The difference is that A.Keurig didn't force the new feature on existing machines in the way DJI seems to be doing and B.There are fewer direct competitors for Keurig than there are for DJI (so there are less options to vote with your wallet and buy an alternative that is just as good)
C and C++ aren't going anywhere. Everything from operating system kernels to operating theater robots are programmed in C and/or C++.
I count at least a dozen devices in my apartment that contain some sort of microprocessor and I would bet money that all of them are using C and/or C++ in some form as part of their software.
Anyone who thinks C or C++ is going away anytime soon is either a clueless idiot or has some vested interest in pushing Java and.NET.
The other factor is that (IIRC) Apple hold patents in the H.264/H.265 pools and its in their best interests to do everything they can to squash anything that might actually compete with those standards but doesn't earn Apple royalties on their patents...
My guess is that the requirements for the phone not being modified/rooted are tied to the Widevine DRM system, i.e. it will refuse to work on a rooted or modified or unapproved device.
The original NBN plan for fiber to the home (with the best available wireless and satellite technology for areas not easily reachable by fiber) would have delivered very fast speeds to a large chunk of the population.
Then we had a federal election and the Murdoch press ran a huge anti-NBN FUD campaign aimed at crippling the NBN in order to protect Foxtel (the main pay TV provider in Australia). There is a change of government and the new government (no doubt with Rupert lobbying away in the background) crippled the NBN by moving to a model that ditched the fiber to the home and replaced it with a mix of much crappier technologies including HFC cable and fiber to the node.
I strongly suspect that if the current government had kept the original NBN plans (or maybe made some small tweaks of the sort suggested by people in the industry) more people would have access to the network than is currently the case and less money would have been spent on it than has been spent to date.
The cracking of the Axis secret codes at Bletchly Park, OP-20-G and elsewhere during World War 2 showed the allied powers just how important being able to read the other guys stuff really was.
Then computers came along and the Russians, Chinese and other bad guys started using digital encryption and other security measures and the western powers (NSA in the US, GCHQ in the UK and others) continued to do whatever was necessary to break into those computers and steal all the secrets.
When mass market PCs came along and everyone started using the same hardware and software as everyone else, the agencies followed suit with attacks on and back doors into the computers the bad guys were using.
I recon the big tech companies should all get together and throw a bunch of lobbying money at world governments to get laws passed to stop the hoarding. I am sure there are enough people in Congress who would listen when big fat "political donations" are waved in their face in return for stopping the abuse of vulnerabilities in this way.
What needs to happen is to remove step 3 from the picture. Take control of Android devices away from carriers and do what Apple does and have OEMs (including Google with its own-branded phones) be 100% responsible for updates.
Plenty of times where an OEM has released an update but carriers (making up some BS excuse but who really just want you to buy a new phone) refuse to update their branded devices (or take months to actually follow the OEM with an update)
Thanks, I turned of SMB via the command lines given and I turned off NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
Since I dont connect my Windows PC to other Windows PCs (or to Linux machines running Samba or the like) I dont need SMB or NetBIOS and turning them off prevents all the exploits that involve SMB/NetBIOS from working.
I am on Windows 7 Home Premium and have all the patches Windows Update offers me (including "Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems" dated for May, April, March, January, December, November and October), am I patched?
Also, given how many exploits target these Microsoft networking protocols (NetBIOS, SMB etc) and given that I dont actually need to use these protocols for anything, is there a way to turn them off so they aren't exposed to the outside world?
Clearly you are not a video gamer if you think the "vast majority" of win32 software isn't demanding performance wise. Good luck writing a translation later, emulator, dynamic recompiler or other technology that can run, say, Fallout 4 on a W10ARM device. Or even something older or less resource demanding like Red Alert 3.
They have developed (and may be using) new containers for luggage and cargo that will contain any explosion and prevent it from causing any real damage to the plane. So on a flight using those new containers, a bomb in luggage is not a huge threat. But a bomb in the passenger compartment would be.
Anti-trust would only come into it if the AI has access to data that has been given to whichever station is using the AI by a competitor (if the AI is fed competitor pricing data because someone looked at the sign board and saw what the competitor is charging, that's fine, if the AI is fed competitor pricing data because the competitor directly gave it to the station using the AI, that's not fine, especially if the pricing data was given before the change was posted to the sign board)
Does anyone even launch spacecraft from California these days? I thought all space launches went from the launch complex in Florida or one of the new private space launch sites in places like Texas or Utah or wherever.
When I was a kid I had exposure to Basic and LOGO and a few other things but the first real programming I actually did would have been in Pascal (Turbo Pascal 6 if I remember correctly). These days most of my coding is in C and C++.
The most obscure thing I have ever programmed in would probably be assembly language for the 65816 CPU (an enhanced 16 bit version of the famous 6502 CPU). The main claim to fame for the 65816 was as the CPU in the Apple IIGS and also the CPU in the Super Nintendo (SNES ROM hacking is where I learned 65816 ASM)
Think about a big site like github.com. Imagine how many terabytes of pretty-printed source code and other things archive.org would be pulling were it to crawl all of GitHub. And that's just one site, there are many others that generate pretty-printed source code and other large things.
Or what about if it crawls Google and starts archiving all sorts of Google search URLs or Google maps URLs or whatever.
Just set a minimum wage for H-1B visas so anyone imported in via a H-1B visa costs more than hiring an American to do the job would have cost and most of the abuse of the system goes away.
Combine this with some sort of labor market testing so they cant bring in a foreign worker if there is an American capable of doing the job and 99% of the problems with H-1B visas go away. (if you do this right you can structure it to also avoid the situation where companies import foreign workers to train them up and send them back to their home country as cheap outsourced labor)
Doing this ensures that H-1B visas only get used when there is no American capable of doing the job (and the company can demonstrate they tried to find an American for the job first) or when they need a specific individual for some reason (and can prove there is no American with the necessary skills/experience/knowledge to do the job)
Will this solve every issue with H-1B visas? No. Will companies try to find loopholes? Yes. Would this be significantly better than doing nothing? Most definitely.
Here are a few regulations that should be implemented for AirBnB (or any other similar site): 1.It should be illegal for a tenant to list the property they are renting on AirBnB without explicit permission from the landlord. Landlords should have the power to evict tenants who list properties without permission. (this stops the problem with tenants who list the property on AirBnB without permission from the landlord in order to make some money). 2.It should be illegal to list any property that is covered by any kind of rent control, affordable housing, housing subsidy or similar scheme on AirBnB with strong penalties. (this stops the problem where the subsidized or controlled properties are listed on AirBnB by landlords looking to get more money than they would get via a long term rental) 3.Apartment building owners committees (or however things like that work in different jurisdictions) should (if they choose to do so) be allowed to add terms to the rules of the apartment building that restrict/limit/ban AirBnB with strong penalties for owners/tenants who break those rules. (this stops the problem where most owners in the building dont want AirBnB guests but a few owners are using their properties for AirBnB and causing problems) 4.All listings on AirBnB have to pay accomodation taxes. (avoids the complaint that AirBnB listings aren't paying the same taxes as hotels do) 5.It should be illegal to list properties that dont meet building codes or occupancy rules on AirBnB. (avoids the problem of properties that aren't fit to be lived in or properties that are being occupied by more people than is allowed by law being listed on AirBnB). 6.AirBnB should be required to collect and retain a full set of personal details from people wanting to list on their site and there should be penalties for anyone who supplies any kind of false information (helps avoid fraudsters using fake or stolen identities on the site) 6.There should be a limit on how many properties an individual (either properties owned by that individual or properties listed by that individual) can have on AirBnB. (this stops the people who buy half a building and stick it all on AirBnB from doing so but you could still rent out 7 bedrooms in a 7-bedroom house since that's a single property) 7.Any property that would in any way be illegal to offer as a long term rental for whatever reason would also be illegal to list on AirBnB. (including properties where they can only be legally rented out to certain types of individuals e.g. students or old people)
I have no idea if these regulations exist or not (and if they exist, which jurisdictions have them), they are just some sensible measures to stop some of the problems AirBnB is causing. And I see nothing in there that would be difficult for AirBnB or landlords to comply with.
As long as Uber doesn't make it mandatory to tip (and isn't forced to by new regulations or laws) and as long as they dont make tipping difficult to avoid or otherwise do things to make tipping seem like its required or something then I dont see the problem with allowing people who want to leave a tip via the Uber app to have a way to do that.
Its a joint creation of one of the best SF authors of all time (Arthur C Clarke) and one of the best filmmakers of all time (Stanley Kubrick). Lets hope this is one film Hollywood NEVER does a reboot/remake/redo of...
That said, there are a few Cyberpunk films that come close to topping my list (Johnny Mnemonic for one, also the TRON films) and if they ever make a good film based on the Neuromancer book, its going to be hard to pick between that an 2001...)
I got to use all kinds of computers belonging to the family over the years but the first computer that was actually mine and mine only (or at least the first one I can remember) was a 486 SLC33 powered PC. There were definatly PCs before then that I got to use and play with but the 486 was the first one I can remember that I actually owned.
Don't forget that the US now demands any carrier flying within US airspace (which would include that flight from YUL to MEX) has to hand over all sorts of crap to the US government about the passengers flying etc (and even not allow people on certain lists to fly on such flights).
Heck, even flights close to the US that don't cross the US land mass still get hit by a bunch of rules and regulations (and the airports in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are all close enough to the border that all flights out of them are likely affected)
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Except the whole point of HTTPS is that the government only knows you visited https://example.com/ and not which page on example.com you visited.
The difference is that A.Keurig didn't force the new feature on existing machines in the way DJI seems to be doing and B.There are fewer direct competitors for Keurig than there are for DJI (so there are less options to vote with your wallet and buy an alternative that is just as good)
C and C++ aren't going anywhere. Everything from operating system kernels to operating theater robots are programmed in C and/or C++.
I count at least a dozen devices in my apartment that contain some sort of microprocessor and I would bet money that all of them are using C and/or C++ in some form as part of their software.
Anyone who thinks C or C++ is going away anytime soon is either a clueless idiot or has some vested interest in pushing Java and .NET.
The other factor is that (IIRC) Apple hold patents in the H.264/H.265 pools and its in their best interests to do everything they can to squash anything that might actually compete with those standards but doesn't earn Apple royalties on their patents...
Too bad Apple refuses to even acknowledge the existence of AV-1, let alone talk about supporting it on Apple gear or in Apple software.
My guess is that the requirements for the phone not being modified/rooted are tied to the Widevine DRM system, i.e. it will refuse to work on a rooted or modified or unapproved device.
The original NBN plan for fiber to the home (with the best available wireless and satellite technology for areas not easily reachable by fiber) would have delivered very fast speeds to a large chunk of the population.
Then we had a federal election and the Murdoch press ran a huge anti-NBN FUD campaign aimed at crippling the NBN in order to protect Foxtel (the main pay TV provider in Australia). There is a change of government and the new government (no doubt with Rupert lobbying away in the background) crippled the NBN by moving to a model that ditched the fiber to the home and replaced it with a mix of much crappier technologies including HFC cable and fiber to the node.
I strongly suspect that if the current government had kept the original NBN plans (or maybe made some small tweaks of the sort suggested by people in the industry) more people would have access to the network than is currently the case and less money would have been spent on it than has been spent to date.
The cracking of the Axis secret codes at Bletchly Park, OP-20-G and elsewhere during World War 2 showed the allied powers just how important being able to read the other guys stuff really was.
Then computers came along and the Russians, Chinese and other bad guys started using digital encryption and other security measures and the western powers (NSA in the US, GCHQ in the UK and others) continued to do whatever was necessary to break into those computers and steal all the secrets.
When mass market PCs came along and everyone started using the same hardware and software as everyone else, the agencies followed suit with attacks on and back doors into the computers the bad guys were using.
I recon the big tech companies should all get together and throw a bunch of lobbying money at world governments to get laws passed to stop the hoarding. I am sure there are enough people in Congress who would listen when big fat "political donations" are waved in their face in return for stopping the abuse of vulnerabilities in this way.
Personally I would rather my system be running whatever crap MS has invented (spyware included) than be at risk of being infected with malware.
What needs to happen is to remove step 3 from the picture. Take control of Android devices away from carriers and do what Apple does and have OEMs (including Google with its own-branded phones) be 100% responsible for updates.
Plenty of times where an OEM has released an update but carriers (making up some BS excuse but who really just want you to buy a new phone) refuse to update their branded devices (or take months to actually follow the OEM with an update)
Thanks, I turned of SMB via the command lines given and I turned off NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
Since I dont connect my Windows PC to other Windows PCs (or to Linux machines running Samba or the like) I dont need SMB or NetBIOS and turning them off prevents all the exploits that involve SMB/NetBIOS from working.
I am on Windows 7 Home Premium and have all the patches Windows Update offers me (including "Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems" dated for May, April, March, January, December, November and October), am I patched?
Also, given how many exploits target these Microsoft networking protocols (NetBIOS, SMB etc) and given that I dont actually need to use these protocols for anything, is there a way to turn them off so they aren't exposed to the outside world?
Clearly you are not a video gamer if you think the "vast majority" of win32 software isn't demanding performance wise.
Good luck writing a translation later, emulator, dynamic recompiler or other technology that can run, say, Fallout 4 on a W10ARM device. Or even something older or less resource demanding like Red Alert 3.
They have developed (and may be using) new containers for luggage and cargo that will contain any explosion and prevent it from causing any real damage to the plane. So on a flight using those new containers, a bomb in luggage is not a huge threat. But a bomb in the passenger compartment would be.
Anti-trust would only come into it if the AI has access to data that has been given to whichever station is using the AI by a competitor (if the AI is fed competitor pricing data because someone looked at the sign board and saw what the competitor is charging, that's fine, if the AI is fed competitor pricing data because the competitor directly gave it to the station using the AI, that's not fine, especially if the pricing data was given before the change was posted to the sign board)
Does anyone even launch spacecraft from California these days? I thought all space launches went from the launch complex in Florida or one of the new private space launch sites in places like Texas or Utah or wherever.
When I was a kid I had exposure to Basic and LOGO and a few other things but the first real programming I actually did would have been in Pascal (Turbo Pascal 6 if I remember correctly). These days most of my coding is in C and C++.
The most obscure thing I have ever programmed in would probably be assembly language for the 65816 CPU (an enhanced 16 bit version of the famous 6502 CPU). The main claim to fame for the 65816 was as the CPU in the Apple IIGS and also the CPU in the Super Nintendo (SNES ROM hacking is where I learned 65816 ASM)
Think about a big site like github.com.
Imagine how many terabytes of pretty-printed source code and other things archive.org would be pulling were it to crawl all of GitHub.
And that's just one site, there are many others that generate pretty-printed source code and other large things.
Or what about if it crawls Google and starts archiving all sorts of Google search URLs or Google maps URLs or whatever.
Just set a minimum wage for H-1B visas so anyone imported in via a H-1B visa costs more than hiring an American to do the job would have cost and most of the abuse of the system goes away.
Combine this with some sort of labor market testing so they cant bring in a foreign worker if there is an American capable of doing the job and 99% of the problems with H-1B visas go away. (if you do this right you can structure it to also avoid the situation where companies import foreign workers to train them up and send them back to their home country as cheap outsourced labor)
Doing this ensures that H-1B visas only get used when there is no American capable of doing the job (and the company can demonstrate they tried to find an American for the job first) or when they need a specific individual for some reason (and can prove there is no American with the necessary skills/experience/knowledge to do the job)
Will this solve every issue with H-1B visas? No. Will companies try to find loopholes? Yes. Would this be significantly better than doing nothing? Most definitely.
Here are a few regulations that should be implemented for AirBnB (or any other similar site):
1.It should be illegal for a tenant to list the property they are renting on AirBnB without explicit permission from the landlord. Landlords should have the power to evict tenants who list properties without permission. (this stops the problem with tenants who list the property on AirBnB without permission from the landlord in order to make some money).
2.It should be illegal to list any property that is covered by any kind of rent control, affordable housing, housing subsidy or similar scheme on AirBnB with strong penalties. (this stops the problem where the subsidized or controlled properties are listed on AirBnB by landlords looking to get more money than they would get via a long term rental)
3.Apartment building owners committees (or however things like that work in different jurisdictions) should (if they choose to do so) be allowed to add terms to the rules of the apartment building that restrict/limit/ban AirBnB with strong penalties for owners/tenants who break those rules. (this stops the problem where most owners in the building dont want AirBnB guests but a few owners are using their properties for AirBnB and causing problems)
4.All listings on AirBnB have to pay accomodation taxes. (avoids the complaint that AirBnB listings aren't paying the same taxes as hotels do)
5.It should be illegal to list properties that dont meet building codes or occupancy rules on AirBnB. (avoids the problem of properties that aren't fit to be lived in or properties that are being occupied by more people than is allowed by law being listed on AirBnB).
6.AirBnB should be required to collect and retain a full set of personal details from people wanting to list on their site and there should be penalties for anyone who supplies any kind of false information (helps avoid fraudsters using fake or stolen identities on the site)
6.There should be a limit on how many properties an individual (either properties owned by that individual or properties listed by that individual) can have on AirBnB. (this stops the people who buy half a building and stick it all on AirBnB from doing so but you could still rent out 7 bedrooms in a 7-bedroom house since that's a single property)
7.Any property that would in any way be illegal to offer as a long term rental for whatever reason would also be illegal to list on AirBnB. (including properties where they can only be legally rented out to certain types of individuals e.g. students or old people)
I have no idea if these regulations exist or not (and if they exist, which jurisdictions have them), they are just some sensible measures to stop some of the problems AirBnB is causing.
And I see nothing in there that would be difficult for AirBnB or landlords to comply with.
As long as Uber doesn't make it mandatory to tip (and isn't forced to by new regulations or laws) and as long as they dont make tipping difficult to avoid or otherwise do things to make tipping seem like its required or something then I dont see the problem with allowing people who want to leave a tip via the Uber app to have a way to do that.
Its a joint creation of one of the best SF authors of all time (Arthur C Clarke) and one of the best filmmakers of all time (Stanley Kubrick). Lets hope this is one film Hollywood NEVER does a reboot/remake/redo of...
That said, there are a few Cyberpunk films that come close to topping my list (Johnny Mnemonic for one, also the TRON films) and if they ever make a good film based on the Neuromancer book, its going to be hard to pick between that an 2001...)
I got to use all kinds of computers belonging to the family over the years but the first computer that was actually mine and mine only (or at least the first one I can remember) was a 486 SLC33 powered PC. There were definatly PCs before then that I got to use and play with but the 486 was the first one I can remember that I actually owned.
Don't forget that the US now demands any carrier flying within US airspace (which would include that flight from YUL to MEX) has to hand over all sorts of crap to the US government about the passengers flying etc (and even not allow people on certain lists to fly on such flights).
Heck, even flights close to the US that don't cross the US land mass still get hit by a bunch of rules and regulations (and the airports in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are all close enough to the border that all flights out of them are likely affected)
Or better yet buy a burner phone when they arrive in the USA.