Look at it another way: why spend $60 and be able to play 30 games from one console when, for $80, you can "build" it yourself and choose from hundreds of games from a dozen different consoles? (And snapping together a board in a plastic case and installing RetroPie is really stretching the definition of "build".)
For 99% of people out there pre built will do just fine.
That would be the 99% who were willing to pay the 800% markup on eBay because Nintendo didn't make many of the too-few units they produced available to the general public.
Technically you can load other ROMS onto the NES Classic via the USB port. Not an official feature of course, but someone figured out how to do it and published some software to make it easy.
30% of phone owners don't use a password anyway, and most people who find/steal a phone don't have access to this dark database, plus you need to convince people to install the malicious app. All in all, a very small risk.
Let me guess, you are either not from north america, or live on the west coast? I find people from outside the US and Canada or who have only lived in the relatively milder west coast areas of the continent tend to grossly underestimate the severity of the weather we get over here.
Apologies for my ignorance, but are sirens like this common in the USA and if so, what for?
So far as I am aware we don't have any such things her in the UK (I haven't seen one, heard one being tested, received a leaflet about them or seen a news report about them). We certainly used to have them when I was a child back in the 1970s and I remember occasionally hearing the one in our village being tested when I was at school. But we got rid of them all when the cold war ended.
I can see how such a thing might be useful in areas where tornados could be expected, but (and again sorry for my ignorance) I thought that tornados couldn't strike built up areas like Dallas as big buildings broke up the air flow.
They are part of the emergency alert systems here. Their main use these days is to warn of severe weather such as tornadoes or dangerous thunderstorms. If you are outside (or even indoors if close enough to a siren) they can alert you to incoming dangerous weather and to seek shelter. The system also sends out automated signals to local TV and radio stations, as well as cell phones.
As for tornadoes striking cities, it's rare but not impossible. In 2000, for example, a tornado hit downtown Fort Worth, Texas . Fort Worth is part of the larger Dallas-Fort Worth metro area and it's downtown is fairly built up. Plus a lot of big cities have suburban areas around their downtown cores that get hit as well. Outside tornadoes there are also severe thunderstorms that can strike and have dangerous lightning, hail, and straight-line winds.
If no one knows what to do when they hear the siren, then there's really not much point in having the siren in the first place.
1.2 million people live in Dallas. 4400 confused people, or about a third of 1%, dialed 911. You can't extrapolate from that to say that "no one" knew what to do.
For the clueless, here is what you should do when you hear a siren:
1. If you are in a tsunami warning area, head for higher ground.
2. Make sure your house isn't on fire.
3. If you have an air raid or fallout shelter, get in and seal the door.
4. If none of the above apply, then go back to bed and hope that someone else deals with the problem.
Great, you just killed everyone in tornado country. Hope you are happy.
Yeah, yeah. Red herring 4, straight out of the deniers handbook. Ok, my turn to debunk.
Nobody disputes that nature could cause this kind of global warming or the later cooling. What science rejects is that for this particular global warming there is
any other plausible explanation than human activity. Especially because of the remarkable speed with which it happens, the synchronicity with the industrial revolution, and just plain simple physics.
I never understood this argument (the one you are replying to, not yours). Even if it is natural, do they think that it is somehow not going to affect us? I mean, we know it's happening. The cause won't make a difference to people in a hundred years or so who are having to deal with the fallout of it if it keeps on the course we are on now. We (well future humans, not most of us) are fucked if it's natural or man made. At least if it's man-made we have some options to prevent it. If it's natural, then maybe we can at least slow it down or reduce the effects somewhat by curbing our own contributions to it. So either way, isn't it kind of a good idea to go that route? I realize it comes at a cost but isn't it worth it either way?
No, I just know that VPNs can, have, and will be again misconfigured by the customer side and used to target companies via their more security lax vendors. I've seen it happen and had to come in and clean up the mess (for a very tidy sum in billable hours for my company, so yea, keep on keeping on I guess). I'd much rather have a system in place that lowers my attack surface area. Yes you CAN create a secure IPSEC tunnel that prevents all this, but you can also screw it up. Why even open up the possibility of creating an issue if you don't have to. If you actually had to deal with these issues on a daily basis you would see it too. VPN is usually the very last thing on the list of methods to provide vendor access, and for a damn good reason.
At least once, my program in Fortran, which had many IF/THEN loops, had an unfortunate page feed loop.
I can attest to how high the paper flew out of the old IBM printer and how fast a box of paper was emptied. It happened before you could react to stop it.
So one of my customers had a few old line printers and used them daily to generate reams of reports (that no one really read, but momentum so...) I was in the data center one day setting up an external disk array when I hear one of them fire up and someone yell out. Look back and there is a guy standing there with both hands over his face. Turns out he was trying to do something with the printer when a report fired out. He had the cover open and the printer starting firing paper straight up at his face and smashed his nose hard enough to give him a bloody nose.
Not really, unless you are using out of date certificates or crypto (so no SSL, TLS 1.0, SHA1, etc) it is extremely secure. I'd much rather have a system that doesn't have the possibility that, should someone misconfigure the VPN (because we all no that NEVER happens, right?) would expose my network via the vendor network. In this case simpler is better.
Yea totally. I mean, it's not like a number of data breaches have occurred due to improper security at a vendor, with the customer network being compromised over the IPSEC tunnel. Nope. never happened. ever. this week.
I'd rather have a system that reports out, initiates communication from my side, and doesn't have the possibility to allow back-channel communications from the vendor to my network.
Why would they "connect them to the Internet?" There have to be a very limited number of robot suppliers, why wouldn't they just have VPNs specific to each to handle these service needs? Going through the Internet via a secure VPN is very different than connecting to the Internet.
(having said that, it's more than likely that's exactly what they're doing, and the summary/article has simplified it to the point of just being wrong)
If I was GM I'd rather have them talk out via (properly configured) HTTPS to the vendor at a fixed IP or range of IPs than setup a VPN to the vendor. Vendor VPNs can be a pain and if something goes wrong they are a great way for a uninvited guest to into the customer systems. Just ask Target about that. At least this way you can shrink the possible surface area a bit.
The Netflix Win10 app does weird shit because those apps are written without multi-tasking in mind. It can make the machine sluggish, prevent other video sources form playing while it's running, not to mention just derping out and freezing up, or having the video go black while audio plays on. Watching on a PC the browser is much, much better than the native app.
"AMC's would be exclusively available to consumers who subscribe to a cable TV package"
We already have this kind of arrangement for HBO, Showtime, and basically every other station. We millennials don't want to waste money on cable bills like our parents did. Either sell your shows online or don't. But don't pretend that streaming your shows online for people who already have cable accounts and can already watch your shows on cable is doing anything new. This is not going to make you more money. You will continue to lose money to pirates until you finally just sell your friggin product online for a price.
$5 a month or $.99 an episode is my price. Offer that and I (along with millions of others) will pay. Otherwise i won't.
HBO and Showtime both have over-the-top digital only options that don't require any cable subscription. Not at your dictated price point, but they do have them. I sub to them for a couple months a year to catch up on shows then drop them until my backlog builds back up.
I almost feel sorry for them. This is like a religion-levels of self-delusion here. Why they cannot simply accept that their industry is dead is beyond me. I just hope they don't take all of their great productions down with them.
Because thanks to Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead they think they are a high-demand channel and they have been jacking up their carriage fees year over year. Now they are afraid of tipping over their cash cow. Problem is 2 of those shows are now history and the third is wearing thin with viewers. Compounding that is the fact that none of their new shows have been big hits. Hanging on to the cable model insures that they keep getting all that revenue a little while longer. If they go OTT (Over The Top) with a digital only service they risk losing some of that cable money, and possibly not being able to replace it since they would lose a good chunk of those OTT viewers when The Walking Dead ends (or gets so unbearable that people just stop watching).
Let's hope they are not that amateurish. I've run into that in my job more than once but it's always been in a homegrown app vs commercial software (well commercial software written in the past two decades at least). Software using an entire core waiting for user input. Developer "I wonder if that's why my laptop fan turns on when I leave the application sitting" Ya think?
Slashdot Mirror
Body armor that may as well have been regular clothing for all the good it did? This was a frustrating movie.
Star Wars must really frustrate the shit out of you then!
Look at it another way: why spend $60 and be able to play 30 games from one console when, for $80, you can "build" it yourself and choose from hundreds of games from a dozen different consoles? (And snapping together a board in a plastic case and installing RetroPie is really stretching the definition of "build".)
That would be the 99% who were willing to pay the 800% markup on eBay because Nintendo didn't make many of the too-few units they produced available to the general public.
Technically you can load other ROMS onto the NES Classic via the USB port. Not an official feature of course, but someone figured out how to do it and published some software to make it easy.
How was that supposed to be in any way useful?
30% of phone owners don't use a password anyway, and most people who find/steal a phone don't have access to this dark database, plus you need to convince people to install the malicious app. All in all, a very small risk.
Got a reference for that statistic?
Let me guess, you are either not from north america, or live on the west coast? I find people from outside the US and Canada or who have only lived in the relatively milder west coast areas of the continent tend to grossly underestimate the severity of the weather we get over here.
Apologies for my ignorance, but are sirens like this common in the USA and if so, what for? So far as I am aware we don't have any such things her in the UK (I haven't seen one, heard one being tested, received a leaflet about them or seen a news report about them). We certainly used to have them when I was a child back in the 1970s and I remember occasionally hearing the one in our village being tested when I was at school. But we got rid of them all when the cold war ended. I can see how such a thing might be useful in areas where tornados could be expected, but (and again sorry for my ignorance) I thought that tornados couldn't strike built up areas like Dallas as big buildings broke up the air flow.
They are part of the emergency alert systems here. Their main use these days is to warn of severe weather such as tornadoes or dangerous thunderstorms. If you are outside (or even indoors if close enough to a siren) they can alert you to incoming dangerous weather and to seek shelter. The system also sends out automated signals to local TV and radio stations, as well as cell phones.
As for tornadoes striking cities, it's rare but not impossible. In 2000, for example, a tornado hit downtown Fort Worth, Texas . Fort Worth is part of the larger Dallas-Fort Worth metro area and it's downtown is fairly built up. Plus a lot of big cities have suburban areas around their downtown cores that get hit as well. Outside tornadoes there are also severe thunderstorms that can strike and have dangerous lightning, hail, and straight-line winds.
If no one knows what to do when they hear the siren, then there's really not much point in having the siren in the first place.
1.2 million people live in Dallas. 4400 confused people, or about a third of 1%, dialed 911. You can't extrapolate from that to say that "no one" knew what to do.
For the clueless, here is what you should do when you hear a siren: 1. If you are in a tsunami warning area, head for higher ground. 2. Make sure your house isn't on fire. 3. If you have an air raid or fallout shelter, get in and seal the door. 4. If none of the above apply, then go back to bed and hope that someone else deals with the problem.
Great, you just killed everyone in tornado country. Hope you are happy.
Yeah, yeah. Red herring 4, straight out of the deniers handbook. Ok, my turn to debunk.
Nobody disputes that nature could cause this kind of global warming or the later cooling. What science rejects is that for this particular global warming there is any other plausible explanation than human activity. Especially because of the remarkable speed with which it happens, the synchronicity with the industrial revolution, and just plain simple physics.
I never understood this argument (the one you are replying to, not yours). Even if it is natural, do they think that it is somehow not going to affect us? I mean, we know it's happening. The cause won't make a difference to people in a hundred years or so who are having to deal with the fallout of it if it keeps on the course we are on now. We (well future humans, not most of us) are fucked if it's natural or man made. At least if it's man-made we have some options to prevent it. If it's natural, then maybe we can at least slow it down or reduce the effects somewhat by curbing our own contributions to it. So either way, isn't it kind of a good idea to go that route? I realize it comes at a cost but isn't it worth it either way?
No, I just know that VPNs can, have, and will be again misconfigured by the customer side and used to target companies via their more security lax vendors. I've seen it happen and had to come in and clean up the mess (for a very tidy sum in billable hours for my company, so yea, keep on keeping on I guess). I'd much rather have a system in place that lowers my attack surface area. Yes you CAN create a secure IPSEC tunnel that prevents all this, but you can also screw it up. Why even open up the possibility of creating an issue if you don't have to. If you actually had to deal with these issues on a daily basis you would see it too. VPN is usually the very last thing on the list of methods to provide vendor access, and for a damn good reason.
At least once, my program in Fortran, which had many IF/THEN loops, had an unfortunate page feed loop.
I can attest to how high the paper flew out of the old IBM printer and how fast a box of paper was emptied. It happened before you could react to stop it.
So one of my customers had a few old line printers and used them daily to generate reams of reports (that no one really read, but momentum so...) I was in the data center one day setting up an external disk array when I hear one of them fire up and someone yell out. Look back and there is a guy standing there with both hands over his face. Turns out he was trying to do something with the printer when a report fired out. He had the cover open and the printer starting firing paper straight up at his face and smashed his nose hard enough to give him a bloody nose.
What telephone number do I dial to hail an "Uber" ? I do not have a so-called "smart" so-called "telephone".
It explains it in the FAQ linked in the summary you were to lazy to click.
Not really, unless you are using out of date certificates or crypto (so no SSL, TLS 1.0, SHA1, etc) it is extremely secure. I'd much rather have a system that doesn't have the possibility that, should someone misconfigure the VPN (because we all no that NEVER happens, right?) would expose my network via the vendor network. In this case simpler is better.
Yea totally. I mean, it's not like a number of data breaches have occurred due to improper security at a vendor, with the customer network being compromised over the IPSEC tunnel. Nope. never happened. ever. this week.
I'd rather have a system that reports out, initiates communication from my side, and doesn't have the possibility to allow back-channel communications from the vendor to my network.
Why would they "connect them to the Internet?" There have to be a very limited number of robot suppliers, why wouldn't they just have VPNs specific to each to handle these service needs? Going through the Internet via a secure VPN is very different than connecting to the Internet. (having said that, it's more than likely that's exactly what they're doing, and the summary/article has simplified it to the point of just being wrong)
If I was GM I'd rather have them talk out via (properly configured) HTTPS to the vendor at a fixed IP or range of IPs than setup a VPN to the vendor. Vendor VPNs can be a pain and if something goes wrong they are a great way for a uninvited guest to into the customer systems. Just ask Target about that. At least this way you can shrink the possible surface area a bit.
Don't forget the buggy whips!
Good thing you don't have to provide a return address to have your mail delivered.
Yet.
[...] and so should your computer.
The Netflix Win10 app does weird shit because those apps are written without multi-tasking in mind. It can make the machine sluggish, prevent other video sources form playing while it's running, not to mention just derping out and freezing up, or having the video go black while audio plays on. Watching on a PC the browser is much, much better than the native app.
From where you think they got this "exploding electronic" idea, humm?
/. probably. That's where I get all of my terrorist ideas from.
What laws would they change if it was revealed 'the terrists' were communicating via snail mail.
Would they require logs of your snail mail metadata, ban envelopes ?
Well in the US the USPS actually does log all mail meta-data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tracking
"AMC's would be exclusively available to consumers who subscribe to a cable TV package" We already have this kind of arrangement for HBO, Showtime, and basically every other station. We millennials don't want to waste money on cable bills like our parents did. Either sell your shows online or don't. But don't pretend that streaming your shows online for people who already have cable accounts and can already watch your shows on cable is doing anything new. This is not going to make you more money. You will continue to lose money to pirates until you finally just sell your friggin product online for a price. $5 a month or $.99 an episode is my price. Offer that and I (along with millions of others) will pay. Otherwise i won't.
HBO and Showtime both have over-the-top digital only options that don't require any cable subscription. Not at your dictated price point, but they do have them. I sub to them for a couple months a year to catch up on shows then drop them until my backlog builds back up.
I almost feel sorry for them. This is like a religion-levels of self-delusion here. Why they cannot simply accept that their industry is dead is beyond me. I just hope they don't take all of their great productions down with them.
Because thanks to Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead they think they are a high-demand channel and they have been jacking up their carriage fees year over year. Now they are afraid of tipping over their cash cow. Problem is 2 of those shows are now history and the third is wearing thin with viewers. Compounding that is the fact that none of their new shows have been big hits. Hanging on to the cable model insures that they keep getting all that revenue a little while longer. If they go OTT (Over The Top) with a digital only service they risk losing some of that cable money, and possibly not being able to replace it since they would lose a good chunk of those OTT viewers when The Walking Dead ends (or gets so unbearable that people just stop watching).
Perhaps it's monitoring the keyboard for input
Let's hope they are not that amateurish. I've run into that in my job more than once but it's always been in a homegrown app vs commercial software (well commercial software written in the past two decades at least). Software using an entire core waiting for user input. Developer "I wonder if that's why my laptop fan turns on when I leave the application sitting" Ya think?
I can't be the only person who uses these on a regular basis.
Unless...I am.
According to their telemetry, yes, you are the only one.
The topic is correct, comment about buying drugs is bad advice and was presumably not meant to be taken seriously.
How dare you presume my sarcasm you cis-sarcastic oppressor!
So go on the "dark web" trade your bit-coin for drugs. Sell drugs to locals and take cash. Bingo! Really, this isn't a difficult situation at all.
Perhaps Ross Ulbricht could enlighten you as to what a "difficult situation" is, since it fits so well here...
Well learn from his mistake and don't get caught. Duh.