The lib-left thought it was hilarious, and guffawed a lot. When Rick Santorum complained, Google essentially said "not our problem".
When it turns out that Google-fixing might have hurt Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency, things are totally different. The lib-left goes full-feminist "That's not funny". Google doesn't consider this to be "not our problem"; they're all over it like flies over shit.
I guess it depends on who's ox is being gored. Guess which party Silicon Valley supports.
1) We are currently on ATSC 1.0 (which replaced NTSC). There was a proposed ATSC 2.0 (although ATSC 1.1 might be a more appropriate name) with incremental improvements, and backwards compatable. It was abandoned before being implemented. Version 3.0 is a radical re-write, done from a clean slate, and hence incompatable.
2) My condo, north of Toronto, has an unobstructed view of the CN Tower, where the Toronto local TV stations all have their antennas. It's 17.5 km (almost 11 miles) distant. The properly-tuned TV transmitter antennas are cranking out hundreds of kilowatts ERP, and they don't always come in on my digital indoor antenna. (Silver Sensor log periodic). Does anybody competent really believe that a wide-band log-periodic table-top antenna, outputting a few milliwatts, will be received properly by the transmitter 11 miles away? Especially if tens of thousands of other antennas are watching the same show? bwaaahaaahaaahaaa
I also have a direct view to Grand Island, New York, where most Buffalo TV stations have their transmitter antennas. That's approximately 80 km (50 miles) distant. But from my 6th floor window, the reception is quite decent. We go from the ridiculous to the sublime, claiming that an antenna 50 miles away can recieve my few milliwatts sent back over a log periodic table-top antenna.
And we haven't even begun to consider a modded tuner that suppresses the return signal.
I can also afford to shop elsewhere. But just try to get a simple tee-shirt appropriate for an office anywhere else. Walmart cheaps out, so they don't have team logos, basketball players' names, cute slogans, etc, embroidered, or Nike swoosh logos. Walmart is about the only place you can get a plain tee-shirt.
Under some strict Moslem sects, it's illegal for a woman to expose anything more than her eyes through the slit at the top of her burka. Now imagine if a Moslem country's court issues a worldwide injunction against all video or still images of women not wearing burkas. Female news anchors on every US TV network from Fox to MSNBC would be affected.
images.google.com would be affected. Newspapers couldn't publish photos of "Women's March Against Trump". Female political candidates wouldn't be allowed to post photos with "facial frontal nudity", and no video/photo coverage of political Candidates https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
There are already unauthorized traffic signal pre-emption systems that change red lights to green https://www.wired.com/2005/08/... The authorized versions are intended for fire/police/ambulance use. I could easily see somebody compromising the V2V system to broadcast a "get out of my way" message, to make their own commute faster. Even worse, overpower other cars' signals and cause accidents. Dumb computers, just following orders, could cause lots of deaths. Can I slip in a Godwin here?
Security 101... Would you log in to a sensitive account by typing your password over an unknown wifi connection? Hopefully not. A public PC should be considered similarly untrustworthy.
> Did you just say, "It is illegal for a company to discriminate against > certain things, but it is valuable for them to know it because > they can save money if they DO discriminate against these things"?
What he probably meant was that a scummy, devious company would probably know that it's a bad idea to actually say that they checked your Facebook/LinkedIn/whatever account and you're "the wrong" race/religion/sexuality/whatever. Instead, they'll check for those things, find them, and send a letter saying, "Sorry you came in 10th place in their preliminary screening, which included a lot of highly qualified and experienced candidates".
Why 254 miles above the earth's surface, where there's still some atmospheric drag, you ask?
1) Minor reason... to keep down fuel costs of sending people+supplies up to it. The trade-off is fuel costs of constant burns to keep ISS in orbit.
2) Major reason... the lower Van Allen radiation belt begins approx 500 km (approx 300 miles) above the earth's surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A moon mission (or beyond) would pass through the belts in a matter of hours; ditto for re-entry returning to earth. With sufficient shielding, you get the equivalant of a few whole-body X-rays. A 6-month mission inside the belts (i.e. above 300 miles) would probably be fatal.
Note that the belts trap charged particles, which would require shielding once you get beyond the belts. The Apollo lunar missions needed that extra sheilding. And that only sufficed for ordinary conditions. Had the sun had shot out a major solar flare pointed toward us during an Apollo mission, the astronauts would've been dead, no ifs, ands, ors, buts.
Yes, seriously. If they had chosen to report the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky story then Matt Drudge would never have gotten his big break. http://www.drudgereportarchive...
> At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a > story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White > House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
There are a lot of wacko conspiracy theories out there. Unfortunately, the Lewinsky/Clinton cover-up was one of them. It lends "plausable non-deniability" to other "unbelievable stories".
Here's a link to a Canadian report [PDF] begging and pleading for taxpayer support for newspapers. https://shatteredmirror.ca/wp-... Page 18 has a graph to numbers of newspapers sold per 100 households in Canada. Some datapoints...
Extrapolate to 2027, and the number hits zero sold. There'll still be the freebie rags in newstands at bus stops and subway stations.
US numbers are also bad. Go to http://www.journalism.org/fact... and under "Audience" click on the "Data" tab. US weekday circulation peaked at 63.34 million in 1984, and has since dropped to under 34.7 million in 2016. The past 2 years have been the worst, losing almost 3 million per year.
I repeat, newspapers as we know them are dying, deal with it.
> Tiny solar panels that can have your phone operate and transact anything is very realistic.
Your phone, in turn, would need to connect to a cell tower... which will *NOT* run off of "tiny solar panels". And if it did, you're assuming that the phone network is up and running, and the computers at the banks are also connected, and up and running.
This thing is awesome. And no, I don't have an Amazon Affiliate page. Replacing the keyboard is probably an idea by the same asshats who replaced the Firefox classic UI with the Atrocious ^H^H^H^H^H^H Australis UI.
> While I don't really like Comcast's tactics, the subscriber fees for these regional > networks are largely to pay the contracts to show games for local teams. That > is, your money is actually going to pay for broadcasting live sports. On the > other hand, ESPN is a behemoth that has actually laid off a lot of good analysts, > is ridiculously expensive, and doesn't show that many games to justify the expense. > > Even though I'm not a Royals fan -- Go Cardinals! -- I would much rather pay > $3 or however much for FSKC than the probably close to $10 for the ESPN > channels. I don't like Comcast, but I actually understand the cost involved > with the broadcasts, and consider them less evil than ESPN.
I understand the costs involved in producing a Lamborghini or a Rolls Royce. Notwithstanding that, I don't buy either one. If there isn't a market, their business goes under. Similarly, I understand that NFL and MLB games cost money, but I may prefer not to watch them. And if some NFL or MLB teams fold, too effing bad.
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Remember some years ago when Rick Santorum was running for the Republican nomination, and he got Google-bombed?
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...
https://www.npr.org/2016/02/25...
The lib-left thought it was hilarious, and guffawed a lot. When Rick Santorum complained, Google essentially said "not our problem".
When it turns out that Google-fixing might have hurt Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency, things are totally different. The lib-left goes full-feminist "That's not funny". Google doesn't consider this to be "not our problem"; they're all over it like flies over shit.
I guess it depends on who's ox is being gored. Guess which party Silicon Valley supports.
1) We are currently on ATSC 1.0 (which replaced NTSC). There was a proposed ATSC 2.0 (although ATSC 1.1 might be a more appropriate name) with incremental improvements, and backwards compatable. It was abandoned before being implemented. Version 3.0 is a radical re-write, done from a clean slate, and hence incompatable.
2) My condo, north of Toronto, has an unobstructed view of the CN Tower, where the Toronto local TV stations all have their antennas. It's 17.5 km (almost 11 miles) distant. The properly-tuned TV transmitter antennas are cranking out hundreds of kilowatts ERP, and they don't always come in on my digital indoor antenna. (Silver Sensor log periodic). Does anybody competent really believe that a wide-band log-periodic table-top antenna, outputting a few milliwatts, will be received properly by the transmitter 11 miles away? Especially if tens of thousands of other antennas are watching the same show? bwaaahaaahaaahaaa
I also have a direct view to Grand Island, New York, where most Buffalo TV stations have their transmitter antennas. That's approximately 80 km (50 miles) distant. But from my 6th floor window, the reception is quite decent. We go from the ridiculous to the sublime, claiming that an antenna 50 miles away can recieve my few milliwatts sent back over a log periodic table-top antenna.
And we haven't even begun to consider a modded tuner that suppresses the return signal.
I can also afford to shop elsewhere. But just try to get a simple tee-shirt appropriate for an office anywhere else. Walmart cheaps out, so they don't have team logos, basketball players' names, cute slogans, etc, embroidered, or Nike swoosh logos. Walmart is about the only place you can get a plain tee-shirt.
...will do just nice for OTA TV. Internet stuff (Youtube/Netflix) is best accessed by a small media player PC.
> Can we fire the boss if he's funding super PACs
You mean like Brendan Eich at Mozilla? https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
> Um the tax break goes to the buyer NOT GM, nissan or toyota.
Corporate shell game. The manufacturer can still charge up to $7,500 more per EV car than a competing manufacturer of ICE cars.
Under some strict Moslem sects, it's illegal for a woman to expose anything more than her eyes through the slit at the top of her burka. Now imagine if a Moslem country's court issues a worldwide injunction against all video or still images of women not wearing burkas. Female news anchors on every US TV network from Fox to MSNBC would be affected.
images.google.com would be affected. Newspapers couldn't publish photos of "Women's March Against Trump". Female political candidates wouldn't be allowed to post photos with "facial frontal nudity", and no video/photo coverage of political Candidates https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
> If they don't like the terms of any trade deals, they can just walk away.
Japan begs to differ. Ever heard of the Perry expedition? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are already unauthorized traffic signal pre-emption systems that change red lights to green https://www.wired.com/2005/08/... The authorized versions are intended for fire/police/ambulance use. I could easily see somebody compromising the V2V system to broadcast a "get out of my way" message, to make their own commute faster. Even worse, overpower other cars' signals and cause accidents. Dumb computers, just following orders, could cause lots of deaths. Can I slip in a Godwin here?
Security 101... Would you log in to a sensitive account by typing your password over an unknown wifi connection? Hopefully not. A public PC should be considered similarly untrustworthy.
...heiroglyphs understood only by ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptologists. Well... like... dohhhh...
>"The judge warned such an interpretation "could profoundly impact open access to the internet.""
>
> What is this judge smoking? I like him.
Maybe he's heard about the fate of Aaron Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Did you just say, "It is illegal for a company to discriminate against
> certain things, but it is valuable for them to know it because
> they can save money if they DO discriminate against these things"?
What he probably meant was that a scummy, devious company would probably know that it's a bad idea to actually say that they checked your Facebook/LinkedIn/whatever account and you're "the wrong" race/religion/sexuality/whatever. Instead, they'll check for those things, find them, and send a letter saying, "Sorry you came in 10th place in their preliminary screening, which included a lot of highly qualified and experienced candidates".
Why is it that a doctor who specializes in treating "gals" is called a "guy"-nicologist?
> The other fix you need is: don't visit malicious web sites.
You mean sites like The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL? https://arstechnica.com/inform...
Or Forbes? https://www.fireeye.com/blog/t...
It's gotten so bad that "Mainstream Web Sites Are More Risky than Porn Sites" according to Cisco. https://www.esecurityplanet.co...
Assume that *EVERY* site you visit is compromised. If your OS/browser combo can't handle that, look at different software.
For use in real firewalls
31.13.24.0/21
31.13.64.0/18
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0/22
103.4.96.0/22
173.252.64.0/18
204.15.20.0/22
Why 254 miles above the earth's surface, where there's still some atmospheric drag, you ask?
1) Minor reason... to keep down fuel costs of sending people+supplies up to it. The trade-off is fuel costs of constant burns to keep ISS in orbit.
2) Major reason... the lower Van Allen radiation belt begins approx 500 km (approx 300 miles) above the earth's surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A moon mission (or beyond) would pass through the belts in a matter of hours; ditto for re-entry returning to earth. With sufficient shielding, you get the equivalant of a few whole-body X-rays. A 6-month mission inside the belts (i.e. above 300 miles) would probably be fatal.
Note that the belts trap charged particles, which would require shielding once you get beyond the belts. The Apollo lunar missions needed that extra sheilding. And that only sufficed for ordinary conditions. Had the sun had shot out a major solar flare pointed toward us during an Apollo mission, the astronauts would've been dead, no ifs, ands, ors, buts.
Yes, seriously. If they had chosen to report the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky story then Matt Drudge would never have gotten his big break. http://www.drudgereportarchive...
> At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a
> story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White
> House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
There are a lot of wacko conspiracy theories out there. Unfortunately, the Lewinsky/Clinton cover-up was one of them. It lends "plausable non-deniability" to other "unbelievable stories".
Here's a link to a Canadian report [PDF] begging and pleading for taxpayer support for newspapers. https://shatteredmirror.ca/wp-... Page 18 has a graph to numbers of newspapers sold per 100 households in Canada. Some datapoints...
* 1950 102 newspapers per 100 households
* 1975 79
* 1995 49
* 2015 18
Extrapolate to 2027, and the number hits zero sold. There'll still be the freebie rags in newstands at bus stops and subway stations.
US numbers are also bad. Go to http://www.journalism.org/fact... and under "Audience" click on the "Data" tab. US weekday circulation peaked at 63.34 million in 1984, and has since dropped to under 34.7 million in 2016. The past 2 years have been the worst, losing almost 3 million per year.
I repeat, newspapers as we know them are dying, deal with it.
Insecurely Designed Internet Of Things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Highest winds 1-minute sustained: 120 mph (195 km/h)
Lowest pressure 961 mbar (hPa); 28.38 inHg
Fatalities 78 total
Damage $50 million (1961 USD) (Estimated)
Check back later whether Ophelia will *REALLY* be "worst evah".
> Tiny solar panels that can have your phone operate and transact anything is very realistic.
Your phone, in turn, would need to connect to a cell tower... which will *NOT* run off of "tiny solar panels". And if it did, you're assuming that the phone network is up and running, and the computers at the banks are also connected, and up and running.
> No, no. SOME made in china stuff is good. Almost as good as German stuff.
German rockets fell out of the sky, too. just ask any 75 or 80 year-olds who lived in London in the early 1940's.
http://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/...
This thing is awesome. And no, I don't have an Amazon Affiliate page. Replacing the keyboard is probably an idea by the same asshats who replaced the Firefox classic UI with the Atrocious ^H^H^H^H^H^H Australis UI.
> While I don't really like Comcast's tactics, the subscriber fees for these regional
> networks are largely to pay the contracts to show games for local teams. That
> is, your money is actually going to pay for broadcasting live sports. On the
> other hand, ESPN is a behemoth that has actually laid off a lot of good analysts,
> is ridiculously expensive, and doesn't show that many games to justify the expense.
>
> Even though I'm not a Royals fan -- Go Cardinals! -- I would much rather pay
> $3 or however much for FSKC than the probably close to $10 for the ESPN
> channels. I don't like Comcast, but I actually understand the cost involved
> with the broadcasts, and consider them less evil than ESPN.
I understand the costs involved in producing a Lamborghini or a Rolls Royce. Notwithstanding that, I don't buy either one. If there isn't a market, their business goes under. Similarly, I understand that NFL and MLB games cost money, but I may prefer not to watch them. And if some NFL or MLB teams fold, too effing bad.