That 'low res' screen will still look very good, and is way better than most people are used to from current generation of devices (yep, super resolution screens are better, but you really need to put them side-by-side for the difference to be obvious).
It is what is happening on the display that will make or break this, not whether geeks get a stiffy over it's pixel-count.
... It is only useless if you have a criminal intent.
For those of us who do not actually want to abuse this leak, but instead learn from it, this is a great source of data! It shows just how *****ingly clueless most people are when it comes to creating a password. It shows how getting a bit smarter makes your password harder to crack, but still vulnerable to dictionary+statistical attacks. It shows how 100% random is probably the way to go for anything of value.
Same criticism was levelled at IDE, PCI and USB, hell even at VHS..
Yet their ubiquity means they were used extensively for years, while 'superior' alternatives have come and gone and are almost forgotten now. It takes a real change of technology to obsolete them (like DVD did for VHS, or SATA for IDE).
HDMI is simple, convenient, bundled into most production chipsets and works well for normal folks, it will be around for ages, deal with it.
My phone came with a docking stand with a HDMI out connector on the back, seems straightforward enough.
"requires you have an HDMI capable screen where you want to set down and work, meaning for most applications it is unfeasible outside of the home"
I look at the back of my monitor @work. HDMI socket Then I look at the back of my colleagues Monitors (not all the same make/model, but all under 3 years old). HDMI sockets
HDMI is now so ubiquitous that that argument does not hold water.
"Would this mean carbon dating is inaccurate for items older than 1300 years? "
No; RC dating uses lots of correction tables to account for events like this (this is not the only such event, just the biggest one that is not explained) and for natural/cyclic variations in C14. So the effects of this will already be catered for when computing dates; it's just the 'WTF' of the event itself being discussed here.
There isn't a PC in existence that's a business that makes money selling private details about people.
Tell that to all the people who have had their life hijacked after falling for a malware scam... But I guess that is done by 'cybercriminals' and you are not being paid to schill against them.
... And it's not illegal for many governments to force ISP's and telco to install no-warrent-required sniffers on all your telecoms.
One is HUGE threat to our whole society.
The other was (at very worst) a dumb attempt by a single engineer to bulild the most 'leet wardriving map ever!' piggybacked on a quite legit (and helpful to users by makign GPS work much faster) publically broadcast ssid collecting effort.
Nothing to see here, nothing of note was taken, claims it was a seriuous attempt to intrude on anybody are laughable and most journalists writing on this subject are technically illiterate and working to a script.
A commercially derived attack from paid-for representatives of Googles opposition. If this is the best they can come up with after millions of dollars paid funding groups set up as sockpuppet attack dogs then I'm happy to define Google as safe.
Yawn.
(PS: I'm more concerned about why they are kept under such universal pressure from the MIC, presumably it's to force them to allow the Military/Right to snoop on Google's commercial, worryingly broad, data.)
Seriously; it has a atmosphere thousands of miles thick, with a fuzzy, boiling edge..
The margin of error on this is ludicrous.
Plus.. of course, it is continually boiling itself off onto space, so even if you could define a 'hard edge' to it, your measurements would become worthless in, say, a few million years;-)
"So remind me again which one of us is supposedly trolling?" Errr.. Well, since you asked for it; here is a reminder: - Task for Today: Troll as a illiberal jerk. - Task for tomorrow: Same as for today. .. and repeat ad nauseum until you either grow up, or get a social conscience.
@cbiltcliffe; Really really sorry for calling you a sockpuppet of this idiot!
"Awww, apparently I hurt somebody's feelings! I'd apologize, but then, I'm a trolling jerk" - There, fixed it for ya.
Two things spring to mind. 1) 2 years later, and you're still trolling the same topic.. how sad is that? 2) You wrote the GP post anyway.. your postings from 2 years ago are, lets face it, not memorable to anyone but yourself.
Modern planes, and other transport/engineering structures, are moving to composites. Which are layered, printed, sometimes pressure baked and squeezed into form. But no longer forged on this scale.
While these machines are awesome, I've wandered along a car body stamping line and watched plates go from a flat sheet to a car door in 100meters, they are becoming less necessary to us. They will still be needed, of course, for some jobs where only such a monster can help, but I think the US should look on these as potential future museum pieces, with nostalgia for a bygone age of megaengineering, rather than a source of future industrial dominance.
they're not going to be using a whole lot of broadcasting power.
I would not bet on that.. People, especially avaricious types, tend to buy the most powerful kit they can.. And since the cheapest jammers will be the ones that substitute power for subtlety I suspect there will be a 'evolutionary' phase as the more stupid jammers users learn the hard way about this. Eventually word will get about and it will become a more localised an intermittent issue.
It seems that people living in areas where -30C is common are rather good at dealing with the challenges of gasoline/diesel engines at those temperatures.
Some places, especially in the northern soviet states, have had what look like 'charging points' along the street for decades. Your car has a simple heater circuit in the cooling fluid (and sometimes ones on the fuel system and in the cabin too) to stop any terminal freezing of the coolant etc.. and give it a better chance of starting. Everybody plugs in on a winter night.
So a Tesla could be bricked by a failed battery but it is tolerant to a failure of individual cells.
No.. A Tesla cannot be bricked by a failed battery. It is merely a Tesla with a flat battery.. nothing more.
Terminology here is quite important, the negative word 'bricked' is being used to try and transfer a operator failure (running out of battery) into a criticism of the product itself.
Who influential stands to make a profit from this? Not Bill Gates. So who are you talking about?
Err.. well, definately "Not Bill Gates".. He made his money through software monopolies not sewage monopolies, so I guess they are talking about, you know, other people.. ie the ones who want to maintain their monopoly on the provision of sewage infrastructure. In this case Bill is behaving as a good guy and deserves credit.
Yep.. they go out on Friday and are collected on Sunday, dead handy for the Friday night party crowd and much better than having desperate and partied-out people pissing in doorways.
Behind those doorways is a city with sufficient toilets backed by a infrastructure that, although aging, still works and is being improved.
Do you realise how much of the worlds population earns less than that a day? let alone an hour? Such people exist even in America.
it's just a scheme to allow the rich folks kids to buy bad behaviour and keep the poor ones in their place. In other words an extension of the whole American Dream.
Problem is, consider two groups: The Popular Jocks. Us Geeks.
Now.. which group do you think freely flouts the rules but hardly ever gets 'charged' (in the most literal sense) for it....and which group gets all the 'enforcement' attention.
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That 'low res' screen will still look very good, and is way better than most people are used to from current generation of devices (yep, super resolution screens are better, but you really need to put them side-by-side for the difference to be obvious).
It is what is happening on the display that will make or break this, not whether geeks get a stiffy over it's pixel-count.
... It is only useless if you have a criminal intent.
For those of us who do not actually want to abuse this leak, but instead learn from it, this is a great source of data!
It shows just how *****ingly clueless most people are when it comes to creating a password.
It shows how getting a bit smarter makes your password harder to crack, but still vulnerable to dictionary+statistical attacks.
It shows how 100% random is probably the way to go for anything of value.
Same criticism was levelled at IDE, PCI and USB, hell even at VHS..
Yet their ubiquity means they were used extensively for years, while 'superior' alternatives have come and gone and are almost forgotten now. It takes a real change of technology to obsolete them (like DVD did for VHS, or SATA for IDE).
HDMI is simple, convenient, bundled into most production chipsets and works well for normal folks, it will be around for ages, deal with it.
"That's way too fiddly for most though"
My phone came with a docking stand with a HDMI out connector on the back, seems straightforward enough.
"requires you have an HDMI capable screen where you want to set down and work, meaning for most applications it is unfeasible outside of the home"
I look at the back of my monitor @work.
HDMI socket
Then I look at the back of my colleagues Monitors (not all the same make/model, but all under 3 years old).
HDMI sockets
HDMI is now so ubiquitous that that argument does not hold water.
See comment by peppepz below, cludgy workarounds only available to geeks != freedom for the masses
"Would this mean carbon dating is inaccurate for items older than 1300 years? "
No; RC dating uses lots of correction tables to account for events like this (this is not the only such event, just the biggest one that is not explained) and for natural/cyclic variations in C14. So the effects of this will already be catered for when computing dates; it's just the 'WTF' of the event itself being discussed here.
There isn't a PC in existence that's a business that makes money selling private details about people.
Tell that to all the people who have had their life hijacked after falling for a malware scam. .. But I guess that is done by 'cybercriminals' and you are not being paid to schill against them.
... And it's not illegal for many governments to force ISP's and telco to install no-warrent-required sniffers on all your telecoms.
One is HUGE threat to our whole society.
The other was (at very worst) a dumb attempt by a single engineer to bulild the most 'leet wardriving map ever!' piggybacked on a quite legit (and helpful to users by makign GPS work much faster) publically broadcast ssid collecting effort.
I can spot the difference.. can you?
Nothing to see here, nothing of note was taken, claims it was a seriuous attempt to intrude on anybody are laughable and most journalists writing on this subject are technically illiterate and working to a script.
A commercially derived attack from paid-for representatives of Googles opposition. If this is the best they can come up with after millions of dollars paid funding groups set up as sockpuppet attack dogs then I'm happy to define Google as safe.
Yawn.
(PS: I'm more concerned about why they are kept under such universal pressure from the MIC, presumably it's to force them to allow the Military/Right to snoop on Google's commercial, worryingly broad, data.)
Seriously; it has a atmosphere thousands of miles thick, with a fuzzy, boiling edge..
The margin of error on this is ludicrous.
Plus.. of course, it is continually boiling itself off onto space, so even if you could define a 'hard edge' to it, your measurements would become worthless in, say, a few million years ;-)
"So remind me again which one of us is supposedly trolling?"
.. and repeat ad nauseum until you either grow up, or get a social conscience.
Errr..
Well, since you asked for it; here is a reminder:
- Task for Today: Troll as a illiberal jerk.
- Task for tomorrow: Same as for today.
@cbiltcliffe;
Really really sorry for calling you a sockpuppet of this idiot!
"Awww, apparently I hurt somebody's feelings! I'd apologize, but then, I'm a trolling jerk"
- There, fixed it for ya.
Two things spring to mind.
1) 2 years later, and you're still trolling the same topic.. how sad is that?
2) You wrote the GP post anyway.. your postings from 2 years ago are, lets face it, not memorable to anyone but yourself.
Modern planes, and other transport/engineering structures, are moving to composites. Which are layered, printed, sometimes pressure baked and squeezed into form. But no longer forged on this scale.
While these machines are awesome, I've wandered along a car body stamping line and watched plates go from a flat sheet to a car door in 100meters, they are becoming less necessary to us. They will still be needed, of course, for some jobs where only such a monster can help, but I think the US should look on these as potential future museum pieces, with nostalgia for a bygone age of megaengineering, rather than a source of future industrial dominance.
"Why should they have to apologize to them"
One of the ways society identifies shit people, and their fanbois, is by the way they never apologise or show any signs of remorse.
Your whole screed is based on completely not understanding what "Anonymous" is. So learn. And, until you learn, don't make such stupid remarks.
He has no intention of getting smarter or learning. It's not on the agenda he has been told to follow.
they're not going to be using a whole lot of broadcasting power.
I would not bet on that.. People, especially avaricious types, tend to buy the most powerful kit they can.. And since the cheapest jammers will be the ones that substitute power for subtlety I suspect there will be a 'evolutionary' phase as the more stupid jammers users learn the hard way about this.
Eventually word will get about and it will become a more localised an intermittent issue.
What did Tesla charge that guy $45,000 for, then? A recharge?
No.. stupidity and gullibility...
It seems that people living in areas where -30C is common are rather good at dealing with the challenges of gasoline/diesel engines at those temperatures.
Some places, especially in the northern soviet states, have had what look like 'charging points' along the street for decades. Your car has a simple heater circuit in the cooling fluid (and sometimes ones on the fuel system and in the cabin too) to stop any terminal freezing of the coolant etc.. and give it a better chance of starting. Everybody plugs in on a winter night.
So a Tesla could be bricked by a failed battery but it is tolerant to a failure of individual cells.
No.. A Tesla cannot be bricked by a failed battery. It is merely a Tesla with a flat battery.. nothing more.
Terminology here is quite important, the negative word 'bricked' is being used to try and transfer a operator failure (running out of battery) into a criticism of the product itself.
Who influential stands to make a profit from this? Not Bill Gates. So who are you talking about?
Err.. well, definately "Not Bill Gates".. He made his money through software monopolies not sewage monopolies, so I guess they are talking about, you know, other people.. ie the ones who want to maintain their monopoly on the provision of sewage infrastructure. In this case Bill is behaving as a good guy and deserves credit.
Yep.. they go out on Friday and are collected on Sunday, dead handy for the Friday night party crowd and much better than having desperate and partied-out people pissing in doorways.
Behind those doorways is a city with sufficient toilets backed by a infrastructure that, although aging, still works and is being improved.
the fines are relatively small
Do you realise how much of the worlds population earns less than that a day? let alone an hour? Such people exist even in America.
it's just a scheme to allow the rich folks kids to buy bad behaviour and keep the poor ones in their place. In other words an extension of the whole American Dream.
Problem is, consider two groups: The Popular Jocks. Us Geeks.
Now.. which group do you think freely flouts the rules but hardly ever gets 'charged' (in the most literal sense) for it. ...and which group gets all the 'enforcement' attention.
- if so, they should be arrested.
You mean, by the sherrif that TFA says was present? I guess, since they are still free, that thuis was not the case. Jerk.
Well said; just what I was thinking but more coherent :-)
A security policy that still allows users to install software in the userland is not 'locked down'.