I agree. In three years half the startups making them will be dead, and so will the app. The only remaining opening method will be keypad code entry, until electronics dies and no service is available. I'd approach these expensive toys with caution. They are probably not worth the price.
Nope, there likely isn't any expensive data locked. That would be a minor inconvenience to lots of faculty and staff, likely an embarrassment and some deadlines missed, and next time they will remember to back up properly themselves and give proper heat to the IT staff to do their job. If someone lost any significant amount of work, that is well-deserved and a necessary educational experience. I am actually a professor at another Canadian university (Waterloo). I have a dozen of computers and servers in my research group that hold all sorts of expensive data, and I think it should be that way. No ransoms.
Besides, there are other non-economical reasons why ransoms should not be paid.
Canada should outlaw paying ransoms. In any case, outlaw paying for government institutions! I am a Canadian taxpayer and I do not want a university to support criminals. Let them just eat the loss if they haven't had backups.
If the death penalty was an effective rational deterrent to murder, then the death rate from automotive travel would put the auto manufacturers out of business.
I know I have 1% or so lifetime chance to die in a car accident. Using cars is a conscious choice I take. They increase the quality of life dramatically.
Can they instead keep full state of the page you were in and make forward button work such that all form data is not lost?
If you accidentally press back button you can just press forward button to get back to where you were.
In my limited understanding, this behavior is controlled by the website, not browser. This is done on purpose and is part of web standards (standard practices, at least). Sites can specify to preserve the form content through page back/forward, or they can specify to delete it after the page is left. Many sites use both options on purpose. The default in website software is usually to delete, as this is best for secirity (login screens, submission of cc and other personal data... most typed-in things are best gone after the page is left, just to be sure in case another user is using the same computer). Removing or modifying this browser behavior would break things in a major way.
It took this many years until one browser vendor has noticed this usability problem? I have lost uncountable forms to this stupid feature. It works especially best when you are in a hurry or tired.
Make it an option (buried in the config) for those who want it, and turn it off by default.
Nice theory, but the way people make decisions is pretty complex and influenced by many factors. Research does not support your conclusion: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~cha...
It's called co-op education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is a big thing at the University of Waterloo. Statistics confirms that graduates from this program are more employable and have higher starting salaries.
First law of media: whenever a news title ends with a question mark, the answer is no. So, FTL communication: nope, and entanglement can't help it.
NASA-sponsored research at U. Illinois: use superdense coding, with some interesting twists (note to myself: read about it). That's no FTL, but usung fewer photons for communication than the number of bits communicated. Such technology may become applicable in a distant future.
Out af an academic interest, blind computation (remote execution of an encrypted client's program on encrypted client's data) is possible in theory, but it's very far from being todays' technology. It's possible both classically (with computational complexity assumptions), and quantum (unconditionally secure in theory).
My spouse's and friends' S4 can't navigate with GPS for very long, definitely drains battery when plugged in normal USB socket (not high-current). Maybe there is a difference in settings or software from yours. Z10 will drain battery empty in roughly a couple weeks when shut down. Maybe that's worse than some other models, but my point is there need to be an electrical disconnect if the battery is to be preserved in long shutdown periods. That's my usage pattern, by the way. When I'm not traveling, I rarely have a need for the phone. I just know it's there in the bag with full battery when I need it.
In short, BB works for me. Maps with driving navigation? Yes. (Hello my power-hungry Android friends, can your phone navigate with GPS and charge up off a USB socket? Z10 does that.) Shutdown the phone for weeks without charging then switch it on with live battery? Yes. (That requires inserting a post-it between battery contacts. Impossible with Apple phones.) Phone? Yes. SSH client? Yes. Wifi hotspot? Yes. Flashlight? Yes. (No app required.) Facebook, dunno, I don't use that stuff. Most things are inconvenient on a small screen anyway, so I carry a notebook for real work.
So why do these authors publish their papers through expensive journals instead of just uploading to slideshare.net or scribd?
Besides the career advancement others have mentioned, another main reason is that peer review in mainstream journals performs a significant quality check on both the results and the clarity of communication. The system is not without its failures, and it does not work well every time, but by and large it works and it is better than any known alternative. Notice I have written mainstream journals. There are "peer-reviewed" journals out there that will publish anything. But, in any area of science it is generally known among scientists which journals follow good practices and which are junk.
Putting a manuscript online is easy nowadays. E.g., in many areas of natural sciences arXiv is a de-facto repository for nearly all papers published in the field. Papers often appear there many months before they appear in the journal. Yet it's rarely that a paper ends its life in arXiv. Most are submitted to journals, receive anonymous reviews, are revised (sometimes more than once), copyedited, and finally published. This can often be traced by several revisions of the manuscript in arXiv.
The problem we are dealing here is that running a journal and managing the editorial process (at the minimum, peer review and publication decisions) still costs money. These have to be recouped somehow. Hopefully it shakes down over the coming years and we'll have a better system than subscription-based journals that only universities can really afford.
Never had that happen to me, though I travel regularly. It must be a rare mode of failure. I have never lost a piece of equipment this way in any country. Just once I had to fix a N. American power stripe after its surge protector component smoked out in Europe. Bypassing it fixed the stripe and it run finely ever after:).
Personally I would not bother, as a failed power supply is not a big risk comparing to other risks that something else fails or gets lost. It may be more practical to rely on replacing the power supply from a local store in the event that it fails (many sell universal power supplies that fit sockets on most notebooks). If you are that paranoid, just pack a spare in your checked luggage.
Mod the parent up. It's the same as trying to get a response from China during the Spring Festival. Russians are fully at work all the way up to mid-day 31 Dec (so to say everybody is available through Western Christmas time), then everything is dead for 10 or so days till mid-January.
With all the tracking and intelligence collection capabilities US has, no extra effort is needed. Uncle Sam already knows where you go and what you do, if you use any kind of electronic communication or device while in the US (and while outside the US for that matter, for most of us). That, plus airline & hotel & cc usage data tracks the paths of 99% visitors. I guess if you are in the remainign 1% who really "disappear" from the electronic communications after crossing the border, you are automatically a suspect.
USA also checks if the product is still where it was declared to be at the time of sale. I'm at a university in Canada. Last year my university had a visit by two men from the US Embassy in Ottawa, visiting various labs to see if the products sold under export control agreements were still there. I mocked the men a little bit.
I dunno. I had a home stocked with IKEA, and now have a lab full of cabinets (several types, over 50 units in total). This has survived one said lab relocation between buildings, in a truck. No breakages. The only problem was with one (out of 100+) drawer cabinet's bottom that fell through when we loaded it with HEAVY metal parts, but I fully understand these cabinets were not designed to handle this load. I have fixed it in half an hour usung a bracket from another IKEA drawer, anyway.
I don't know what you folks do with furniture. In normal use, IKEA is durable enough and well-designed. It looks flimsy but in my experience is more durable than many other heavier-looking pieces of furniture.
In any case, if something breaks in normal use, email IKEA. They have a customer service that works. At the very least they can mail you broken parts.
We had a single-photon detector whose electronics contained a little glass-encapsulated Zener diode. That diode was emitting a small quantity of infrared light. When an experiment used more than one detector, they were counting lots of photons from each other's electronics. We have since replaced this Zener diode with a black plastic-encapsulated version, and the problem went away.
Finally, there is an easy way to pay for a major release directly to the studio! I'm downloading the torrent. If I end up actually watching it past 1/3 of the movie length, I will go and pay the rental fee on seetheinterview.com, after watching.
Every movie should have a voluntary payment option like this, directly to the studio. I will use it every time I watch a copyrighted movie past its 1/3 length.
P.S. It must fit over my prescription glasses, though. Over the right eye please. And it must have 2 hours full HD video time on full charge. And it must go on wi-fi... we don't have reliable mobile reception at the workplace. But I don't care if the device is wired, or wirable, to an external battery that I could keep in my pocket or on my belt, and pass the power cable under my shirt. That would actually be okay.
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I agree. In three years half the startups making them will be dead, and so will the app. The only remaining opening method will be keypad code entry, until electronics dies and no service is available. I'd approach these expensive toys with caution. They are probably not worth the price.
Nope, there likely isn't any expensive data locked. That would be a minor inconvenience to lots of faculty and staff, likely an embarrassment and some deadlines missed, and next time they will remember to back up properly themselves and give proper heat to the IT staff to do their job. If someone lost any significant amount of work, that is well-deserved and a necessary educational experience. I am actually a professor at another Canadian university (Waterloo). I have a dozen of computers and servers in my research group that hold all sorts of expensive data, and I think it should be that way. No ransoms.
Besides, there are other non-economical reasons why ransoms should not be paid.
Canada should outlaw paying ransoms. In any case, outlaw paying for government institutions! I am a Canadian taxpayer and I do not want a university to support criminals. Let them just eat the loss if they haven't had backups.
If the death penalty was an effective rational deterrent to murder, then the death rate from automotive travel would put the auto manufacturers out of business.
I know I have 1% or so lifetime chance to die in a car accident. Using cars is a conscious choice I take. They increase the quality of life dramatically.
Can they instead keep full state of the page you were in and make forward button work such that all form data is not lost?
If you accidentally press back button you can just press forward button to get back to where you were.
In my limited understanding, this behavior is controlled by the website, not browser. This is done on purpose and is part of web standards (standard practices, at least). Sites can specify to preserve the form content through page back/forward, or they can specify to delete it after the page is left. Many sites use both options on purpose. The default in website software is usually to delete, as this is best for secirity (login screens, submission of cc and other personal data... most typed-in things are best gone after the page is left, just to be sure in case another user is using the same computer). Removing or modifying this browser behavior would break things in a major way.
It took this many years until one browser vendor has noticed this usability problem? I have lost uncountable forms to this stupid feature. It works especially best when you are in a hurry or tired.
Make it an option (buried in the config) for those who want it, and turn it off by default.
Nice theory, but the way people make decisions is pretty complex and influenced by many factors. Research does not support your conclusion: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~cha...
It's called co-op education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This is a big thing at the University of Waterloo. Statistics confirms that graduates from this program are more employable and have higher starting salaries.
First law of media: whenever a news title ends with a question mark, the answer is no. So, FTL communication: nope, and entanglement can't help it.
NASA-sponsored research at U. Illinois: use superdense coding, with some interesting twists (note to myself: read about it). That's no FTL, but usung fewer photons for communication than the number of bits communicated. Such technology may become applicable in a distant future.
Out af an academic interest, blind computation (remote execution of an encrypted client's program on encrypted client's data) is possible in theory, but it's very far from being todays' technology. It's possible both classically (with computational complexity assumptions), and quantum (unconditionally secure in theory).
Can you make a living selling bugs to bounty programs? Or does this come as an occasional perk on top of a salaried IT job?
My spouse's and friends' S4 can't navigate with GPS for very long, definitely drains battery when plugged in normal USB socket (not high-current). Maybe there is a difference in settings or software from yours. Z10 will drain battery empty in roughly a couple weeks when shut down. Maybe that's worse than some other models, but my point is there need to be an electrical disconnect if the battery is to be preserved in long shutdown periods. That's my usage pattern, by the way. When I'm not traveling, I rarely have a need for the phone. I just know it's there in the bag with full battery when I need it.
In short, BB works for me. Maps with driving navigation? Yes. (Hello my power-hungry Android friends, can your phone navigate with GPS and charge up off a USB socket? Z10 does that.) Shutdown the phone for weeks without charging then switch it on with live battery? Yes. (That requires inserting a post-it between battery contacts. Impossible with Apple phones.) Phone? Yes. SSH client? Yes. Wifi hotspot? Yes. Flashlight? Yes. (No app required.) Facebook, dunno, I don't use that stuff. Most things are inconvenient on a small screen anyway, so I carry a notebook for real work.
Besides the career advancement others have mentioned, another main reason is that peer review in mainstream journals performs a significant quality check on both the results and the clarity of communication. The system is not without its failures, and it does not work well every time, but by and large it works and it is better than any known alternative. Notice I have written mainstream journals. There are "peer-reviewed" journals out there that will publish anything. But, in any area of science it is generally known among scientists which journals follow good practices and which are junk.
Putting a manuscript online is easy nowadays. E.g., in many areas of natural sciences arXiv is a de-facto repository for nearly all papers published in the field. Papers often appear there many months before they appear in the journal. Yet it's rarely that a paper ends its life in arXiv. Most are submitted to journals, receive anonymous reviews, are revised (sometimes more than once), copyedited, and finally published. This can often be traced by several revisions of the manuscript in arXiv.
The problem we are dealing here is that running a journal and managing the editorial process (at the minimum, peer review and publication decisions) still costs money. These have to be recouped somehow. Hopefully it shakes down over the coming years and we'll have a better system than subscription-based journals that only universities can really afford.
Never had that happen to me, though I travel regularly. It must be a rare mode of failure. I have never lost a piece of equipment this way in any country. Just once I had to fix a N. American power stripe after its surge protector component smoked out in Europe. Bypassing it fixed the stripe and it run finely ever after :).
Personally I would not bother, as a failed power supply is not a big risk comparing to other risks that something else fails or gets lost. It may be more practical to rely on replacing the power supply from a local store in the event that it fails (many sell universal power supplies that fit sockets on most notebooks). If you are that paranoid, just pack a spare in your checked luggage.
Mod the parent up. It's the same as trying to get a response from China during the Spring Festival. Russians are fully at work all the way up to mid-day 31 Dec (so to say everybody is available through Western Christmas time), then everything is dead for 10 or so days till mid-January.
With all the tracking and intelligence collection capabilities US has, no extra effort is needed. Uncle Sam already knows where you go and what you do, if you use any kind of electronic communication or device while in the US (and while outside the US for that matter, for most of us). That, plus airline & hotel & cc usage data tracks the paths of 99% visitors. I guess if you are in the remainign 1% who really "disappear" from the electronic communications after crossing the border, you are automatically a suspect.
USA also checks if the product is still where it was declared to be at the time of sale. I'm at a university in Canada. Last year my university had a visit by two men from the US Embassy in Ottawa, visiting various labs to see if the products sold under export control agreements were still there. I mocked the men a little bit.
I dunno. I had a home stocked with IKEA, and now have a lab full of cabinets (several types, over 50 units in total). This has survived one said lab relocation between buildings, in a truck. No breakages. The only problem was with one (out of 100+) drawer cabinet's bottom that fell through when we loaded it with HEAVY metal parts, but I fully understand these cabinets were not designed to handle this load. I have fixed it in half an hour usung a bracket from another IKEA drawer, anyway.
I don't know what you folks do with furniture. In normal use, IKEA is durable enough and well-designed. It looks flimsy but in my experience is more durable than many other heavier-looking pieces of furniture.
In any case, if something breaks in normal use, email IKEA. They have a customer service that works. At the very least they can mail you broken parts.
We had a single-photon detector whose electronics contained a little glass-encapsulated Zener diode. That diode was emitting a small quantity of infrared light. When an experiment used more than one detector, they were counting lots of photons from each other's electronics. We have since replaced this Zener diode with a black plastic-encapsulated version, and the problem went away.
If something gets used often enough, it becomes an accepted usage. Languages change all the time.
Not in Waterloo, ON. We have mennonites. Ever seen Walmart parking lot with a horse shed?
Sounds like a typical inbox in the past 15 years. Get your spam filtering tuned better, and fewer of this junk will get through.
Finally, there is an easy way to pay for a major release directly to the studio! I'm downloading the torrent. If I end up actually watching it past 1/3 of the movie length, I will go and pay the rental fee on seetheinterview.com, after watching.
Every movie should have a voluntary payment option like this, directly to the studio. I will use it every time I watch a copyrighted movie past its 1/3 length.
Thanks the North Korea!
P.S. It must fit over my prescription glasses, though. Over the right eye please. And it must have 2 hours full HD video time on full charge. And it must go on wi-fi... we don't have reliable mobile reception at the workplace. But I don't care if the device is wired, or wirable, to an external battery that I could keep in my pocket or on my belt, and pass the power cable under my shirt. That would actually be okay.