In many of those cases (in the US at least) there is protectionism preventing competition in the market.
Look at the airlines, if it wasn't for the last century dinosaur rules surrounding the airline industry (more specifically the rules that tightly control who is allowed to own and run an airline) there would be overseas carriers jumping into the market and offering a better deal (anyone who knows the story behind Virgin America and how hard it was to set it up and even then how difficult it was to run it the way Branson wanted to run it can attest to that)
These days its more likely to be the other way around. Disney tells cable companies that if they want ABC and Disney and the other content they have (which they absolutely do need if they want to keep customers) they have to include ESPN in the basic tier package (and push up the price of said basic package because of how much money Disney charges the cable companies for ESPN)
On my Gigabyte motherboard, I download the new BIOS, stick it on a small FAT partition on an external drive I have for various things, boot into the BIOS and pick "upgrade". The BIOS will then read the firmware from the FAT partition in question, verify it then install it before rebooting automatically. I am sure if I stuck the BIOS on a thumb drive it would work as well (except that I would need to find a thumb drive whereas the extra partition on the existing external HDD is easy to work with)
Why can't everyone make it that easy rather than needing to run a Windows exe or boot from a special DOS boot disk or something (or even this new Linux thing)
There are suggestions that ethanol produced from corn (as opposed to say swichgrass or hemp or even sugar cane) actually results in a net increase in overall harm to the planet due to how intensive the production process for corn ethanol is.
The real problem is all the loopholes in the definition of "light trucks" that allowed things like the Chrysler PT Cruiser and all those "crossovers" to meet the definition.
You can buy something like https://www.80percentarms.com/... plus one of their jigs and make a working AR-15 from it just by using the jig to complete the remaining 20% of the 80% lower included in the kit.
When you have companies like https://www.80percentarms.com/ selling AR-15 kits, 80% lowers and jigs that don't require any expert machinist knowledge and which can produce guns that are far superior to anything you can make even with the highest quality 3d printer currently available, I dont see anything to suggest 3d printing somehow makes it easier for people to get guns. (or for bad guys to get guns).
Its already legal to make guns in the US without a license as far as I can tell, you only need licenses if you are selling or distributing guns or are making things that are restricted such as full-auto guns.
Its also legal to post instructions online on how to make your own gun (again as long as they aren't for making things that are restricted).
Why is a 3d printed gun any more of a big deal than any of the other ways you can build your own gun? What makes a 3d printed gun any different to, say, buying an AR-15 80% lower and an AR-15 parts kit and building an AR-15 in the back shed or garage? (or criminal gang hideout for that matter).
The reason nothing has been done is that the big players spend vast sums of money paying off everyone they need to in order to ensure nothing is ever done.
Blame the fact that there are less Teslas in Texas than there are elsewhere on the scumbags at the Texas Automobile Dealers Association that have thus far managed to buy out enough politicians to keep their dinosaur business model alive and keep Tesla out of the state.
Do big companies really want to be in a situation where they have no control over their PCs anymore (and risk having x number of lost man-hours of productivity because Windows updated itself and broke critical software the business relies on for its needs? Or because a backhoe took out the fiber link and now things aren't working?
The main reason Apple dropped GCC was because of the GPL3. Both the patent clauses and the anti-DRM clauses in it are bad for Apple (they need to be able to lock down the iOS devices and they need to be able to enforce their patents)
There ARE cases where manufacturers have valid reasons to want to withhold information.
Example: If I loose the keys to my car, in most cases I can go to the dealer (which depending on the car may involve having the car towed there), prove that I am who I say I am and that I own the car, pay a nice chunk of money and get a new set of keys made and programmed and paired to the car.
If the car manufacturers are forced to release all the info to people other than dealers, it becomes possible for criminals to buy all the tools, parts and manuals to do the exact thing as above minus the ID checks and then use that to access and steal cars.
Here in Australia EFTPOS allows me to go cashless 90% of the time. There are some places that still dont take EFTPOS (e.g. the local kebab shop doesn't take cards and a bunch of food trucks I sometimes buy from also dont take cards) and there are a bunch of other places that do take cards but charge a fee for the privilage of using cards (the worst offender here is the ridiculous 5% fee all the taxis charge if you use a card instead of cash although the movie theaters I go to and some food places I go to also charge a fee for using cards) but otherwise I use EFTPOS (or sometimes Visa Debit) everywhere because its so easy.
And my bank doesn't charge me a cent when I pay with EFTPOS so its cheap too:)
You had a bunch of protests by the population that lead to the ousting of a dictator (Hosni Mubarak) and democratic elections that resulted in Mohammad Morsi becoming president. But then things unraveled and the military kicked out the democratically elected president.
What happened and what went wrong? Were the elections in 2011 and 2012 that brought Mohammad Morsi to power not free, fair and legitimate? Did Morsi break the law or otherwise do bad things? (i.e. was the actions to kick him out of office the Egyptian equivilant of impeachment?)
Was Morsi kicked out because of pressure from the US and its allies? (I think I remember something about Morsi considering ending support for Israel and supporting Palestine instead, that would be a reason for the US and its friends to push for some sort of action)
Is it like Thailand where action was taken because Morsi was doing things that went against the best interests of the country? Was there a concern that Morsi was planning to set up an Islamic dictatorship of some sort similar to countries like Iran?
Weren't there a few cases recently where judges ruled that you can't be forced to give up your passwords under the 5th amendment rule against forced self incrimination?
Or does the precedent in those cases not apply in this particular situation?
Can anyone explain why all the players in broadcast TV aren't pushing to have the next-generation broadcast TV standards (ATSC and DVB-T and stuff) using AV1 instead of H.265/HEVC as the replacement for MPEG2 and MPEG4/H.264? I would have thought that (like everyone else involved with video) the broadcast TV people would be very attracted to a codec without all the license fees associated with H.265/HEVC. Is there something about H.265/HEVC that makes it better for broadcast TV than AV1? Is it simply that AV1 isn't proven enough to be viable for something like the next ATSC standard? Or is it simply that its easier to slot H.265/HEVC into a workflow that already does MPEG2 and MPEG4/H.264?
Seems like everyone else (even the mob that defines standards for cable TV) is largely behind AV1, why not broadcast TV?
Same here, I really really want to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB for my Skylake i5 system but the prices here in Australia for the needed DDR4 sticks are just obscene:(
Too bad the governments don't have the guts to take REAL action to stop the collusion and bring down DRAM prices (none of the fines currently being talked about will be enough to cause Micron, Hynix or Samsung to change their behaviour so the only solution is either much bigger fines or some kind of sanctions or the like)
Maybe the Chinese will have the guts to go further and hit the DRAM manufacturers enough that it actually forces them to change:)
If you have an MRI machine or a power station or any other critical embedded system connected to the wide open internet without a VERY strong firewall in place, you are a stupid idiot and don't deserve to be allowed near a computer...
The WebAssembly guys are aware of this issue https://github.com/WebAssembly... and dont plan to actually support the new features until they have a solution.
We know from the Snowden leaks that the US government has the means to infect specific Cisco gear with targeted implants for spying or attack purposes. Its obvious they are worried that the Chinese may do the same for Huawei gear (imagine network gear at the core of something like the new AT&T 5G network being used for spying and the amount of intelligence data that the Chinese could gain from that)
#1 is outside AMC's control. Although given that films like Infinity War, Black Panther, Ready Player One and many others make in the millions of dollars, your definition of "worth watching" and that of the public at large probably differ.
Given what Microsoft has done to Visual Studio as of late (support for building apps on Linux, Android, iOS and other platforms, major efforts towards making Visual Studio compliant to the latest C++ standards, open sourcing core parts of.NET and generally being much more developer friendly) I cant see a purchase of Github being the end of the world.
How many criminals were unable to be caught/prosecuted/charged as a result of law enforcement not having access to an encrypted device? (I suspect the 1000-2000 figure quoted includes a bunch of investigations where they weren't able to get into the encrypted device but were able to find another way to secure an arrest or conviction)
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In many of those cases (in the US at least) there is protectionism preventing competition in the market.
Look at the airlines, if it wasn't for the last century dinosaur rules surrounding the airline industry (more specifically the rules that tightly control who is allowed to own and run an airline) there would be overseas carriers jumping into the market and offering a better deal (anyone who knows the story behind Virgin America and how hard it was to set it up and even then how difficult it was to run it the way Branson wanted to run it can attest to that)
These days its more likely to be the other way around. Disney tells cable companies that if they want ABC and Disney and the other content they have (which they absolutely do need if they want to keep customers) they have to include ESPN in the basic tier package (and push up the price of said basic package because of how much money Disney charges the cable companies for ESPN)
On my Gigabyte motherboard, I download the new BIOS, stick it on a small FAT partition on an external drive I have for various things, boot into the BIOS and pick "upgrade". The BIOS will then read the firmware from the FAT partition in question, verify it then install it before rebooting automatically. I am sure if I stuck the BIOS on a thumb drive it would work as well (except that I would need to find a thumb drive whereas the extra partition on the existing external HDD is easy to work with)
Why can't everyone make it that easy rather than needing to run a Windows exe or boot from a special DOS boot disk or something (or even this new Linux thing)
There are suggestions that ethanol produced from corn (as opposed to say swichgrass or hemp or even sugar cane) actually results in a net increase in overall harm to the planet due to how intensive the production process for corn ethanol is.
The real problem is all the loopholes in the definition of "light trucks" that allowed things like the Chrysler PT Cruiser and all those "crossovers" to meet the definition.
What do you think things like https://www.80percentarms.com/... is?
It looks like a bolt carrier assembly (including bolt) to me.
You can buy something like https://www.80percentarms.com/... plus one of their jigs and make a working AR-15 from it just by using the jig to complete the remaining 20% of the 80% lower included in the kit.
When you have companies like https://www.80percentarms.com/ selling AR-15 kits, 80% lowers and jigs that don't require any expert machinist knowledge and which can produce guns that are far superior to anything you can make even with the highest quality 3d printer currently available, I dont see anything to suggest 3d printing somehow makes it easier for people to get guns. (or for bad guys to get guns).
Its already legal to make guns in the US without a license as far as I can tell, you only need licenses if you are selling or distributing guns or are making things that are restricted such as full-auto guns.
Its also legal to post instructions online on how to make your own gun (again as long as they aren't for making things that are restricted).
Why is a 3d printed gun any more of a big deal than any of the other ways you can build your own gun? What makes a 3d printed gun any different to, say, buying an AR-15 80% lower and an AR-15 parts kit and building an AR-15 in the back shed or garage? (or criminal gang hideout for that matter).
The reason nothing has been done is that the big players spend vast sums of money paying off everyone they need to in order to ensure nothing is ever done.
Blame the fact that there are less Teslas in Texas than there are elsewhere on the scumbags at the Texas Automobile Dealers Association that have thus far managed to buy out enough politicians to keep their dinosaur business model alive and keep Tesla out of the state.
Do big companies really want to be in a situation where they have no control over their PCs anymore (and risk having x number of lost man-hours of productivity because Windows updated itself and broke critical software the business relies on for its needs? Or because a backhoe took out the fiber link and now things aren't working?
The main reason Apple dropped GCC was because of the GPL3. Both the patent clauses and the anti-DRM clauses in it are bad for Apple (they need to be able to lock down the iOS devices and they need to be able to enforce their patents)
Normal cabs are already capped by the limited number of taxi medallions that are out there.
There ARE cases where manufacturers have valid reasons to want to withhold information.
Example:
If I loose the keys to my car, in most cases I can go to the dealer (which depending on the car may involve having the car towed there), prove that I am who I say I am and that I own the car, pay a nice chunk of money and get a new set of keys made and programmed and paired to the car.
If the car manufacturers are forced to release all the info to people other than dealers, it becomes possible for criminals to buy all the tools, parts and manuals to do the exact thing as above minus the ID checks and then use that to access and steal cars.
And that's just one example.
Here in Australia EFTPOS allows me to go cashless 90% of the time. There are some places that still dont take EFTPOS (e.g. the local kebab shop doesn't take cards and a bunch of food trucks I sometimes buy from also dont take cards) and there are a bunch of other places that do take cards but charge a fee for the privilage of using cards (the worst offender here is the ridiculous 5% fee all the taxis charge if you use a card instead of cash although the movie theaters I go to and some food places I go to also charge a fee for using cards) but otherwise I use EFTPOS (or sometimes Visa Debit) everywhere because its so easy.
And my bank doesn't charge me a cent when I pay with EFTPOS so its cheap too :)
You had a bunch of protests by the population that lead to the ousting of a dictator (Hosni Mubarak) and democratic elections that resulted in Mohammad Morsi becoming president. But then things unraveled and the military kicked out the democratically elected president.
What happened and what went wrong? Were the elections in 2011 and 2012 that brought Mohammad Morsi to power not free, fair and legitimate? Did Morsi break the law or otherwise do bad things? (i.e. was the actions to kick him out of office the Egyptian equivilant of impeachment?)
Was Morsi kicked out because of pressure from the US and its allies? (I think I remember something about Morsi considering ending support for Israel and supporting Palestine instead, that would be a reason for the US and its friends to push for some sort of action)
Is it like Thailand where action was taken because Morsi was doing things that went against the best interests of the country? Was there a concern that Morsi was planning to set up an Islamic dictatorship of some sort similar to countries like Iran?
Weren't there a few cases recently where judges ruled that you can't be forced to give up your passwords under the 5th amendment rule against forced self incrimination?
Or does the precedent in those cases not apply in this particular situation?
Can anyone explain why all the players in broadcast TV aren't pushing to have the next-generation broadcast TV standards (ATSC and DVB-T and stuff) using AV1 instead of H.265/HEVC as the replacement for MPEG2 and MPEG4/H.264? I would have thought that (like everyone else involved with video) the broadcast TV people would be very attracted to a codec without all the license fees associated with H.265/HEVC. Is there something about H.265/HEVC that makes it better for broadcast TV than AV1? Is it simply that AV1 isn't proven enough to be viable for something like the next ATSC standard? Or is it simply that its easier to slot H.265/HEVC into a workflow that already does MPEG2 and MPEG4/H.264?
Seems like everyone else (even the mob that defines standards for cable TV) is largely behind AV1, why not broadcast TV?
Same here, I really really want to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB for my Skylake i5 system but the prices here in Australia for the needed DDR4 sticks are just obscene :(
Too bad the governments don't have the guts to take REAL action to stop the collusion and bring down DRAM prices (none of the fines currently being talked about will be enough to cause Micron, Hynix or Samsung to change their behaviour so the only solution is either much bigger fines or some kind of sanctions or the like)
Maybe the Chinese will have the guts to go further and hit the DRAM manufacturers enough that it actually forces them to change :)
If you have an MRI machine or a power station or any other critical embedded system connected to the wide open internet without a VERY strong firewall in place, you are a stupid idiot and don't deserve to be allowed near a computer...
The WebAssembly guys are aware of this issue
https://github.com/WebAssembly...
and dont plan to actually support the new features until they have a solution.
We know from the Snowden leaks that the US government has the means to infect specific Cisco gear with targeted implants for spying or attack purposes. Its obvious they are worried that the Chinese may do the same for Huawei gear (imagine network gear at the core of something like the new AT&T 5G network being used for spying and the amount of intelligence data that the Chinese could gain from that)
#1 is outside AMC's control. Although given that films like Infinity War, Black Panther, Ready Player One and many others make in the millions of dollars, your definition of "worth watching" and that of the public at large probably differ.
Given what Microsoft has done to Visual Studio as of late (support for building apps on Linux, Android, iOS and other platforms, major efforts towards making Visual Studio compliant to the latest C++ standards, open sourcing core parts of .NET and generally being much more developer friendly) I cant see a purchase of Github being the end of the world.
How many criminals were unable to be caught/prosecuted/charged as a result of law enforcement not having access to an encrypted device? (I suspect the 1000-2000 figure quoted includes a bunch of investigations where they weren't able to get into the encrypted device but were able to find another way to secure an arrest or conviction)