST means that the sun rises at 9:39, which means it’s no difference to me since I’m already waking up in the dark, but sunset is at 1726, meaning that I at least get to watch it go down as I drive home, and have some dusk as I’m out and about.
As someone who lives in Vancouver, BC, I’m all for sticking with DST year ‘round. While it means that the morning commute will be dark, it’s dark already. Sticking to DST year ‘round means that i’ll At least have some dusk and natural light for the drive home, or even when I’m at home after work.
Of course we still have these places-- lots of them. They're just not called "sanitoriums". They're called nursing homes, or IMD's (Institutions for Mental Disease), or ICF's (Intermediate Care Facilities), or other things.
Actually, for the most part they're called prisons. A disproportionate number of those incarcerated suffer from either diagnosed or undiagnosed mental illness. It's a toxic witches brew of politicians not wanting to appear to be "soft on crime", public apathy, and in the case of the United States private prisons doing their best to keep the money flowing.
The main problem with the loss of the headphone jack isn't that there's no way to plug in wired headphones. You can, after all, get adapters that let you plug corded headphones into the lightning port. The problem isn't even charging while using wired headphones, because you can buy adapters for three bucks that solve that problem, unlike the stock Apple version.
I dunno, my apple dongle lives in the pouch that came with my earbuds, along with my two-pin airline adapter (though I haven't needed that in a few years, thankfully). Keeping the buds in the pouch keeps the cord safe and free of tangles, so even without the dongle, I'd be normally carrying the earbuds in it anyway. Heck, the pouch has a little mesh pocket to store replacement ear foamies, which also holds the adapters just fine.
For values of probably synonymous with "yes".
This would be a radical departure for the way that they've operated for the last 30 years. I have never once seen them deny warranty service like this, unless the part itself is the likely cause of the fault. I've brought in my MBP with all its mods and so forth, and never had an issue despite it being about as heavily modified as is possible (it's prior to the current crop of Retina machines).
Yeah, doesn't quite work that way.
Back when my MBP was under AppleCare, they were fine doing motherboard/screen/battery repairs under the warranty, even though I had modified my laptop about as much as you can... Maxed the ram, gone dual storage (SSD + mechanical disk).
They never batted an eye, except when the hard drive crapped out. At that point they wouldn't replace it when it was in the CD->HDD carrier, so I moved it back to the HD bay and they were fine dealing with it.
He always sort of reminded me of Zaphod Beeblebrox. Now hand me a pan galactic gargleblaster so I can end my miserable mind.
It's a good thing that Jet fuel isn't that flammable. Since the tragedy of Swiss air fuel explosion, airliners are equipped with inerting systems that fill the void in fuel tanks with nitrogen rather than with standard air. You can shoot tracer rounds through a half full tank and it won't ignite.