I dont get why the US is moving to chip-and-signature instead of straight chip-and-pin. Australia moved to chip-and-pin a few years back and there is no problems now.
Although maybe in the US the card companies (Visa, MasterCard etc) are worried that if people have to remember a pin to use their card, they will say "screw this" and use cash instead...
For kids who are into robotics (or parents who want to get their kids interested in robotics) LEGO Mindstorms is a good place to start.
Its easy to assemble, usable with all the other LEGO bricks out there and easy to program with the LEGO supplied development environment.
Plus the programmable brick runs Linux under the hood and every single thing running on the brick itself is open source (as far as I know anyway). The brick even has bluetooth for talking to the outside world.
So if they are doing it, why aren't they kicking out tenants for breach-of-lease?
As well as eviction from their current properly, breaking the terms of the lease could very well (in Australia at least) get their name on a database of bad tenants that landlords/agents can consult and use to refuse them other properties in the future.
Blame ever stricter diesel emissions standards and all the extra crap required to meet those standards.
Why do you think old-model diesel Toyota LandCruisers are so popular out in the Aussie Bush? They have engines that can generally be fixed by any bush mechanic with a set of hand tools.
These days you need sophisticated computer gear just to find out what's wrong.
Australia seems to get it right. We have a preferential voting system and 2 houses of parliament. The last few elections have resulted in minor parties (not necessarily fringe) holding the balance of power and requiring negotiations to get legislation through.
Means the government can't do whatever the hell it likes and has to negotiate to get anything through. And so far in the current term of government there have been over 300 bills passed (so you cant argue that the Australian system means nothing gets done)
3-phase isn't as uncommon in Australia as you might think. Higher power air-conditioning units might need 3-phase power. Pumps (for swimming pools, bore water, rainwater tanks or other things) might need 3-phase power. Large power tools (welder, lathe etc) might need 3-phase power.
Even if the NSA had the capability to track down these cyber crime gangs AND even if the NSA was willing to expose their methods in order to get them, there isn't a lot the US can do.
Its not like they can send CIA assassins (or armed drones) into the heart of Putin's Russia to take out the cybercrime bigwigs (especially when those bigwigs are friends of Putin)
The guy who wrote the script is probably checking all the different services from where he is to where he wants to go to figure out which time of the day he should travel (and on which service) to have the greatest chance of avoiding delays.
Do what others have done/started to do/tried to do and build an API/ABI compatible implementation of the "Google Play Services" module. Map the Maps APIs to Bing Maps. Map the Drive APIs to OneDrive.
Some of the Google Play Services dont fit to Microsoft services (e.g. Wallet or Google+) and some cant be made to work cross-device on both Android and Windows (e.g. Drive and Game Services would need different back-ends on Android and Windows and you wouldn't be able to use data stored with an app on one platform in the same app on the other platform) but for many apps that dont use the cloud storage stuff or the features that cant be made to work on Windows, it could be made to work.
Of course the downside to this is that it would show up Microsoft as hypocritical for copying Google APIs whilst at the same time supporting Oracle in its fight against Google for copying Oracle APIs.
The root cause of the problems at Mozilla is that they stopped listening to what their users actually wanted.
They saw users switch from Firefox to Chrome and assumed that being more like Chrome would get those users back when that was the last thing they should have done.
The problem is that the US government via their friends in the mainstream mass media have brainwashed the sheeple into thinking that the only way to prevent the next 9/11 is to carry out unconstitutional wholesale surveillance on everyone on the planet.
Unless you can stop the brainwashing and get the sheeple to realize that no, violating everyone civil liberties and constitutional rights is NOT going to help stop the terrorists, nothing is going to change.
Its not just hammers, this guy has shown how to get into these licks with a plastic zip tie and all sorts of other things that it shouldn't ever be possible to open a lock with.
Master Lock makes junk locks and anyone who uses one for anything important is an idiot.
With all the power that IS seems to have these days (and the fact that they understand technology and the internet far better than any terrorist group that came before them), I am surprised they haven't tried to find some programmers and get them to build some custom encrypted communications solutions. Something using end-to-end encryption and no ties to any western entity that could be subject to a national security letter or something.
Make it look legitimate/hidden so people (cops, customs people etc) who dont know what it is just think its harmless and wont go looking too deep into it.
No I dont like IS and what they are doing to this planet, I am simply pondering why they haven't simply avoided any communications methods that could potentially be spied on by the intelligence agencies and rolled their own.
Or am I overestimating the technological skills of this bunch of terrorist thugs?
I got my start in programming with Turbo Pascal and still have some old Pascal code from back in the day hanging around.
It might compile with Free Pascal and run on modern Windows PCs although that would depend on whether Free Pascal supports the Borland BGI graphics library on modern Windows machines somehow and whether it supports the mouse code I used back in the day.
That's a very poor generalization. I have a family member who works for a dealer (has worked as a salesman and also a manager) and he is most definatly not "scum".
Then again, this is Australia where the kind of scum tactics they can get away with in the USA aren't allowed.
Maybe the way to get someone to fund a manned mission to Mars is to announce that an unmanned mission has found oil on Mars. Hey, it worked for Iraq...:)
Recent efforts like the Amazon Original Series "The Man in the High Castle" (based on the Philip K Dick book of the same name) show that the future of TV should be companies making programming based on what people want to watch (and are willing to pay for) rather than on what the companies convince advertisers to support.
But as long as dinosaur last-century media companies like Comcast, Time Warner, CBS corporation, Fox, Disney, Viacom and others continue to do everything they can to preserve their status as gatekeepers dictating what content people get to see, the future of TV will be people paying ever-increasing subscription fees for overpriced pay TV products that force them to pay for 500 channels they dont want just to get the 5 channels showing content they are actually interested in.
Disney is by far the worst offender here where they force anyone who wants ANY of the vast portfolio of Disney content (including rebroadcasts of their local ABC affiliate) has to pay money for ESPN even if they dont want it, dont like it and never watch sports at all. Should ESPN go away? No, plenty of people DO like what they air. But Disney should stop forcing ESPN (probably one of the more expensive channels when it comes to how much the TV companies pay to get it on their platform) on people who dont want it and will never watch it.
Windows 10 must be doing things differently then. Last time I let Windows Update on my Windows 7 machine install GPU drivers for my Nvidia card, it uninstalled GeForce Experience and all the other Nvidia stuff.
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Depending on how Google uses OpenJDK, they may be forced to open source other code that is being linked into GPL code.
I dont get why the US is moving to chip-and-signature instead of straight chip-and-pin. Australia moved to chip-and-pin a few years back and there is no problems now.
Although maybe in the US the card companies (Visa, MasterCard etc) are worried that if people have to remember a pin to use their card, they will say "screw this" and use cash instead...
For kids who are into robotics (or parents who want to get their kids interested in robotics) LEGO Mindstorms is a good place to start.
Its easy to assemble, usable with all the other LEGO bricks out there and easy to program with the LEGO supplied development environment.
Plus the programmable brick runs Linux under the hood and every single thing running on the brick itself is open source (as far as I know anyway). The brick even has bluetooth for talking to the outside world.
So if they are doing it, why aren't they kicking out tenants for breach-of-lease?
As well as eviction from their current properly, breaking the terms of the lease could very well (in Australia at least) get their name on a database of bad tenants that landlords/agents can consult and use to refuse them other properties in the future.
They should put clauses in their leases banning subletting/AirBnB. Do that and then anyone who violates it can be evicted for breaching the lease.
Its not just municipal broadband, its any form of broadband not run by the dinosaur legacy telcos.
Blame ever stricter diesel emissions standards and all the extra crap required to meet those standards.
Why do you think old-model diesel Toyota LandCruisers are so popular out in the Aussie Bush? They have engines that can generally be fixed by any bush mechanic with a set of hand tools.
These days you need sophisticated computer gear just to find out what's wrong.
Australia seems to get it right. We have a preferential voting system and 2 houses of parliament. The last few elections have resulted in minor parties (not necessarily fringe) holding the balance of power and requiring negotiations to get legislation through.
Means the government can't do whatever the hell it likes and has to negotiate to get anything through. And so far in the current term of government there have been over 300 bills passed (so you cant argue that the Australian system means nothing gets done)
3-phase isn't as uncommon in Australia as you might think.
Higher power air-conditioning units might need 3-phase power.
Pumps (for swimming pools, bore water, rainwater tanks or other things) might need 3-phase power.
Large power tools (welder, lathe etc) might need 3-phase power.
Even if the NSA had the capability to track down these cyber crime gangs AND even if the NSA was willing to expose their methods in order to get them, there isn't a lot the US can do.
Its not like they can send CIA assassins (or armed drones) into the heart of Putin's Russia to take out the cybercrime bigwigs (especially when those bigwigs are friends of Putin)
Clearly you dont understand the meaning of hypocritical.
Arguing in court that something should be illegal while at the same time doing that very thing most definitely IS hypocritical.
The guy who wrote the script is probably checking all the different services from where he is to where he wants to go to figure out which time of the day he should travel (and on which service) to have the greatest chance of avoiding delays.
Do what others have done/started to do/tried to do and build an API/ABI compatible implementation of the "Google Play Services" module. Map the Maps APIs to Bing Maps. Map the Drive APIs to OneDrive.
Some of the Google Play Services dont fit to Microsoft services (e.g. Wallet or Google+) and some cant be made to work cross-device on both Android and Windows (e.g. Drive and Game Services would need different back-ends on Android and Windows and you wouldn't be able to use data stored with an app on one platform in the same app on the other platform) but for many apps that dont use the cloud storage stuff or the features that cant be made to work on Windows, it could be made to work.
Of course the downside to this is that it would show up Microsoft as hypocritical for copying Google APIs whilst at the same time supporting Oracle in its fight against Google for copying Oracle APIs.
The root cause of the problems at Mozilla is that they stopped listening to what their users actually wanted.
They saw users switch from Firefox to Chrome and assumed that being more like Chrome would get those users back when that was the last thing they should have done.
That problem may take care of itself in the near future with rumors that both Gecko and XUL are going away at some point.
The problem is that the US government via their friends in the mainstream mass media have brainwashed the sheeple into thinking that the only way to prevent the next 9/11 is to carry out unconstitutional wholesale surveillance on everyone on the planet.
Unless you can stop the brainwashing and get the sheeple to realize that no, violating everyone civil liberties and constitutional rights is NOT going to help stop the terrorists, nothing is going to change.
Its not just hammers, this guy has shown how to get into these licks with a plastic zip tie and all sorts of other things that it shouldn't ever be possible to open a lock with.
Master Lock makes junk locks and anyone who uses one for anything important is an idiot.
With all the power that IS seems to have these days (and the fact that they understand technology and the internet far better than any terrorist group that came before them), I am surprised they haven't tried to find some programmers and get them to build some custom encrypted communications solutions. Something using end-to-end encryption and no ties to any western entity that could be subject to a national security letter or something.
Make it look legitimate/hidden so people (cops, customs people etc) who dont know what it is just think its harmless and wont go looking too deep into it.
No I dont like IS and what they are doing to this planet, I am simply pondering why they haven't simply avoided any communications methods that could potentially be spied on by the intelligence agencies and rolled their own.
Or am I overestimating the technological skills of this bunch of terrorist thugs?
IRC is still very popular with open source software developers. Many open source projects have channels on freenode or elsewhere.
What does seem to have vanished is the days of connecting to an IRC server to pull down pirated crap (BitTorrent and p2p killed that off)
I got my start in programming with Turbo Pascal and still have some old Pascal code from back in the day hanging around.
It might compile with Free Pascal and run on modern Windows PCs although that would depend on whether Free Pascal supports the Borland BGI graphics library on modern Windows machines somehow and whether it supports the mouse code I used back in the day.
Didn't Broadcomm release source code for the video hardware (albeit not for the same chip as in the Pi but a different related chip?)
That's a very poor generalization. I have a family member who works for a dealer (has worked as a salesman and also a manager) and he is most definatly not "scum".
Then again, this is Australia where the kind of scum tactics they can get away with in the USA aren't allowed.
Maybe the way to get someone to fund a manned mission to Mars is to announce that an unmanned mission has found oil on Mars. Hey, it worked for Iraq... :)
Recent efforts like the Amazon Original Series "The Man in the High Castle" (based on the Philip K Dick book of the same name) show that the future of TV should be companies making programming based on what people want to watch (and are willing to pay for) rather than on what the companies convince advertisers to support.
But as long as dinosaur last-century media companies like Comcast, Time Warner, CBS corporation, Fox, Disney, Viacom and others continue to do everything they can to preserve their status as gatekeepers dictating what content people get to see, the future of TV will be people paying ever-increasing subscription fees for overpriced pay TV products that force them to pay for 500 channels they dont want just to get the 5 channels showing content they are actually interested in.
Disney is by far the worst offender here where they force anyone who wants ANY of the vast portfolio of Disney content (including rebroadcasts of their local ABC affiliate) has to pay money for ESPN even if they dont want it, dont like it and never watch sports at all. Should ESPN go away? No, plenty of people DO like what they air. But Disney should stop forcing ESPN (probably one of the more expensive channels when it comes to how much the TV companies pay to get it on their platform) on people who dont want it and will never watch it.
Windows 10 must be doing things differently then. Last time I let Windows Update on my Windows 7 machine install GPU drivers for my Nvidia card, it uninstalled GeForce Experience and all the other Nvidia stuff.