If 4% is a light color and stands out from the background that's still a bit better than 0%, which gives a slight advantage to light skinned people.
But a bigger advantage can be had by wearing light colored and/or reflective clothes. If you're walking around at night wearing dark clothes in a poorly lit area you're less likely to be seen which is generally not to your advantage unless you're planning to do something illegal.
Or if they're also wearing dark clothes... The face is not typically covered so light skinned people still have light faces at night even if the rest of their body is covered with dark clothing.
How do these systems perform when identifying people wearing dark coverings such as motorcycle helmets, veils or balaclavas etc?
How much skin is actually being shown on average? Most people will be wearing clothes, and in colder areas will be covering most of their skin with them.
That said, differentiating any object from the background depends on contrast, if the object you're trying to identify is dark and so is the background then recognising it becomes harder. The colour of clothes is important too.
Based on practical experience, i've often encountered dark skinned people wearing dark clothes at night which can make them much harder to notice. When someone light skinned is wearing dark clothes the face still stands out if nothing else.
If you're going to walk around on poorly lit roads at night, don't wear dark clothes.
Well the whole point of crypto is that you can hold it securely yourself without having to rely on third parties, so trusting it to a third party is stupidity on the part of the user not an inherent problem of crypto.
Indeed, several times while driving down a highway i've seen a GPS unit erroneously think i was on a nearby city road with a much lower speed limit, if the car had automatically applied the brakes to slow me down from highway speeds to the legal limit on the city roads it would have caused unnecessary congestion on the highway at best, and at worst caused another vehicle to crash into the back of my car.
Ensuring the kernel and those services are patched and hardened would do far more good than running an av scan... Last i checked the state of linux av it couldnt pick up old stuff like lrk (linux rootkit) or the various variants like t0rnkit or modified versions of sshd etc... Also most linux rootkits tend to be manually installed rather than automatically spreading, so if someone semi competent compromises the host and installs a rootkit, they will also notice the scheduled scans and work out how to evade them.
It is absurd, but it is their view... The movie publishers do want to control how you watch their content, they tried to stop decss and then implemented much stronger drm on bluray. The drm is not there to stop pirates, pirates will always find a way around it, the drm is there to force law abiding citizens to play by their rules.
AV on your NAS is not designed to protect the NAS itself, its designed to detect windows malware being put onto the storage device and thus spread to other windows clients that are accessing it.
Me too, but the TV won't act like a dumb display and just always default to hdmi input... The smart and tuner functions keep popping up and i have to switch it back to hdmi input.
Really? I put a DVD into my DVD hardware, type "mplayer dvd://1" (or some other number) into the command line, and golly if I don't get to view the content without ads, menus, or logos.
So you're using an unofficial DVD player which is designed to avoid these problems, you may have bought the dvd but by using a player that's not officially blessed the movie distributors consider you just as bad as the pirates. You're using a tool specifically designed to circumvent the drm present on those dvds.
In that case the IT staff would be fully aware of the problem, and would get to spend their time fixing it rather than answering endless calls from users telling them what they already know.
Phone chargers aren't some specialised personal item, even the vast majority of phones now use the same standard types of charger. I'm sure in an organization the size of a hospital there will be other people with a compatible charger. Failing that, chargers are cheap so the hospital could supply some for staff who are expected to have their phones charged.
I hear lots of people like you banging on about the immorality of making money selling medicine, yet none of you seem to be interested in actually doing something about it. The only "solution" you have seems to be price controls, which is wonderful because it allows you to act morally superior without having to actually do anything.
The solution is not price controls, the solution is to separate research and manufacturing. Have research be non-profit, conducted by charities and governments with the results made available to all. Not only would you eliminate the likelihood of profit being chosen over the wellbeing of patients, but you could also increase collaboration as researchers would no longer be competing against each other and wouldn't have any incentive to keep their research secret.
Pharmaceutical companies should purely be about manufacturing and distribution, there are many businesses that operate just fine manufacturing commodity goods.
Okay, but the Windows kernel has FEWER vulnerabilities than the Linux kernel. What happened to all those eyes? Where are they looking?
Fewer disclosed vulnerabilities, as well as fewer features and more separation between core kernel and drivers.
What happened to all those eyes? Where are they looking?
Clearly those eyes are looking, and thats why the vulnerabilities are being found and fixed.
That is entirely wrong. If a Windows update fixes a security bug, Microsoft issues a security advisory and the bug is publicly categorizied and a severity is assigned to it. Its called a Security Bulletin, and it has been happening this way for decades.
Only when the security bug has been discovered externally by a third party who is planning to disclose (or use) the bug anyway. There have been several cases of updates also silently fixing undisclosed bugs as well as those declared in the update advisory. Security bugs fixed during the development cycle are not disclosed, or point me to the list of security advisories fixed during the alpha/beta cycle of any windows version?
There are lights in the countryside too, even small villages in third world countries have light provided by charging up batteries from solar panels during the day, or even by igniting fires.
And is there some overpowering force that prevents schools from opening when the local clocks aren't displaying "9" ? How about basing your school opening on the availability of daylight in your area rather than some arbitrary numbers?
These laptops are not provided with linux, work is underway by unrelated parties to make it run on them.
If they were offered with linux preinstalled, then absolutely the expectation would be that all the hardware should work.
When a user buys a system with "windows", they expect it to run all the same software as any other windows laptop... They don't expect software or peripherals to be incompatible, or to run slowly via emulation. They used to sell netbooks with windows ce too, users were typically extremely disappointed if they bought these and tried to return them.
The same thing happened with netbooks, the original ones running linux were fine because the user's expectation was a cheap portable device for web browsing, which they did just fine. Once microsoft started coercing the market the prices went up (cost of software plus higher spec hardware needed to run it), and the expectation became that the expectation of the devices changed to "a small windows laptop that runs the same software as a full size laptop or desktop", so they started being perceived as slow and expensive.
Meanwhile, other portable web browsing devices (ie tablets and phones) took over the niche previously occupied by netbooks, and these devices typically don't run windows either. The same problem also affected windows on mobile to an extent, people had expectations that they would run the same software as their desktops - i know several people who bought one and were disappointed to discover that it didn't, or that the interface was totally different. I also know people who refused to buy a windows phone on the assumption that it would bring negative things they associate with desktops (crashing, maintenance overhead, malware etc) to their phones.
Branding sets expectations, either good or bad, and the windows branding on anything but a traditional computer is rather toxic.
Walk around any office, on the vast majority of screens you will only ever see a single maximized application at any one time. For general office staff it's been the same at every company i've ever visited. You only see people arranging multiple windows on the screen in specialised/technical fields.
ARM laptops should really have been offered with linux from the get-go, the only benefit of windows is compatibility with the existing masses of x86 software and drivers for arbitrary peripherals - a benefit which is lost when running windows/arm. A linux/arm laptop would have the same software as linux/x86 as virtually everything has already been compiled for arm.
Having windows/arm will only result in user disappointment, either because expected things don't work or perform poorly under emulation.
Having a large fleet of dedicated school buses which are used for just a few hours each weekday is wasteful, they sit idle during the schoolday and at night or weekends. Much better cost savings can be had by having kids travel on normal commercial buses.
Why would the kids be waiting in pitch black for the bus? Is Minnesota some third world location where they dont have lighting, or even fire? And why does school have to start when the clock says 9? why can't school start at 10?
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If 4% is a light color and stands out from the background that's still a bit better than 0%, which gives a slight advantage to light skinned people.
But a bigger advantage can be had by wearing light colored and/or reflective clothes. If you're walking around at night wearing dark clothes in a poorly lit area you're less likely to be seen which is generally not to your advantage unless you're planning to do something illegal.
Or if they're also wearing dark clothes... The face is not typically covered so light skinned people still have light faces at night even if the rest of their body is covered with dark clothing.
How do these systems perform when identifying people wearing dark coverings such as motorcycle helmets, veils or balaclavas etc?
How much skin is actually being shown on average? Most people will be wearing clothes, and in colder areas will be covering most of their skin with them.
That said, differentiating any object from the background depends on contrast, if the object you're trying to identify is dark and so is the background then recognising it becomes harder. The colour of clothes is important too.
Based on practical experience, i've often encountered dark skinned people wearing dark clothes at night which can make them much harder to notice. When someone light skinned is wearing dark clothes the face still stands out if nothing else.
If you're going to walk around on poorly lit roads at night, don't wear dark clothes.
Well the whole point of crypto is that you can hold it securely yourself without having to rely on third parties, so trusting it to a third party is stupidity on the part of the user not an inherent problem of crypto.
Indeed, several times while driving down a highway i've seen a GPS unit erroneously think i was on a nearby city road with a much lower speed limit, if the car had automatically applied the brakes to slow me down from highway speeds to the legal limit on the city roads it would have caused unnecessary congestion on the highway at best, and at worst caused another vehicle to crash into the back of my car.
How can a domain "require ssl"?
Ensuring the kernel and those services are patched and hardened would do far more good than running an av scan...
Last i checked the state of linux av it couldnt pick up old stuff like lrk (linux rootkit) or the various variants like t0rnkit or modified versions of sshd etc... Also most linux rootkits tend to be manually installed rather than automatically spreading, so if someone semi competent compromises the host and installs a rootkit, they will also notice the scheduled scans and work out how to evade them.
It is absurd, but it is their view...
The movie publishers do want to control how you watch their content, they tried to stop decss and then implemented much stronger drm on bluray. The drm is not there to stop pirates, pirates will always find a way around it, the drm is there to force law abiding citizens to play by their rules.
AV on your NAS is not designed to protect the NAS itself, its designed to detect windows malware being put onto the storage device and thus spread to other windows clients that are accessing it.
Me too, but the TV won't act like a dumb display and just always default to hdmi input... The smart and tuner functions keep popping up and i have to switch it back to hdmi input.
Really? I put a DVD into my DVD hardware, type "mplayer dvd://1" (or some other number) into the command line, and golly if I don't get to view the content without ads, menus, or logos.
So you're using an unofficial DVD player which is designed to avoid these problems, you may have bought the dvd but by using a player that's not officially blessed the movie distributors consider you just as bad as the pirates. You're using a tool specifically designed to circumvent the drm present on those dvds.
Once the job market is collapsed, companies like amazon will follow fairly shortly as unemployed people don't make very profitable customers...
The problem is that you don't know, so you can't make an informed decision as to which companies you do or don't want to do business with.
What happens when the network goes down?
In that case the IT staff would be fully aware of the problem, and would get to spend their time fixing it rather than answering endless calls from users telling them what they already know.
Phone chargers aren't some specialised personal item, even the vast majority of phones now use the same standard types of charger. I'm sure in an organization the size of a hospital there will be other people with a compatible charger. Failing that, chargers are cheap so the hospital could supply some for staff who are expected to have their phones charged.
The "up to" clause refers to throughput, there is still a reasonable expectation that the service will remain working even if it's slow.
I hear lots of people like you banging on about the immorality of making money selling medicine, yet none of you seem to be interested in actually doing something about it. The only "solution" you have seems to be price controls, which is wonderful because it allows you to act morally superior without having to actually do anything.
The solution is not price controls, the solution is to separate research and manufacturing.
Have research be non-profit, conducted by charities and governments with the results made available to all. Not only would you eliminate the likelihood of profit being chosen over the wellbeing of patients, but you could also increase collaboration as researchers would no longer be competing against each other and wouldn't have any incentive to keep their research secret.
Pharmaceutical companies should purely be about manufacturing and distribution, there are many businesses that operate just fine manufacturing commodity goods.
Okay, but the Windows kernel has FEWER vulnerabilities than the Linux kernel. What happened to all those eyes? Where are they looking?
Fewer disclosed vulnerabilities, as well as fewer features and more separation between core kernel and drivers.
What happened to all those eyes? Where are they looking?
Clearly those eyes are looking, and thats why the vulnerabilities are being found and fixed.
That is entirely wrong. If a Windows update fixes a security bug, Microsoft issues a security advisory and the bug is publicly categorizied and a severity is assigned to it. Its called a Security Bulletin, and it has been happening this way for decades.
Only when the security bug has been discovered externally by a third party who is planning to disclose (or use) the bug anyway. There have been several cases of updates also silently fixing undisclosed bugs as well as those declared in the update advisory.
Security bugs fixed during the development cycle are not disclosed, or point me to the list of security advisories fixed during the alpha/beta cycle of any windows version?
There are lights in the countryside too, even small villages in third world countries have light provided by charging up batteries from solar panels during the day, or even by igniting fires.
And is there some overpowering force that prevents schools from opening when the local clocks aren't displaying "9" ? How about basing your school opening on the availability of daylight in your area rather than some arbitrary numbers?
These laptops are not provided with linux, work is underway by unrelated parties to make it run on them.
If they were offered with linux preinstalled, then absolutely the expectation would be that all the hardware should work.
When a user buys a system with "windows", they expect it to run all the same software as any other windows laptop... They don't expect software or peripherals to be incompatible, or to run slowly via emulation. They used to sell netbooks with windows ce too, users were typically extremely disappointed if they bought these and tried to return them.
The same thing happened with netbooks, the original ones running linux were fine because the user's expectation was a cheap portable device for web browsing, which they did just fine. Once microsoft started coercing the market the prices went up (cost of software plus higher spec hardware needed to run it), and the expectation became that the expectation of the devices changed to "a small windows laptop that runs the same software as a full size laptop or desktop", so they started being perceived as slow and expensive.
Meanwhile, other portable web browsing devices (ie tablets and phones) took over the niche previously occupied by netbooks, and these devices typically don't run windows either.
The same problem also affected windows on mobile to an extent, people had expectations that they would run the same software as their desktops - i know several people who bought one and were disappointed to discover that it didn't, or that the interface was totally different. I also know people who refused to buy a windows phone on the assumption that it would bring negative things they associate with desktops (crashing, maintenance overhead, malware etc) to their phones.
Branding sets expectations, either good or bad, and the windows branding on anything but a traditional computer is rather toxic.
Walk around any office, on the vast majority of screens you will only ever see a single maximized application at any one time. For general office staff it's been the same at every company i've ever visited.
You only see people arranging multiple windows on the screen in specialised/technical fields.
Most people don't use a windowed environment anyway, they switch between full screen apps so using a tablet ui would make very little difference.
ARM laptops should really have been offered with linux from the get-go, the only benefit of windows is compatibility with the existing masses of x86 software and drivers for arbitrary peripherals - a benefit which is lost when running windows/arm. A linux/arm laptop would have the same software as linux/x86 as virtually everything has already been compiled for arm.
Having windows/arm will only result in user disappointment, either because expected things don't work or perform poorly under emulation.
Having a large fleet of dedicated school buses which are used for just a few hours each weekday is wasteful, they sit idle during the schoolday and at night or weekends. Much better cost savings can be had by having kids travel on normal commercial buses.
Why would the kids be waiting in pitch black for the bus? Is Minnesota some third world location where they dont have lighting, or even fire?
And why does school have to start when the clock says 9? why can't school start at 10?