Pumped Hydro as a storage medium for intermittent sources like solar and wind is a good idea if the costs add up (i.e. the cost for x kWh of Pumped Hydro in a given location is lower than the cost for building something else instead to supply the same power, be that battery storage or whatever)
It seems like the wireless carriers have got it right in terms of collecting E911 information (assuming phones have the E911 GPS capability in them) and moving it through their network and the big problems are with fixed line carriers who are unwilling to spend the money needed to upgrade their networks so they can get that E911 data through to the 911 call centres.
Do it like they do in Australia. Changing the electoral boundaries is done by an independent body (the Australian Electoral Commission). It is done on a regular basis and is designed to ensure that each state has a suitable number of representatives based on its population and that each electoral district has a similar number of electors.
Generally the AEC will try and keep related areas in the same district (e.g. a specific suburb will all be in one district for the most part) and they also take submissions from people into account when drawing up the boundaries.
Since its done independently and people get to have a proper say, no-one can argue its unfair to them (e.g. they cant say "hey we dont think its fair that our poor black neighborhood is in a district of mostly rich white people" because they had the opportunity to complain/object to that decision and because no-one can argue that the decision was in any way political.
The difference is that the Dragon Box product is specifically designed and marketed for the purpose of downloading illegally copied content.
Companies who make products that are specifically marketed to users as a way to commit illegal acts SHOULD be hit with lawsuits and action to shut down their products.
I am running a Skylake Core i5-6500 with 8GB RAM and a 250GB Samsung SSD with Windows 7 Home Premium and I have the patch installed and haven't observed any slowdowns.
Just kicked of a full compile (in VS 2017) of a large (~2100 files) project I have here and I saw no noticeable slowdowns compared to how fast the thing compiled before the patch. And such a thing would be highly I/O bound (reading all the input source files and things, writing out compiled obj and other files, reading toolchain binaries etc) and likely making a lot of kernel-user transitions.
I have no games on here that are demanding enough to show any observable difference between old and new so I cant test those.
If Donald Trump (or any other politician in Washington) was serious about increasing the availability of broadband to Americans (rural or otherwise) the best place to start would be to use whatever federal powers exist to overturn or block laws put in place by state and local government that restrict broadband competition (or have the effect of restricting broadband competition even if that wasn't the intent of the people who created the laws).
Getting rid of laws restricting competition (as well as deals done by local government and other entities that limit competition) will result in better internet for everyone.
For areas where service does not currently exist and isn't viable if left to the free market (including some of the rural areas Trump wants to service), the government could offer a subsidy on the open market. Any provider (big, small, new, old or otherwise) that wants to offer service in a given area can get the subsidy provided they actually provide suitable service to the people in that area.
Of course none of this will ever happen because Comcast and AT&T and Verizon and Charter and the other big dinosaurs will go after anyone who tries it and just keep increasing the size of the bribe (I mean "campaign contribution") until they get their way.
Could the US government have pressured AT&T to drop the deal with Huawei on spying concerns same as they did in regards to Huawei cellular networking backend gear?
If the choice is a 30% slowdown or a massive highly dangerous security flaw, the developers will pick the 30% slowdown. Especially if that flaw is a big problem for people using VMs (there are suggestions in some places that the flaw would be a HUGE problem for cloud providers like Amazon). That said, if you are running Linux and dont care about the security flaw but do care about the slowdown, you can always compile your own kernel without the relavent bits in there:)
China is scared about a US-friendly north (either unified with the south or as a separate country with a government friendly to the US) but they are even more scared about a massive influx of North Korean citizens crossing the border into China.
That's why they are continuing to defy UN sanctions and supply oil under the table (if they didn't, there wouldn't be enough oil for the trucks that deliver food and other essentials to people and there wouldn't be enough oil for stoves and generators and heaters and other oil powered items and if that happens, you have everyone wanting out to a place where there is food and heat and light and stuff and China is the only place they can really go)
Maybe if America and its allies (mostly the UK) hadn't gotten involved in Iranian politics in the first place by ousting Mohammad Mosaddegh then we wouldn't have the current mess in the country.
Does Kodi on the XBOX One support add-ons? And if so, does it support any add-on that you want to write or is it limited to those approved by Microsoft? I can't see Microsoft allowing just anyone to write and run code on a retail XBOX One via a Kodi add-on that could then lead to an exploit. I also can't see Microsoft allowing any add-ons on the XBOX One that let you pirate content.
Then again, Microsoft are not Sony and they may not be as worried about hacks (i.e. they dont think someone getting full native x86 machine code execution is a problem or will lead to game piracy or other unwanted things)
The restriction in question is listed under "Security" in the Microsoft Store rules so they are probably worried about 3rd party web engines being insecure if used to render arbitrary web content (e.g. think about the times devices like the iPhone and the PS4 were hacked into via a bug in WebKit) With Edge they can push a fix for any such holes right away and not have to wait for 3rd parties to fix it (and while they wait for a 3rd party fix any locked down systems like Windows 10 S are potentially vulnerable to being "jailbroken" via the exploit)
I think what they are saying is that they are going to connect to the internet via the kind of provider that just sells you a fat pipe to the internet and doesn't care what you do with it unless what you are doing is harmful to their network or unless they are required to care by legislation, regulations or a court of law. The kind of provider that doesn't have a pay TV network (cable, fiber or otherwise) to protect.
Why not give the 14CU lower-powered variant a lower model number. Then there is a clear distinction between the 2 cards and no chance consumers get confused by what the card (or PC) they are buying actually has.
It was probably originally uploaded as a GIF file and converted to MP4 internally by Twitter. More to the point, it does not contain any audio whatsoever so the original point of the post is valid.
I would love to update my GTX 750 to something better so I can enjoy things like the Fallout 4 HD texture pack but with anything worth upgrading to costing a fortune I just cant justify it. The fact that PC gear usually costs a fortune here in Australia (and there aren't many options to buy online from another country where its cheaper) doesn't help matters.
"big business" doesn't want this (I would say that companies like Facebook (500bn+ market cap as of right now) and Google (700bn+ market cap) are more than big enough to quality as "big business".
The opposition is comming from one type of company specifically and that is the Pay TV industry. Companies that distribute linear TV channels via cable, satellite, fiber or other technologies hate net neutrality because the Internet makes it possible to distribute content easily and bypass these gatekeepers and their dinosaur business model.
The same thing happened in Australia at the last federal elections where Rupert Murdoch (who's empire has control over Foxtel, the main Pay TV company in Australia) used the front pages of his newspapers to declare war on the fiber-to-the-premises National Broadband Network because such a network would have been a big threat to Foxtel.
I actually like getting the junk mail. More than once I have seen something in the junk mail that has caused me to go to a different supermarket that's further away because they have meat or other things at a significantly cheaper price than either of my local supermarkets.
Why was DJI unwilling to offer the guy a deal that said "if you agree to destroy all our data (credentials, keys, customer data etc), not use it for any purpose and not talk publicly about it, we will agree not to take you to court over it". Then DJI could have replaced the credentials that got put into the GitHub code (certificate private keys, AWS credentials, whatever else) with things that aren't public, closed any other holes that resulted from what the guy found and moved on with the public at large not finding out what happened.
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Pumped Hydro as a storage medium for intermittent sources like solar and wind is a good idea if the costs add up (i.e. the cost for x kWh of Pumped Hydro in a given location is lower than the cost for building something else instead to supply the same power, be that battery storage or whatever)
It seems like the wireless carriers have got it right in terms of collecting E911 information (assuming phones have the E911 GPS capability in them) and moving it through their network and the big problems are with fixed line carriers who are unwilling to spend the money needed to upgrade their networks so they can get that E911 data through to the 911 call centres.
Do it like they do in Australia.
Changing the electoral boundaries is done by an independent body (the Australian Electoral Commission).
It is done on a regular basis and is designed to ensure that each state has a suitable number of representatives based on its population and that each electoral district has a similar number of electors.
Generally the AEC will try and keep related areas in the same district (e.g. a specific suburb will all be in one district for the most part) and they also take submissions from people into account when drawing up the boundaries.
Since its done independently and people get to have a proper say, no-one can argue its unfair to them (e.g. they cant say "hey we dont think its fair that our poor black neighborhood is in a district of mostly rich white people" because they had the opportunity to complain/object to that decision and because no-one can argue that the decision was in any way political.
The difference is that the Dragon Box product is specifically designed and marketed for the purpose of downloading illegally copied content.
Companies who make products that are specifically marketed to users as a way to commit illegal acts SHOULD be hit with lawsuits and action to shut down their products.
I am running a Skylake Core i5-6500 with 8GB RAM and a 250GB Samsung SSD with Windows 7 Home Premium and I have the patch installed and haven't observed any slowdowns.
Just kicked of a full compile (in VS 2017) of a large (~2100 files) project I have here and I saw no noticeable slowdowns compared to how fast the thing compiled before the patch. And such a thing would be highly I/O bound (reading all the input source files and things, writing out compiled obj and other files, reading toolchain binaries etc) and likely making a lot of kernel-user transitions.
I have no games on here that are demanding enough to show any observable difference between old and new so I cant test those.
Its possible the 5S is a hand-me-down where one of the parents upgraded to a newer model and then gave the 5S to the daughter...
If Donald Trump (or any other politician in Washington) was serious about increasing the availability of broadband to Americans (rural or otherwise) the best place to start would be to use whatever federal powers exist to overturn or block laws put in place by state and local government that restrict broadband competition (or have the effect of restricting broadband competition even if that wasn't the intent of the people who created the laws).
Getting rid of laws restricting competition (as well as deals done by local government and other entities that limit competition) will result in better internet for everyone.
For areas where service does not currently exist and isn't viable if left to the free market (including some of the rural areas Trump wants to service), the government could offer a subsidy on the open market. Any provider (big, small, new, old or otherwise) that wants to offer service in a given area can get the subsidy provided they actually provide suitable service to the people in that area.
Of course none of this will ever happen because Comcast and AT&T and Verizon and Charter and the other big dinosaurs will go after anyone who tries it and just keep increasing the size of the bribe (I mean "campaign contribution") until they get their way.
Could the US government have pressured AT&T to drop the deal with Huawei on spying concerns same as they did in regards to Huawei cellular networking backend gear?
Except you can't legally book a ticket on just the LAX-JFK leg because of last-century outdated protectionist laws regulating who can fly where.
If the choice is a 30% slowdown or a massive highly dangerous security flaw, the developers will pick the 30% slowdown. Especially if that flaw is a big problem for people using VMs (there are suggestions in some places that the flaw would be a HUGE problem for cloud providers like Amazon). That said, if you are running Linux and dont care about the security flaw but do care about the slowdown, you can always compile your own kernel without the relavent bits in there :)
Extend the monorail to the airport and maybe it might actually get some use...
But that will never happen because the greedy taxi and limo drivers wont let it happen.
China is scared about a US-friendly north (either unified with the south or as a separate country with a government friendly to the US) but they are even more scared about a massive influx of North Korean citizens crossing the border into China.
That's why they are continuing to defy UN sanctions and supply oil under the table (if they didn't, there wouldn't be enough oil for the trucks that deliver food and other essentials to people and there wouldn't be enough oil for stoves and generators and heaters and other oil powered items and if that happens, you have everyone wanting out to a place where there is food and heat and light and stuff and China is the only place they can really go)
Maybe if America and its allies (mostly the UK) hadn't gotten involved in Iranian politics in the first place by ousting Mohammad Mosaddegh then we wouldn't have the current mess in the country.
Does Kodi on the XBOX One support add-ons? And if so, does it support any add-on that you want to write or is it limited to those approved by Microsoft? I can't see Microsoft allowing just anyone to write and run code on a retail XBOX One via a Kodi add-on that could then lead to an exploit. I also can't see Microsoft allowing any add-ons on the XBOX One that let you pirate content.
Then again, Microsoft are not Sony and they may not be as worried about hacks (i.e. they dont think someone getting full native x86 machine code execution is a problem or will lead to game piracy or other unwanted things)
The restriction in question is listed under "Security" in the Microsoft Store rules so they are probably worried about 3rd party web engines being insecure if used to render arbitrary web content (e.g. think about the times devices like the iPhone and the PS4 were hacked into via a bug in WebKit)
With Edge they can push a fix for any such holes right away and not have to wait for 3rd parties to fix it (and while they wait for a 3rd party fix any locked down systems like Windows 10 S are potentially vulnerable to being "jailbroken" via the exploit)
I think what they are saying is that they are going to connect to the internet via the kind of provider that just sells you a fat pipe to the internet and doesn't care what you do with it unless what you are doing is harmful to their network or unless they are required to care by legislation, regulations or a court of law. The kind of provider that doesn't have a pay TV network (cable, fiber or otherwise) to protect.
The thing is open source, if you really want x86-64, grab the code and write something :)
Why not give the 14CU lower-powered variant a lower model number. Then there is a clear distinction between the 2 cards and no chance consumers get confused by what the card (or PC) they are buying actually has.
It was probably originally uploaded as a GIF file and converted to MP4 internally by Twitter. More to the point, it does not contain any audio whatsoever so the original point of the post is valid.
They also talk about "mass transit" options that would have vehicle cabins on top of the flatbed skate things.
I would love to update my GTX 750 to something better so I can enjoy things like the Fallout 4 HD texture pack but with anything worth upgrading to costing a fortune I just cant justify it.
The fact that PC gear usually costs a fortune here in Australia (and there aren't many options to buy online from another country where its cheaper) doesn't help matters.
"big business" doesn't want this (I would say that companies like Facebook (500bn+ market cap as of right now) and Google (700bn+ market cap) are more than big enough to quality as "big business".
The opposition is comming from one type of company specifically and that is the Pay TV industry. Companies that distribute linear TV channels via cable, satellite, fiber or other technologies hate net neutrality because the Internet makes it possible to distribute content easily and bypass these gatekeepers and their dinosaur business model.
The same thing happened in Australia at the last federal elections where Rupert Murdoch (who's empire has control over Foxtel, the main Pay TV company in Australia) used the front pages of his newspapers to declare war on the fiber-to-the-premises National Broadband Network because such a network would have been a big threat to Foxtel.
They should exempt digital goods but require the new rules to apply to physical copies of goods that are copyright protected.
I actually like getting the junk mail. More than once I have seen something in the junk mail that has caused me to go to a different supermarket that's further away because they have meat or other things at a significantly cheaper price than either of my local supermarkets.
Why was DJI unwilling to offer the guy a deal that said "if you agree to destroy all our data (credentials, keys, customer data etc), not use it for any purpose and not talk publicly about it, we will agree not to take you to court over it". Then DJI could have replaced the credentials that got put into the GitHub code (certificate private keys, AWS credentials, whatever else) with things that aren't public, closed any other holes that resulted from what the guy found and moved on with the public at large not finding out what happened.