The only place I have seen anything resembling porn is in dodgy ads on sites that wouldn't be able to get more legitimate advertisers due to the content of those sites (like the kind of sites that let you watch the latest TV...:)
I have no idea how reliable the numbers are but the information out there suggests something like the Terrafugia Transition will get 35mpg in car mode and 21.4mpg in flight, a fair bit better than the 15 or so mpg I see quoted for the Hummer.
And I bet the Rotax 912 engine they are using is probably not the most fuel efficient 4-cylinder engine on the face of the planet (meaning there is possibly room for improvement on those figures)
Its got nothing to do with exactly what technology is being used to provide internet service and everything to do with making sure any new players who want to come in and compete with the big boys don't get that chance. And it all comes down to content.
All of these big ISPs know that if these new players come in, they will not only take away the revenue from the internet side of things but they will take away the far more lucrative TV revenue. Even more so for those ISPs like Comcast or AT&T who actually own content producers and channels rather than just cable platforms.
Why aren't we seeing more plug-in series hybrids in the style of the Chevrolet Volt? Just build an EV with a smaller battery pack and stick a small ICE powered generator under the hood to charge it when the battery runs out (have no connections between the ICE and the wheels and have the ICE and generator paired so the ICE will run at peak efficiency and use the least fuel possible)
I too get a lot of recommendations from content creators that are far from "mainstream media". Some are fairly large in their own right like LinusTechTips but many are still fairly small and definitely "indie". (channels like LGR or 8BitGuy).
Here in Australia they banned single-use plastic bags (at least most states have now done it) and the supermarkets adapted. They sell a range of reusable bags that are made out of strong material and last for many many uses as well as providing a thicker plastic bag that is thicker than the old bags and reusable multiple times.
So there should be no reason why a ban on single use plastic bags has to be a problem or why supermarkets would have any reason to use paper bags as a substitute for single use plastic bags instead of going with the aforementioned thicker reusable plastic bags.
Oracle is FAR more evil (both in this case and in general) than Google is. And the harm to software development more generally if Oracle wins could be very bad.
Even if you could somehow get enough countries to agree to impose sanctions against China to actually hurt the Chinese, you would never be able to convince the Chinese to move away from coal by a large enough amount to make a real difference to global emissions.
If you use a password or code to unlock your encrypted devices and data then (according to quite a few different court rulings) you are protected by the 5th amendment and can't be forced to give up the password or code (although exactly how far that protection extends depends on which court ruling(s) apply in your jurisdiction). No such protection exists when it comes to things like fingerprint or facial recognition or other biometrics.
Plus its a lot easier for bad guys (whoever they may be) to defeat biometrics. Not only are there all sorts of examples of how to defeat fingerprint recognition (including the Mythbusters busting all the fingerprint scanners they tried) but its a lot easier for a bad guy who wants to get at your data to grab you, grab your device and force your finger onto the sensor (or hold your face in the right place for the facial recognition to work) than it is for those same bad guys to force you to give up your secret code.
I personally do not use biometrics for anything (actually there is one place I do volunteer work at where they use a fingerprint scanner to scan people in and out but that's not for security, its only so they can verify who is in the building if something goes wrong) and will not do so in the future if I can avoid it (e.g. if my next phone has biometrics I will turn it off and not use it)
All that needs to happen is to repeal all the laws, deals etc (at various levels of government) that prevents or restricts new players from entering the market (be they government run, community run, not-for-profit, for-profit or otherwise). That includes things that allow the incumbents to tie things up in court and deny the new players until they give up.
If you have proper competition against the last-century dinosaurs and the market is truly unrestricted, new players will emerge that offer the service people want but can't get from the aforementioned dinosaurs and the market will sort itself out.
When Microsoft got hit by the EU with the whole browser choice thing etc, they had a near-monopoly on desktop operating systems (in terms of the percentage of desktop computers that were running Windows as compared to Linux or OSX or other things).
Google on the other hand does NOT have a monopoly in the mobile OS space (unless the hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there as well as those like the Kindle devices running a non-Google fork of Android without all the Google bits and the few others still running things like Windows or Blackberry all dont count).
There is no way in hell the governments of this world would allow Boeing to go bust. Far too many Boeing products out there that need ongoing support (spare parts, software fixes and all the other stuff) not to mention all the jobs that would be lost.
Obviously you need Windows 10 for the Windows Store UWP version but I haven't seen anything out there specifying the minumum version of Windows that the Steam version will require.
In regards to email, the problem Spotify has is that there is a rule whereby a developer of an iOS app is not allowed to provide information to those users about methods of payment for digital services that don't go through Apple. And this rule apparently means Spotify can't email anyone who has ever used the iOS app if those emails contain information on how to buy anything from Spotify.
Ok so the US is concerned that Huawei gear could be used to spy. The question I have is, why the hell is data (government or otherwise) being sent over cellular networks in a way that compromised gear (regardless of manufacturer) could steal it?
What data (intelligence or otherwise) are the US scared the Chinese might steal and why would it be sent over any networks without encryption?
Given how big they are in other countries like Australia and many European countries, I am surprised that a giant like SpecSavers hasn't tried to come into the US market and complete.
If SpecSavers came into the US market with the same cheap glasses they offer here in Australia they could probably easily capture a huge market share.
This guy needs to read some good Bruce Schineer books like Data and Goliath and Click here to Kill Everybody. Then maybe these idiots will understand that if their goal is to catch bad guys (i.e. people who are out to commit things like terrorist attacks or mass murders or the other things the FBI is meant to be trying to stop) back-door access to encrypted devices isn't going to help (and in fact can make that job harder in some cases as well as increasing the risk that things like cyberattacks will occur)
That of course assumes the FBI wants to catch bad guys and terrorists and mass murders and stuff rather than turn into a 21st century version of the old soviet secret police where everyone is assumed to be guilty even when proven innocent in a court...
The movie theater I go to for most of my movies (because its the cheapest in town) has a 25 meter screen with top of the line Barco Laser Projection. Good luck getting THAT in a home theater unless you are super-rich.
Truck drivers are generally only allowed to drive a certain amount of time before they have to take a break and rest. If Telsa can put a big enough battery in the truck to last the full distance before the driver has to pull over (or close enough) and build these super-fast superchargers at truck stops everywhere so the driver can pull in, plug in and take their break before moving on, I bet the Telsa Truck will be popular. (I dont know all that much about long haul trucking but I do know that an electric truck that has much lower fuel and maintanence costs than a conventional diesel-powered big-rig will definitely get people interested)
I send Cloudflare a DMCA take down notification a while back (someone was illegally hosting a copy of some of our source code that had been leaked) and it seemed to work.
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The only place I have seen anything resembling porn is in dodgy ads on sites that wouldn't be able to get more legitimate advertisers due to the content of those sites (like the kind of sites that let you watch the latest TV... :)
The DOJ actually blocked the AT&T/Warner merger but were overruled by the courts.
I have no idea how reliable the numbers are but the information out there suggests something like the Terrafugia Transition will get 35mpg in car mode and 21.4mpg in flight, a fair bit better than the 15 or so mpg I see quoted for the Hummer.
And I bet the Rotax 912 engine they are using is probably not the most fuel efficient 4-cylinder engine on the face of the planet (meaning there is possibly room for improvement on those figures)
Its got nothing to do with exactly what technology is being used to provide internet service and everything to do with making sure any new players who want to come in and compete with the big boys don't get that chance. And it all comes down to content.
All of these big ISPs know that if these new players come in, they will not only take away the revenue from the internet side of things but they will take away the far more lucrative TV revenue. Even more so for those ISPs like Comcast or AT&T who actually own content producers and channels rather than just cable platforms.
Why aren't we seeing more plug-in series hybrids in the style of the Chevrolet Volt? Just build an EV with a smaller battery pack and stick a small ICE powered generator under the hood to charge it when the battery runs out (have no connections between the ICE and the wheels and have the ICE and generator paired so the ICE will run at peak efficiency and use the least fuel possible)
I too get a lot of recommendations from content creators that are far from "mainstream media". Some are fairly large in their own right like LinusTechTips but many are still fairly small and definitely "indie". (channels like LGR or 8BitGuy).
Here in Australia they banned single-use plastic bags (at least most states have now done it) and the supermarkets adapted. They sell a range of reusable bags that are made out of strong material and last for many many uses as well as providing a thicker plastic bag that is thicker than the old bags and reusable multiple times.
So there should be no reason why a ban on single use plastic bags has to be a problem or why supermarkets would have any reason to use paper bags as a substitute for single use plastic bags instead of going with the aforementioned thicker reusable plastic bags.
Oracle is FAR more evil (both in this case and in general) than Google is.
And the harm to software development more generally if Oracle wins could be very bad.
Even if you could somehow get enough countries to agree to impose sanctions against China to actually hurt the Chinese, you would never be able to convince the Chinese to move away from coal by a large enough amount to make a real difference to global emissions.
If you use a password or code to unlock your encrypted devices and data then (according to quite a few different court rulings) you are protected by the 5th amendment and can't be forced to give up the password or code (although exactly how far that protection extends depends on which court ruling(s) apply in your jurisdiction). No such protection exists when it comes to things like fingerprint or facial recognition or other biometrics.
Plus its a lot easier for bad guys (whoever they may be) to defeat biometrics. Not only are there all sorts of examples of how to defeat fingerprint recognition (including the Mythbusters busting all the fingerprint scanners they tried) but its a lot easier for a bad guy who wants to get at your data to grab you, grab your device and force your finger onto the sensor (or hold your face in the right place for the facial recognition to work) than it is for those same bad guys to force you to give up your secret code.
I personally do not use biometrics for anything (actually there is one place I do volunteer work at where they use a fingerprint scanner to scan people in and out but that's not for security, its only so they can verify who is in the building if something goes wrong) and will not do so in the future if I can avoid it (e.g. if my next phone has biometrics I will turn it off and not use it)
All that needs to happen is to repeal all the laws, deals etc (at various levels of government) that prevents or restricts new players from entering the market (be they government run, community run, not-for-profit, for-profit or otherwise). That includes things that allow the incumbents to tie things up in court and deny the new players until they give up.
If you have proper competition against the last-century dinosaurs and the market is truly unrestricted, new players will emerge that offer the service people want but can't get from the aforementioned dinosaurs and the market will sort itself out.
When Microsoft got hit by the EU with the whole browser choice thing etc, they had a near-monopoly on desktop operating systems (in terms of the percentage of desktop computers that were running Windows as compared to Linux or OSX or other things).
Google on the other hand does NOT have a monopoly in the mobile OS space (unless the hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there as well as those like the Kindle devices running a non-Google fork of Android without all the Google bits and the few others still running things like Windows or Blackberry all dont count).
Actually, the Australian government banned Huawei kit from being used in the National Broadband Network (probably at the behest of the US)
I wish Australia would stop being the lap dogs of the US and doing stuff just because the US happens to want us to do it.
Its 2019, why would anyone even be storing passwords in plaintext (or reversible encryption) instead of using password hashes?
There is no way in hell the governments of this world would allow Boeing to go bust. Far too many Boeing products out there that need ongoing support (spare parts, software fixes and all the other stuff) not to mention all the jobs that would be lost.
Obviously you need Windows 10 for the Windows Store UWP version but I haven't seen anything out there specifying the minumum version of Windows that the Steam version will require.
In regards to email, the problem Spotify has is that there is a rule whereby a developer of an iOS app is not allowed to provide information to those users about methods of payment for digital services that don't go through Apple. And this rule apparently means Spotify can't email anyone who has ever used the iOS app if those emails contain information on how to buy anything from Spotify.
Ok so the US is concerned that Huawei gear could be used to spy.
The question I have is, why the hell is data (government or otherwise) being sent over cellular networks in a way that compromised gear (regardless of manufacturer) could steal it?
What data (intelligence or otherwise) are the US scared the Chinese might steal and why would it be sent over any networks without encryption?
Given how big they are in other countries like Australia and many European countries, I am surprised that a giant like SpecSavers hasn't tried to come into the US market and complete.
If SpecSavers came into the US market with the same cheap glasses they offer here in Australia they could probably easily capture a huge market share.
This guy needs to read some good Bruce Schineer books like Data and Goliath and Click here to Kill Everybody. Then maybe these idiots will understand that if their goal is to catch bad guys (i.e. people who are out to commit things like terrorist attacks or mass murders or the other things the FBI is meant to be trying to stop) back-door access to encrypted devices isn't going to help (and in fact can make that job harder in some cases as well as increasing the risk that things like cyberattacks will occur)
That of course assumes the FBI wants to catch bad guys and terrorists and mass murders and stuff rather than turn into a 21st century version of the old soviet secret police where everyone is assumed to be guilty even when proven innocent in a court...
The movie theater I go to for most of my movies (because its the cheapest in town) has a 25 meter screen with top of the line Barco Laser Projection. Good luck getting THAT in a home theater unless you are super-rich.
Truck drivers are generally only allowed to drive a certain amount of time before they have to take a break and rest.
If Telsa can put a big enough battery in the truck to last the full distance before the driver has to pull over (or close enough) and build these super-fast superchargers at truck stops everywhere so the driver can pull in, plug in and take their break before moving on, I bet the Telsa Truck will be popular. (I dont know all that much about long haul trucking but I do know that an electric truck that has much lower fuel and maintanence costs than a conventional diesel-powered big-rig will definitely get people interested)
The Model X is hardly unique in terms of being labeled an "SUV" even though it has no off-road capability and no roof racks and no towing...
Comparing Australia (where I live) to countries like North Korea, China and others that are far less free is wrong.
I send Cloudflare a DMCA take down notification a while back (someone was illegally hosting a copy of some of our source code that had been leaked) and it seemed to work.