Somebody please help me, but a quarter-billion of dollars in profit is 250 million dollars, right? How is that incredible? I guess for Amazon who posted losses for decades (cause they reinvested every penny into the company) any kind of profit is a good thing, but I wouldn't call 250 million a lot of profit for a company of this size.
This mainly tells me, Bezos can't think of anything more to grow the company, not that Amazon had a good quarter.
Or is this one of those slashdot editor gaffes?
Probably less about the actual amount and more about how much they beat analysts estimates by.
I get a little money from YouTube ads. It doesn't come anywhere near to paying for the hours that go into making my content. I'm okay with that but the more money I get the easier it is to justify the time spent. I used to be like you and think I was cool for knowing what an adblocker is.
I love that this got modded troll. People are really touchy when it comes to their perceived entitlement to be entertained for free.
Enter "3 + 3 * 3" in any Windows Calculator app, and see what you get! 18! (Multiplication has higher precedence than addition! Answer should be 12!)
And this is the expected result. A basic calculator doesn't take algebraic input. It does operations in the order they are received from the operator (you). Any basic physical calculator would do the same. It's on the operator to put the calculations in in the correct order. Actually doing differently would be bad since most people familiar calculators would not be expecting them to have a hidden operations queue and should be entering the calculations accordingly. Having a hidden queue would result in unexpected results. I'd never expect a 10 key to keep track of order of operations for example.
Now if you put it into scientific mode, it DOES do algebraic input and does follow proper order of operations. As expected for a scientific calculator (well one of those barbaric non-RPN ones at least).
I pretty much never use the stock calculator app on my phones since they don't do RPN. A good HP 48G emulator is usually one of my first downloads after getting a new device.
The Xbox One stopped shipping with the Kinect a long time ago. They dropped it so they could lower the price of the console the help counter the PS4. The XBox One S doesn't even include the port for it, you have to get a Kinect to USB dongle.
So the captain and the admiral spend the night together, then jump out from under the covers pretty much fully clothed in the morning. This is the pureUSA version of sex, makes you wonder how they did it, and why they're still doing it fully-clothed in the 23rd century. Don't think international audiences are gonna follow this show for long.
After the space AIDS epidemic in the early 23rd century, Starfleet designed uniforms to act as full body condoms, allowing intercourse without the risk of disease transmission.
Microsoft has a versioning tool: Shadow copy. It can keep previous versions of files. The problem is that malware authors know this, so they will open/write/close the file over and over to flush the clean copies out of the previous versions cache.
On VMS you could never overwrite a file. File system would by default always keep all the previous versions of it. Ransomware action like that would just result in having additional, encrypted, versions of your files.
Windows has a similar feature however it's not infinite, it only keeps a finite copy of previous versions. That's why most ransomware does multiple write operations to push the unencrypted version out of the previous versions cache.
Not OLED but I have one of those LG 4k monitors and I can see the ghost image of the application windows for minutes on my solid black background. The task bar could be burnt in by now. Too afraid to check.
Just get a pixel exerciser and run it for a few hours. LCD based displays can start to show signs of image retention due to the liquid crystals becoming resistant to changing state over time if they are left in the same state for extended (like months) periods. It's rarely permanent however.
As long as you have a decent regional distribution of servers (which most big games could easily do) it evens out network lag between users. P2P will almost always benefit the high-latency users due to how most games handle lag compensation, and it makes it more likely that there will be a large delta in latency to the host between players. I play plenty of games that do both and P2P is always frustrating when dealing with high-ping players.
It's also more open to abuse. It's always fun when a player rage-quits a game they are hosting and takes the entire match with it because the game fails to host-migrate. Plus, as discussed, it opens you up network abuse. f
Using botnets to do DDoS attacks is so passé. It may be satisfying for the perpetrators (Ha ha! Site [my enemy] is down!), but no different from the 1980s "my virus will delete all your files"
With most IoT devices having more processing power than they actually need, I wonder how many have been hijacked to become cryptocurrency mining operations, which will quietly run away, building up, with no-one really keeping an eye on them
These devices are being used as part of a DDOS as a service scheme. The botnet owners act as the wholesaler, and people setup sites to sell time and bandwidth from the botnet provider to individuals. It's a huge problem in the gaming community due to cheap ass gaming companies using P2P matchmaking in multiplayer (vs using dedicated servers). Players will pay a few bucks and knock off their opponents in matches, or target streamers on Twitch, Beam, Youtube Gamine, etc.
Before you rush to post about how insecure Microsoft is, don't forget that your social security number and financial history were released in a hack of Linux / Apache / Struts.
Funny thing this wasn't a windows hack. FTA: "The group, variously called Morpho, Butterfly and Wild Neutron by security researchers elsewhere, exploited a flaw in the Java programming language to penetrate employees' Apple Macintosh computers and then move to company networks"
Hypothesis: The hack was ordered by the SSA trying to discredit the use of social security numbers as financial credentials, so they could push the government to adopt cryptographically secure credentials for individuals.
You are going to have to expand on that hypothesis for me. I'm not seeing a link to SSA's desire to not use SSN for financial credentials and a hack of an internal Microsoft bug database.
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" overall prices have dropped very slightly -- about 1 percent " so the yes. /article
Those HP buttons were so amazing. I still have my 48g and at my desk. I'll be buried with that calculator.
Somebody please help me, but a quarter-billion of dollars in profit is 250 million dollars, right? How is that incredible? I guess for Amazon who posted losses for decades (cause they reinvested every penny into the company) any kind of profit is a good thing, but I wouldn't call 250 million a lot of profit for a company of this size.
This mainly tells me, Bezos can't think of anything more to grow the company, not that Amazon had a good quarter. Or is this one of those slashdot editor gaffes?
Probably less about the actual amount and more about how much they beat analysts estimates by.
There is no malware in youtube ads so it's easy to make an exception. unless you are using one of those inflexible, stupid host file systems.
I get a little money from YouTube ads. It doesn't come anywhere near to paying for the hours that go into making my content. I'm okay with that but the more money I get the easier it is to justify the time spent. I used to be like you and think I was cool for knowing what an adblocker is.
I love that this got modded troll. People are really touchy when it comes to their perceived entitlement to be entertained for free.
Enter "3 + 3 * 3" in any Windows Calculator app, and see what you get! 18! (Multiplication has higher precedence than addition! Answer should be 12!)
And this is the expected result. A basic calculator doesn't take algebraic input. It does operations in the order they are received from the operator (you). Any basic physical calculator would do the same. It's on the operator to put the calculations in in the correct order. Actually doing differently would be bad since most people familiar calculators would not be expecting them to have a hidden operations queue and should be entering the calculations accordingly. Having a hidden queue would result in unexpected results. I'd never expect a 10 key to keep track of order of operations for example.
Now if you put it into scientific mode, it DOES do algebraic input and does follow proper order of operations. As expected for a scientific calculator (well one of those barbaric non-RPN ones at least).
lol Wooosh!!
RPN4LIFE
I pretty much never use the stock calculator app on my phones since they don't do RPN. A good HP 48G emulator is usually one of my first downloads after getting a new device.
The Xbox One stopped shipping with the Kinect a long time ago. They dropped it so they could lower the price of the console the help counter the PS4. The XBox One S doesn't even include the port for it, you have to get a Kinect to USB dongle.
What are Trello, Wrike and Asana and why would I want them (either for business or personal use)?
If only Google had a service that you could type this into and get more information about it....
So the captain and the admiral spend the night together, then jump out from under the covers pretty much fully clothed in the morning. This is the pureUSA version of sex, makes you wonder how they did it, and why they're still doing it fully-clothed in the 23rd century. Don't think international audiences are gonna follow this show for long.
After the space AIDS epidemic in the early 23rd century, Starfleet designed uniforms to act as full body condoms, allowing intercourse without the risk of disease transmission.
"Sorry officer, it's a Samsung phone..."
Or left hand secures device in panic, right hand unlocks - or whatever you choose.
How about right hand unlocks, left hand dead-shorts the battery. "Sure officer, you can inspect my phone" hands it over with left hand...
Seriously, most of that kind of malware runs as *YOU*. If you have full access to it, it will be able to encrypt the files. Am I missing something?
Yes, you are missing quite a lot actually.
Microsoft has a versioning tool: Shadow copy. It can keep previous versions of files. The problem is that malware authors know this, so they will open/write/close the file over and over to flush the clean copies out of the previous versions cache.
On VMS you could never overwrite a file. File system would by default always keep all the previous versions of it. Ransomware action like that would just result in having additional, encrypted, versions of your files.
Windows has a similar feature however it's not infinite, it only keeps a finite copy of previous versions. That's why most ransomware does multiple write operations to push the unencrypted version out of the previous versions cache.
Why was this rated up when it’s not even remotely close to how the feature works?
Because on /. we mod up or down based on our own personal versions of what we thing reality is, not actual reality.
Not OLED but I have one of those LG 4k monitors and I can see the ghost image of the application windows for minutes on my solid black background. The task bar could be burnt in by now. Too afraid to check.
Just get a pixel exerciser and run it for a few hours. LCD based displays can start to show signs of image retention due to the liquid crystals becoming resistant to changing state over time if they are left in the same state for extended (like months) periods. It's rarely permanent however.
I don't think you understand how jokes work....
As long as you have a decent regional distribution of servers (which most big games could easily do) it evens out network lag between users. P2P will almost always benefit the high-latency users due to how most games handle lag compensation, and it makes it more likely that there will be a large delta in latency to the host between players. I play plenty of games that do both and P2P is always frustrating when dealing with high-ping players.
It's also more open to abuse. It's always fun when a player rage-quits a game they are hosting and takes the entire match with it because the game fails to host-migrate. Plus, as discussed, it opens you up network abuse. f
Using botnets to do DDoS attacks is so passé. It may be satisfying for the perpetrators (Ha ha! Site [my enemy] is down!), but no different from the 1980s "my virus will delete all your files"
With most IoT devices having more processing power than they actually need, I wonder how many have been hijacked to become cryptocurrency mining operations, which will quietly run away, building up, with no-one really keeping an eye on them
These devices are being used as part of a DDOS as a service scheme. The botnet owners act as the wholesaler, and people setup sites to sell time and bandwidth from the botnet provider to individuals. It's a huge problem in the gaming community due to cheap ass gaming companies using P2P matchmaking in multiplayer (vs using dedicated servers). Players will pay a few bucks and knock off their opponents in matches, or target streamers on Twitch, Beam, Youtube Gamine, etc.
Considerably younger than the average mom of a Slashdotter, so your comment is really irrelevant.
Not really. My mom had internet for years. I'm sure even most slashdotter's parents have internet. Maybe it's you who is really irrelevant.
I didn't ask you to prove it, I asked you to explain it. It's nonsensical.
Your mom probably has one. She probably doesn't have internet anyway so Amazon is useless here.
Showing your age AC. How old do you think the average "mom" is these days?
Before you rush to post about how insecure Microsoft is, don't forget that your social security number and financial history were released in a hack of Linux / Apache / Struts.
Funny thing this wasn't a windows hack. FTA: "The group, variously called Morpho, Butterfly and Wild Neutron by security researchers elsewhere, exploited a flaw in the Java programming language to penetrate employees' Apple Macintosh computers and then move to company networks"
Hypothesis: The hack was ordered by the SSA trying to discredit the use of social security numbers as financial credentials, so they could push the government to adopt cryptographically secure credentials for individuals.
You are going to have to expand on that hypothesis for me. I'm not seeing a link to SSA's desire to not use SSN for financial credentials and a hack of an internal Microsoft bug database.