I just converted my home stereo system from entirely analog, with piles of RCA cables running everywhere, to HDMI/TOSLink. I thought it was going to be very hard to get everything together; but it was quite the opposite. I replaced a gallon-ziploc bag STUFFED full of RCA cables with about 5 HDMI cables and a couple of TOSLink cables. Took a couple of hours to do the switchover, and everything just worked. So it IS possible to move forward without having to rewrite the entire U.S. Constitution... I swore it would be 50 years before the last RCA jack disappeared from audio/video gear; but now I'm not so sure. More like 10-15 years at MOST. Time marches on... You can either march too, or get trampled. That's just the way it is with everything, and even more so with electronics.
I'm curious how you could do that?
The only devices I have with HDMI are the Bluray player and the TV.
The XBOX 360 has an optical audio out.
But all the other equipment is RCA only, both for video and audio. I'm talking about the Wii, a turntable, a tapedeck, a CD player, the small 3.5mm to RCA lead we use to plug phone/tablets/mp3 players in the receiver (no pairing, no lost connection, no authentication problem... Instant plug and play).
Where can you find a turntable with a TOSLINK out? Or a tapedeck with TOSLINK in/out?
At least you have assigned parking. Here in the city you park your car on the street, trying to find a parking place when getting home after work can be a challenge. You can be parked a block or two, away from your appartment, sometimes on another street.
And that's in summer. In winter it's a nightmare...
Will the city install hundred of thousands of charging stations on the residential streets? Otherwise there's no way we can have electric cars.
My bank graciously offered to turn off the feature on my card, from their end, not mine. Which, if you know anything about how these hacks work, means that they're willing to take away all the convenience of the feature, while carefully maintaining the security risks on my card. I declined and cut the antenna instead.
You clearly don't know anything about this, because if the bank flags your account with contactless disabled, since they're the ones who autorize EVERY transactions, they will decline any attempt at doing a contactless transaction with your card number.
If the bad guys do get the information from your card, what can they do with it?
Cloning the chip is not possible right now (and they would need a lot more than just the card number and expiration date, there's a lot of crypto on the chip with private and public keys), and the information broadcasted by the chip is not sufficient to mock up a magstripe.
Most websites ask for the CVV (the number on the back of the card) which is not present on the chip, so can't be captured by this device.
So they can't do any transaction with this information, where is the risk?
But content isn't scarce anymore, so what's the point of permanence?
The point of permanence and ownership is that my kids and grandkids will be able to read any books I bought or listen to my vinyl and cd records collection for the next 50 years.
Even if some government decides that it's now banned, or it gets edited to remove non-PC parts, or ads and product placement get inserted into the streaming version, or the author decides that he doesn't want to distribute his work anymore, my version will always be the one I bought.
And the other point is that I can also re-sell what I bought.
Just the other day me and my girlfriend we went to a lot of garage sales, and one guy was selling books for 1$. Any book, very old, recent, paperback, big coffee table books, any one was 1$. We bought 21 of them. After reading them all, I'll give em away to family and friends, and keep some.
Can't do that with "licensed", "rented", "streaming", "online" stuff.
Suppose you want a human being to come and watch your pets while you travel, and you don't want to impose on your friends all the time. Why would a person take their valuable time to do you a favor? That's easy: you agree to pay the person.
Why pay for someone to watch your pet, when you can just toss it in the trash when you leave and replicate another one when you get home?
Braking: chose the higher value of the two, log an error if they differ by more than a given margin
That would be the way to go with "brake by wire", but so far cars on the road still have good old hydraulic brakes with vacuum assist, so you can measure the braking force (to activate ABS) but it will always be directly proportionnal to the force applied on the brake pedal.
And I hope that cars will keep hydraulic brakes for the future, I don't ever want a car with brake by wire!
The solution is simpler than that, OEM should be obligated to sell unlocked phones, and let the user install the vanilla Google Android version if he wants to.
No more awful customisation and uninstallable apps, and easy upgrades as soon as they're published by Google.
Only if you count all the out of date crap. I dont count ANY phone not running Android 6 as being a part of the "market" The crap level phones that run 4.x and 5.x just dont count.... unless we want to count all the apple phones stuck at out of date OS releases.
The PIN is entered on the pinpad, and checked by the chip on the card. The Windows machine behind all that never sees the PIN, the dialogue is only between those 2 components.
Even with magstripes, the PIN is encrypted by the pinpad, and again all the windows part of the ATM can see is this encrypted version.
I'm talking about ATMs from a big bank, maybe those small cash distributing machines (those who add 2$ fees to your 20$ withdrawal, yuck!) are much more vulnerable, but on our ATMs it's impossible for the windows machine to see or record the PIN.
Cool, I've been modded down by an open source zealot!
LibreOffice is OK for personnal use, or if your company or your university of whatever uses it. But most places uses MSOffice, and LibreOffice isn't 100% compatible, which means lots of trouble with formating and whatnot.
And at work we have really complex Excel spreadsheets, with macros and VBA. They totally fail to open in LibreOffice.
Maybe, but you can't use LibreOffice when working with anyone else in the world, because it's not 100% compatible with MS Office and will fuck up your documents.
I don't trust myself to carry a gun, because I'm an ordinary citizen without any training, and I don't want to carry the HUGE responsability that goes with the gun. I can get angry, I can loose my temper, I can take irrationnal decisions, and get scared for the wrong reasons, and all those things can get really interesting when you add a gun to the mix. So no, I don't trust myself carrying a gun everywhere I go.
I have a firearm (not a handgun), but it stays locked at home until I want to shoot at targets. I can operate a handgun and have used some from my friends at the shooting range, but I have no desire or need to buy one.
Maybe americans are easily scared and feel the need to be armed to the teeth?
The main reason people are not running Linux is that it is not pre-installed. And the next reason is that it is hard to install on modern machines, especially on laptops (which, as you should have heard, are more popular than desktops).
And the lack of games.
And the sloppy sleep/hibernate that doesn't always work.
And the little snags with hardware, like the touchpad that doesn't work at all.
And the reduced battery life.
And the poorly performing garphic drivers.
And the multitude of applications that are mostly crappy, and are poorly made clones of windows applications.
I just installed linux Mint on my step son's laptop (because we discovered that his windows license was invalid) and I was reminded of all these problems. Like trying to install the latest version of Java, which means downloading a.tar.gzip and installing it on the command line? WTF? We're in 2016, it should install by clicking on a link and entering root's password.
The FBI would like to unlock all those phones collecting dust in the evidence room...
Which got me thinking about a dead man's switch?
Apple could get the secure enclave to wipe the key and all data on the phone after a long period in the locked state?
Let's say after 2 months, if the phone hasn't been unlocked successfully you wipe the key and all data.
I would like something like that on my phone, so if it get stolen or lost I know that it will eventually wipe itself after some time (if I'm unable to do the remote wipe).
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I just converted my home stereo system from entirely analog, with piles of RCA cables running everywhere, to HDMI/TOSLink. I thought it was going to be very hard to get everything together; but it was quite the opposite. I replaced a gallon-ziploc bag STUFFED full of RCA cables with about 5 HDMI cables and a couple of TOSLink cables. Took a couple of hours to do the switchover, and everything just worked. So it IS possible to move forward without having to rewrite the entire U.S. Constitution... I swore it would be 50 years before the last RCA jack disappeared from audio/video gear; but now I'm not so sure. More like 10-15 years at MOST. Time marches on... You can either march too, or get trampled. That's just the way it is with everything, and even more so with electronics.
I'm curious how you could do that?
The only devices I have with HDMI are the Bluray player and the TV.
The XBOX 360 has an optical audio out.
But all the other equipment is RCA only, both for video and audio. I'm talking about the Wii, a turntable, a tapedeck, a CD player, the small 3.5mm to RCA lead we use to plug phone/tablets/mp3 players in the receiver (no pairing, no lost connection, no authentication problem... Instant plug and play).
Where can you find a turntable with a TOSLINK out? Or a tapedeck with TOSLINK in/out?
I'd simply refuse to enter
One less fucking moron with a phone on this show
No nanny state laws like banning smoking
Support for legal gun ownership for private self defense
Do you consider shooting someone who smokes indoor a valide self defense case?
Because I never want to endure smoking at work, in a bar, in a restaurant or in a plane. Been there, done that, and it sucks.
Some laws are "nanny state", others are necessary because some morons don't understand that forcing others to breathe toxic fumes is not a good thing.
Cakes aren't designed with the express purpose of killing things
I see that you've never read Asterix and Cleopatra...
At least you have assigned parking. Here in the city you park your car on the street, trying to find a parking place when getting home after work can be a challenge. You can be parked a block or two, away from your appartment, sometimes on another street.
And that's in summer. In winter it's a nightmare...
Will the city install hundred of thousands of charging stations on the residential streets? Otherwise there's no way we can have electric cars.
My bank graciously offered to turn off the feature on my card, from their end, not mine. Which, if you know anything about how these hacks work, means that they're willing to take away all the convenience of the feature, while carefully maintaining the security risks on my card. I declined and cut the antenna instead.
You clearly don't know anything about this, because if the bank flags your account with contactless disabled, since they're the ones who autorize EVERY transactions, they will decline any attempt at doing a contactless transaction with your card number.
If the bad guys do get the information from your card, what can they do with it?
Cloning the chip is not possible right now (and they would need a lot more than just the card number and expiration date, there's a lot of crypto on the chip with private and public keys), and the information broadcasted by the chip is not sufficient to mock up a magstripe.
Most websites ask for the CVV (the number on the back of the card) which is not present on the chip, so can't be captured by this device.
So they can't do any transaction with this information, where is the risk?
But content isn't scarce anymore, so what's the point of permanence?
The point of permanence and ownership is that my kids and grandkids will be able to read any books I bought or listen to my vinyl and cd records collection for the next 50 years.
Even if some government decides that it's now banned, or it gets edited to remove non-PC parts, or ads and product placement get inserted into the streaming version, or the author decides that he doesn't want to distribute his work anymore, my version will always be the one I bought.
And the other point is that I can also re-sell what I bought.
Just the other day me and my girlfriend we went to a lot of garage sales, and one guy was selling books for 1$. Any book, very old, recent, paperback, big coffee table books, any one was 1$. We bought 21 of them. After reading them all, I'll give em away to family and friends, and keep some.
Can't do that with "licensed", "rented", "streaming", "online" stuff.
Suppose you want a human being to come and watch your pets while you travel, and you don't want to impose on your friends all the time. Why would a person take their valuable time to do you a favor? That's easy: you agree to pay the person.
Why pay for someone to watch your pet, when you can just toss it in the trash when you leave and replicate another one when you get home?
What happens if someone shout "Hey Siri call an ambulance" in a crowded room full of iPhone 6?
Snapdragon 652 processor
I read that as "Snapdragon 6502 processor"
Braking: chose the higher value of the two, log an error if they differ by more than a given margin
That would be the way to go with "brake by wire", but so far cars on the road still have good old hydraulic brakes with vacuum assist, so you can measure the braking force (to activate ABS) but it will always be directly proportionnal to the force applied on the brake pedal.
And I hope that cars will keep hydraulic brakes for the future, I don't ever want a car with brake by wire!
A computer with windows is like a car with a gas engine. It's very popular, and you can find gas everywhere.
A Mac is like a car with a diesel engine (in North America), it's much less popular, and not all gas station have diesel.
A computer with linux is like a car with a propane engine. Good luck finding a propane distributor when you're away from big cities.
That's why people still buy windows PC, it's because 90% of software is made for this OS.
4K is not only higher resolution, but much wider color gamut as well.
Let's get together and create a new religion where we define Advertisements as hate speech.
Then they'll have to ban Ads.
The solution is simpler than that, OEM should be obligated to sell unlocked phones, and let the user install the vanilla Google Android version if he wants to.
No more awful customisation and uninstallable apps, and easy upgrades as soon as they're published by Google.
Uber is NOT ride sharing. Stop calling it that.
Only if you count all the out of date crap. I dont count ANY phone not running Android 6 as being a part of the "market" The crap level phones that run 4.x and 5.x just dont count.... unless we want to count all the apple phones stuck at out of date OS releases.
Android 5.x phones are out of date crap???
Lollipop is not even 2 years old!
Hipster, much?
The PIN is entered on the pinpad, and checked by the chip on the card. The Windows machine behind all that never sees the PIN, the dialogue is only between those 2 components.
Even with magstripes, the PIN is encrypted by the pinpad, and again all the windows part of the ATM can see is this encrypted version.
I'm talking about ATMs from a big bank, maybe those small cash distributing machines (those who add 2$ fees to your 20$ withdrawal, yuck!) are much more vulnerable, but on our ATMs it's impossible for the windows machine to see or record the PIN.
You'll have to pry my dead cold hands from the steering wheel, after I wrapped my car on a tree.
Then you can put my corpse in a self driving ambulance.
Cool, I've been modded down by an open source zealot!
LibreOffice is OK for personnal use, or if your company or your university of whatever uses it. But most places uses MSOffice, and LibreOffice isn't 100% compatible, which means lots of trouble with formating and whatnot.
And at work we have really complex Excel spreadsheets, with macros and VBA. They totally fail to open in LibreOffice.
LibreOffice works better than MS Office
Maybe, but you can't use LibreOffice when working with anyone else in the world, because it's not 100% compatible with MS Office and will fuck up your documents.
I don't trust myself to carry a gun, because I'm an ordinary citizen without any training, and I don't want to carry the HUGE responsability that goes with the gun. I can get angry, I can loose my temper, I can take irrationnal decisions, and get scared for the wrong reasons, and all those things can get really interesting when you add a gun to the mix. So no, I don't trust myself carrying a gun everywhere I go.
I have a firearm (not a handgun), but it stays locked at home until I want to shoot at targets. I can operate a handgun and have used some from my friends at the shooting range, but I have no desire or need to buy one.
Maybe americans are easily scared and feel the need to be armed to the teeth?
The main reason people are not running Linux is that it is not pre-installed. And the next reason is that it is hard to install on modern machines, especially on laptops (which, as you should have heard, are more popular than desktops).
And the lack of games.
And the sloppy sleep/hibernate that doesn't always work.
And the little snags with hardware, like the touchpad that doesn't work at all.
And the reduced battery life.
And the poorly performing garphic drivers.
And the multitude of applications that are mostly crappy, and are poorly made clones of windows applications.
I just installed linux Mint on my step son's laptop (because we discovered that his windows license was invalid) and I was reminded of all these problems. Like trying to install the latest version of Java, which means downloading a .tar.gzip and installing it on the command line? WTF? We're in 2016, it should install by clicking on a link and entering root's password.
The loss of my phone is of litte consequence to me, apart from the inconvinience of buying a new one and configuring/re-installing the apps.
The FBI would like to unlock all those phones collecting dust in the evidence room...
Which got me thinking about a dead man's switch?
Apple could get the secure enclave to wipe the key and all data on the phone after a long period in the locked state?
Let's say after 2 months, if the phone hasn't been unlocked successfully you wipe the key and all data.
I would like something like that on my phone, so if it get stolen or lost I know that it will eventually wipe itself after some time (if I'm unable to do the remote wipe).