Electricity is widely used to power things that do work. Cans are widely used to store food for later consumption. Autombiles are widely used to transport people and goods around the place.
Bitcoin is not widely used for anything. It just exists. It's value is only because it was the first cryptocurrency, other than that it has no intrinsic value. Other cryptocurrencies do everything that bitcoin does better.
Yes, they thought about it for longer than you did, evidently.
They are wiping out 1 specific species of mosquitoes. Other species are not impacted. Assuming the other species have the same food sources and life cycles, they'll simply replace the species that have been wiped out and no food webs will be wiped out.
One of my favourite gaming authors has an insightful appraisal of Denuvo and how effective it is. His conclusion is that it's already proven all the publisher's claims about piracy to be lies and in doing so has made itself redundant.
If you want to learn more about what Denuvo is and how it works from a games programmer and (good) author, then it's well worth a read.
Here's the main thrust of the article: > On the other hand, I stand by the point I made four years ago: Denuvo is so good it proved it was useless. > > For years, consumers complained about intrusive DRM. It locks you out of your legitimately purchased product. > It creates bugs and slowdowns. It’s a hassle. It makes it impossible to run the game years later when the servers > go down. It punishes legitimate customers while doing nothing to inconvenience the pirates. > > In response to these concerns, publishers would tell us that strong DRM was necessary because of rampant piracy. > Piracy was blamed for high prices, or for a refusal to port games to the PC. Developers claimed that between 90% > and 95% of players were using pirated copies. This led publishers to make absurd claims that game prices would be > lower or that they wouldn’t need to close so many studios if there weren’t so many dang pirates,. The assumption was > that if 90% of players are pirates, then games would make ten times as much money if we could stop piracy. All those > pirates would run out and buy legitimate copies and it would usher in a golden age of low prices and profitability. > > Tomb Raider 2013 pre-dates Denuvo. Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider were both protected > by Denuvo. And yet we haven’t heard about any miraculous sales spike that caused the second two games to massively > outsell the first. If Denuvo makes any difference at all, it must be very slight. Is it even enough to offset the loss of > potential customers? If Denuvo was actually making a measurable difference in terms of sales, wouldn’t all games be > using it by now?
Except it didn't just find that chocolate and beer are popular.
It is giving actual hard numbers on the average length of ownership before phones are traded in, as well as a guide at the rate that number is changing.
That's what research is for - to give actual details, not just gut feelings.
Compass and momentum sensors are matched to the shape of the road. Turns are mostly detected the same way. Location is calibrated by GPS only occasionally, because it's a huge battery hog.
Eh, I don't really think that's true.
If it were, picking you phone up or throwing it around in the car would disrupt the navigation, making it think you were turning corners when you weren't etc. I've never gone out of my way to try and fool the system, but I've also never had it glitch out in the times that I have moved my phone around in the car.
Also if you look on google maps there is a blue radius that it draws to represent your approximate location, and that radius can shrink and grow as its GPS signal strength changes.
My phone is due for an upgrade - HTC One M8. The battery only lasts for about 3-4 hours of web browsing now, and there's no new android upgrades, but otherwise there's not really anything wrong with it.
But since I plan on keeping my next phone for 4-5 years, I'm not going to upgrade to a new one until it supports the new L5 GPS standard that allows accuracy down to 30cm. People say "why do you care?" but the answer is for lane-level navigation with google maps. Sure it's not there yet, but it will be eventually, and it would be lame to buy a new phone now that doesn't have this feature, when I expect my next phone to last for 4-5 years.
So it's kind of funny that there is actually a reasonable hardware-based upgrade that manufacturers could be putting into their phones this year, to give people a reason to upgrade, but yet practically no-one has.
Yeah, but that might be because 'dark matter' such as whatever is in the Bullet Cluster makes up say 5% of mass of the universe, as opposed to the current ~85% we estimate at the moment, because we don't have a better theory.
In other words, dark matter can still exist and therefore explain specific observed cases, but it might be much rarer than our current theories suggest.
It's not only tourists that are subject to customs inspection, NZ citizens leaving and returning are also. The figure I found was for 6,720,000 border crossings, total, last year.
Last year there were 6,720,000 border crossings. At 500 per year requests for devices, my figure of 99.9999% of border crossers not being asked for their devices is correct.
Clearly I'm presenting information that you don't understand.
Um, yeah, he said he did this because he is worried there gong to plant something on his device. Obviously that requires him to have already been targeted for additional search procedures, so I'm outlining why erasing your phone in such circumstances makes you look guilty of trying to hide something.
Relying to this top comment so more people see this.
As an NZ citizen I think this isn't a great development and understand why people in these comments are setting don't go to NZ and only take burner electronics with you etc.
What is missing, is that the border service currently only request searches of electronic devices about 500 times a year, total, across all border arrivals. That's a little over 1 per day across the whole country.
You have to be a suspect in the first place before they ask for your device. They don't expect the number to increase due to the new policy.
So yes, this is an unfortunate development and it'd be better if they didn't have these powers. However you have to be pretty damn "unlucky" to be targeted by this policy in the first place. 99.9999% of border crossers have nothing to worry about.
Note that some pornographic material is actually banned / censored as objectionable material in New Zealand, so you potentially could be charged with importing objectionable material.
I don't think goatse is a problem, but (for some reason) water sports are. Actually tubgirl might be too.
"There is no technical way for the attacker to know if you are done revealing encrypted volumes without literally reading your mind)."
Seems you've missed the entire point of the wrench test. An average citizen who is being interrogated and under stress is likely to give away signs that they aren't telling the truth, i.e. your mind can be read by your facial features.
Cause nothing says "I'm a suspicious criminal" like coming off an intentional flight with an obviously used iPhone / iPad that has been reset to factory defaults.
They can still plant something on the device, which you could then prove was planted, however that requires you to disclose your backup method, which the police would take as evidence that you have something to hide and so would get a court order to access your backup, which they could then plant something in anyway.
So sure, you've reduced they likelihood of this whole chain of events playing out to begin with, but if you're paranoid about corrupt border agents, then you haven't really solved anything.
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Electricity is widely used to power things that do work. Cans are widely used to store food for later consumption. Autombiles are widely used to transport people and goods around the place.
Bitcoin is not widely used for anything. It just exists. It's value is only because it was the first cryptocurrency, other than that it has no intrinsic value. Other cryptocurrencies do everything that bitcoin does better.
People always conflate blockchain with bitcoin.
Yes, bitcoin sucks, it's slow and crap. There are many other currencies and blockchains out there that don't suffer bitcoin's shortcomings.
For example XRP transactions can be settled in 4 seconds.
"Let me throw out an alternate opinion, one which I haven't seen in the previous 100+ comments."
Just highlights what a very small minority you find yourself in.
Yes, they thought about it for longer than you did, evidently.
They are wiping out 1 specific species of mosquitoes. Other species are not impacted. Assuming the other species have the same food sources and life cycles, they'll simply replace the species that have been wiped out and no food webs will be wiped out.
Aside from harm to the thief, isn't this simply just abduction?
For every dollar gained in bitcoin, someone else lost it.
One of my favourite gaming authors has an insightful appraisal of Denuvo and how effective it is. His conclusion is that it's already proven all the publisher's claims about piracy to be lies and in doing so has made itself redundant.
If you want to learn more about what Denuvo is and how it works from a games programmer and (good) author, then it's well worth a read.
Here's the main thrust of the article:
> On the other hand, I stand by the point I made four years ago: Denuvo is so good it proved it was useless.
>
> For years, consumers complained about intrusive DRM. It locks you out of your legitimately purchased product.
> It creates bugs and slowdowns. It’s a hassle. It makes it impossible to run the game years later when the servers
> go down. It punishes legitimate customers while doing nothing to inconvenience the pirates.
>
> In response to these concerns, publishers would tell us that strong DRM was necessary because of rampant piracy.
> Piracy was blamed for high prices, or for a refusal to port games to the PC. Developers claimed that between 90%
> and 95% of players were using pirated copies. This led publishers to make absurd claims that game prices would be
> lower or that they wouldn’t need to close so many studios if there weren’t so many dang pirates,. The assumption was
> that if 90% of players are pirates, then games would make ten times as much money if we could stop piracy. All those
> pirates would run out and buy legitimate copies and it would usher in a golden age of low prices and profitability.
>
> Tomb Raider 2013 pre-dates Denuvo. Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider were both protected
> by Denuvo. And yet we haven’t heard about any miraculous sales spike that caused the second two games to massively
> outsell the first. If Denuvo makes any difference at all, it must be very slight. Is it even enough to offset the loss of
> potential customers? If Denuvo was actually making a measurable difference in terms of sales, wouldn’t all games be
> using it by now?
https://www.escapistmagazine.c...
Ok, thanks.
So do you think that the L5 GPS probably will take quite a few years to actually be used by Google Maps, then? I don't use GPS for any other purpose.
Except it didn't just find that chocolate and beer are popular.
It is giving actual hard numbers on the average length of ownership before phones are traded in, as well as a guide at the rate that number is changing.
That's what research is for - to give actual details, not just gut feelings.
Compass and momentum sensors are matched to the shape of the road. Turns are mostly detected the same way. Location is calibrated by GPS only occasionally, because it's a huge battery hog.
Eh, I don't really think that's true.
If it were, picking you phone up or throwing it around in the car would disrupt the navigation, making it think you were turning corners when you weren't etc. I've never gone out of my way to try and fool the system, but I've also never had it glitch out in the times that I have moved my phone around in the car.
Also if you look on google maps there is a blue radius that it draws to represent your approximate location, and that radius can shrink and grow as its GPS signal strength changes.
My phone is due for an upgrade - HTC One M8. The battery only lasts for about 3-4 hours of web browsing now, and there's no new android upgrades, but otherwise there's not really anything wrong with it.
But since I plan on keeping my next phone for 4-5 years, I'm not going to upgrade to a new one until it supports the new L5 GPS standard that allows accuracy down to 30cm. People say "why do you care?" but the answer is for lane-level navigation with google maps. Sure it's not there yet, but it will be eventually, and it would be lame to buy a new phone now that doesn't have this feature, when I expect my next phone to last for 4-5 years.
https://www.theverge.com/circu...
So it's kind of funny that there is actually a reasonable hardware-based upgrade that manufacturers could be putting into their phones this year, to give people a reason to upgrade, but yet practically no-one has.
3 billion pennies would be worth more as scrap than their face value.
Yeah, not sure Amazon is actually allowing the child in Bangladesh to profit.
>> Hubble had been operating with four of its six gyroscopes when one of them failed on Friday
So 4 -1 = 3.
>> After the gyro failure at the weekend, controllers tried to switch on a different one,
So 3 + 1 = 4
>> but that was found to be malfunctioning.
So 4 -1 = 3
>> That leaves Hubble with only two fully functional gyros.
3 != 2
Yeah, but that might be because 'dark matter' such as whatever is in the Bullet Cluster makes up say 5% of mass of the universe, as opposed to the current ~85% we estimate at the moment, because we don't have a better theory. In other words, dark matter can still exist and therefore explain specific observed cases, but it might be much rarer than our current theories suggest.
Not gong to be many places on your list of countries you can go, then.
Too many nines, should be 99.99% (0.9999 in decimal). Was writing this from my phone in bed at 6:40am.
The NZ government and our public institutions are far more trustworthy than the US ones.
It's not only tourists that are subject to customs inspection, NZ citizens leaving and returning are also. The figure I found was for 6,720,000 border crossings, total, last year.
Last year there were 6,720,000 border crossings. At 500 per year requests for devices, my figure of 99.9999% of border crossers not being asked for their devices is correct. Clearly I'm presenting information that you don't understand.
Um, yeah, he said he did this because he is worried there gong to plant something on his device. Obviously that requires him to have already been targeted for additional search procedures, so I'm outlining why erasing your phone in such circumstances makes you look guilty of trying to hide something.
Relying to this top comment so more people see this.
As an NZ citizen I think this isn't a great development and understand why people in these comments are setting don't go to NZ and only take burner electronics with you etc.
What is missing, is that the border service currently only request searches of electronic devices about 500 times a year, total, across all border arrivals. That's a little over 1 per day across the whole country.
You have to be a suspect in the first place before they ask for your device. They don't expect the number to increase due to the new policy.
So yes, this is an unfortunate development and it'd be better if they didn't have these powers. However you have to be pretty damn "unlucky" to be targeted by this policy in the first place. 99.9999% of border crossers have nothing to worry about.
Note that some pornographic material is actually banned / censored as objectionable material in New Zealand, so you potentially could be charged with importing objectionable material.
I don't think goatse is a problem, but (for some reason) water sports are. Actually tubgirl might be too.
"There is no technical way for the attacker to know if you are done revealing encrypted volumes without literally reading your mind)."
Seems you've missed the entire point of the wrench test. An average citizen who is being interrogated and under stress is likely to give away signs that they aren't telling the truth, i.e. your mind can be read by your facial features.
Cause nothing says "I'm a suspicious criminal" like coming off an intentional flight with an obviously used iPhone / iPad that has been reset to factory defaults.
They can still plant something on the device, which you could then prove was planted, however that requires you to disclose your backup method, which the police would take as evidence that you have something to hide and so would get a court order to access your backup, which they could then plant something in anyway.
So sure, you've reduced they likelihood of this whole chain of events playing out to begin with, but if you're paranoid about corrupt border agents, then you haven't really solved anything.