There is another problem with SMS 2FA that isn't covered in this document, and is much easier to pull off: It is currently too easy to social engineer phone companies to move service to a new device. This has happened recently to several execs to allow script kiddies to take over social media accounts that are using SMS 2-factor.
According to Anandtech, the GPU is the GP102 which is the same as in the recently announced top-end consumer card "Titan X" (note: not "GTX Titan X".. confusing? yes)
The Titan X has 3584 shader processors while the Quadro P6000 has 3840 and twice the memory. I assume that this means that the Titan X has a lower-binned chip.
Previous generation of Nvidia GPUs ("Maxwell" architecture) has a GPU called GTX 980 Ti, which was a lower-binned GTX Titan X with half the memory. Now when the 10-series Titan X is already the lower-binned GPU, I suppose this means that there will not be any "GTX 1080 Ti".
If there is a 1080ti, it will probably use the same GP102 from the Titan X, but with only 8GB of vRAM. Heck they might even use the GP102 from the P6000. The first Titan came out during the 700 series and the 780ti had a higher-binned GK110 than the Titan, even though the Titan had more vRAM and FP64 support, and a much higher price tag.
Honestly though, it's not all that necessary. The 1080 is a beast of a card. A 1080 ti might not be enough to justify the extra cost this generation. I'd rather they concentrate on getting more 1080's out so I can actually buy one.... at MSRP.
Ah, no. You are just not comparing apples to apples. I don't need a prime subscription to rent movies on Amazon, so the movies being there vs on Netflix is meaningless. I can always go to rent it there. Or buy a digital copy. Or buy physical copy (which, for older movies, can actually be cheaper). So when it comes to comparing Amazon Prime Video (which does cost money for the subscription) to Netflix, the Prime Video selection is extremely lacking. There are plenty of movies on that list I can watch on Netflix, for example, but must buy or rent on Amazon since they are not part of Prime.
The real reason for people leaving Netflix is the blocking of VPNs and proxies and the dull nature of Netflix original content.
These are valid points to some extent. Netflix's original content isn't that bad, but the fact is that they were formed as a content distributor, not a content producer. And that's the real problem... they have no content to distribute. Netflix has jack shit to watch, whether you have a working VPN or not.
This really hit home about 5 minutes ago when I ran across http://www.cinesift.com/ via a link on HN. Look for the red "Netflix" buttons and you'll see maybe one or two in the first several dozen listings. Those are among the highest-ranked films of all time, across numerous genres. Almost none of them are available on Netflix. Meanwhile, Amazon Video lets you access almost all of them.
If Netflix is going to survive, they cannot simply rely on offering a pathetic assortment of B- and C-level movies for a flat rate of 12 bucks a month or whatever. What they are doing is not working, and it's time to stop trying. They have to start offering optional premium content. I see no other strategy that will keep Netflix from being destroyed by more clued-in players, including but not limited to Amazon.
That is a bullshit comparison. Most of those films are available for RENTAL or PURCHASE on Amazon, not as a part Prime video. You might as well compare Netflix to Amazon's DVD/Blu-Ray selection while you're at it.
Little companies like this as they tend to prefer less fixed cost. Larger companies, companies that tend to vertically integrate prefer fixed costs as they know how to leverage that capital more effectively. At least they used to. This everything-in-the-cloud phenomenon has tended to stupefy C-suites into forgetting this.
Big enterprises tend to be the ones who prefer this type of thing actually, and they have for a long time since those also tend to be the companies where getting CAPEX involves lots of hoop jumping and usually a few satanic ritual sacrifices if it's over a certain threshold. Small companies tend to be more concerned about actual cost. Most big companies would rather lease software, hardware, hell even people.
Many companies prefer these models over buying licenses outright because in many companies CAPEX is much harder to get than OPEX, even if it costs more in the long run. Not to mention most companies already have SA or other yearly contracts so it's not really anything new.
They could strike a deal with ANYONE for $1 a year and it would be more than they are getting now. They could go back to Google or go to MS and get a what they can, it would still be an increase over just the Yahoo money alone.
Plus they could turn around and strike a new deal with another search engine and get more revenue from that deal while still getting paid by Yahoo. It's a no-brainer. It's also a huge hiccup for Yahoo trying to find a buyer though and could prevent a sale at a reasonable price (from Yahoo's perspective) before it runs out or if they could somehow get it modified.
The companies selling dangerous ones will get sued out of existence. The ones selling better ones will thrive. That's the market in action. Hillary doesn't have to get involved every time a kid scratches his knee.
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roman_mir
Is the usual li-ion battery circuitry preventing overcharging missing/broken? Does the battery get crushed from the weight of the human? What's going wrong here?
"It can be dangerous!" doesn't tell me anything I don't already know about compact stores of energy.
Cheap, uncertified charging circuit designs and components rushed into production by about a zillion chinese companies trying to cash in on the craze. Combine that with the size of the battery packs (much larger than what you would find in most consumer electronics) and you get a nice, big fire hazard.
It's probably more the fault of cheap charging circuits than the batteries, but since it's the batteries that go WOOSH and burn your house down, they are getting all the credit.
Anti-GMO. The people pushing to prevent technologies that would allow people in third world to continue to live. If we start having food shortages you can bet it won't kill people in North America or Europe, at least not until most of the third world is completely wiped out.
Fuck Greenpeace. They don't want us to "meet the demands of a ballooning global population"
They want us to die.
Anything that doesn't involve hairshirts, self-loathing, and hundreds of millions of dead humans getting off the planet to "let nature heal" is beyond those assholes.
No shit. I'm pretty sure the groups behind the anti-gmo, anti-vax, and anti-medicine movements are really just trying to push a goal of population culling. Let's make sure all those poor people stop consuming resources and just die off. Because, let's face it, it won't be a 1st world problem and the people pushing this shite are certainly not living in the 3rd world.
Bananas are identically cloned plants though, GMO corn and soybeans are not. For the GMO crops they just need the desired genes in the plant. That doesn't require cloning the plant, just careful monitoring and controlled pollination to make sure the desired genes remain dominant. Bananas, Apple Trees, etc, don't grow from seed. Every apple from a particular variety comes from a single parent tree that cuttings were taken from. If you plant the seeds from a honey crisp, for example, you will get an apple tree but it won't have honey crisp apples. Same for bananas. We breed a variety that is popular, then clone that plant via cuttings.
While you can't fix the general weakness of the platform, there's nothing stopping Twitter from slapping on a "VIP" mark on special accounts, which will make any attempt to change passwords, etc, take extra steps and authentications.
That would have made no difference here however, since it wasn't Twitter but another application connected to Twitter that was compromised. They used the compromised application, which had been granted read/write access to their Twitter accounts by the account holders, to post tweets to their Twitter feeds.
You can but in many cases you would need to keep that old version 3 to 4 years, at least for the pro versions, for it to make financial sense. Double that for each PC you need Office on up to 5.
Why should I switch my iPhone to an Android phone again?
How else will Google track you outside your home? You know, so you get just the right ads for your lifestyle. Totally not also going to the NSA or anything.
Sure. But unfortunately ransomware is becoming a common way companies are finding out that they are either not backing everything important up, or their backups are not configure correctly and they don't have the backups they thought they had.
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There is another problem with SMS 2FA that isn't covered in this document, and is much easier to pull off: It is currently too easy to social engineer phone companies to move service to a new device. This has happened recently to several execs to allow script kiddies to take over social media accounts that are using SMS 2-factor.
According to Anandtech, the GPU is the GP102 which is the same as in the recently announced top-end consumer card "Titan X" (note: not "GTX Titan X".. confusing? yes)
The Titan X has 3584 shader processors while the Quadro P6000 has 3840 and twice the memory. I assume that this means that the Titan X has a lower-binned chip. Previous generation of Nvidia GPUs ("Maxwell" architecture) has a GPU called GTX 980 Ti, which was a lower-binned GTX Titan X with half the memory. Now when the 10-series Titan X is already the lower-binned GPU, I suppose this means that there will not be any "GTX 1080 Ti".
If there is a 1080ti, it will probably use the same GP102 from the Titan X, but with only 8GB of vRAM. Heck they might even use the GP102 from the P6000. The first Titan came out during the 700 series and the 780ti had a higher-binned GK110 than the Titan, even though the Titan had more vRAM and FP64 support, and a much higher price tag.
Honestly though, it's not all that necessary. The 1080 is a beast of a card. A 1080 ti might not be enough to justify the extra cost this generation. I'd rather they concentrate on getting more 1080's out so I can actually buy one.... at MSRP.
It's a $5000 workstation card. I don't think you will have too much trouble ordering it directly from nVidia.
...it's your own fault for buying more Crapple products. Let go of them, you'll be happier for it.
Apple makes Motorola products now?
And yet Hillary remains free.
See, because most people do it backwards. It's power first, then treason. Do it the wrong way 'round and you risk going to jail.
If it's like most phones you'll bleed out waiting on it to boot up anyway.
Ah, no. You are just not comparing apples to apples. I don't need a prime subscription to rent movies on Amazon, so the movies being there vs on Netflix is meaningless. I can always go to rent it there. Or buy a digital copy. Or buy physical copy (which, for older movies, can actually be cheaper). So when it comes to comparing Amazon Prime Video (which does cost money for the subscription) to Netflix, the Prime Video selection is extremely lacking. There are plenty of movies on that list I can watch on Netflix, for example, but must buy or rent on Amazon since they are not part of Prime.
Fun fact about Google / US Government street view.
License plates are only blurred on client side. Faces too.
Fun fact: stuff you leave out in public view like license plates and your face are not private anyway.
The real reason for people leaving Netflix is the blocking of VPNs and proxies and the dull nature of Netflix original content.
These are valid points to some extent. Netflix's original content isn't that bad, but the fact is that they were formed as a content distributor, not a content producer. And that's the real problem... they have no content to distribute. Netflix has jack shit to watch, whether you have a working VPN or not.
This really hit home about 5 minutes ago when I ran across http://www.cinesift.com/ via a link on HN. Look for the red "Netflix" buttons and you'll see maybe one or two in the first several dozen listings. Those are among the highest-ranked films of all time, across numerous genres. Almost none of them are available on Netflix. Meanwhile, Amazon Video lets you access almost all of them.
If Netflix is going to survive, they cannot simply rely on offering a pathetic assortment of B- and C-level movies for a flat rate of 12 bucks a month or whatever. What they are doing is not working, and it's time to stop trying. They have to start offering optional premium content. I see no other strategy that will keep Netflix from being destroyed by more clued-in players, including but not limited to Amazon.
That is a bullshit comparison. Most of those films are available for RENTAL or PURCHASE on Amazon, not as a part Prime video. You might as well compare Netflix to Amazon's DVD/Blu-Ray selection while you're at it.
Many already do, including Tesla.
Little companies like this as they tend to prefer less fixed cost. Larger companies, companies that tend to vertically integrate prefer fixed costs as they know how to leverage that capital more effectively. At least they used to. This everything-in-the-cloud phenomenon has tended to stupefy C-suites into forgetting this.
Big enterprises tend to be the ones who prefer this type of thing actually, and they have for a long time since those also tend to be the companies where getting CAPEX involves lots of hoop jumping and usually a few satanic ritual sacrifices if it's over a certain threshold. Small companies tend to be more concerned about actual cost. Most big companies would rather lease software, hardware, hell even people.
Many companies prefer these models over buying licenses outright because in many companies CAPEX is much harder to get than OPEX, even if it costs more in the long run. Not to mention most companies already have SA or other yearly contracts so it's not really anything new.
They could strike a deal with ANYONE for $1 a year and it would be more than they are getting now. They could go back to Google or go to MS and get a what they can, it would still be an increase over just the Yahoo money alone.
Plus they could turn around and strike a new deal with another search engine and get more revenue from that deal while still getting paid by Yahoo. It's a no-brainer. It's also a huge hiccup for Yahoo trying to find a buyer though and could prevent a sale at a reasonable price (from Yahoo's perspective) before it runs out or if they could somehow get it modified.
The companies selling dangerous ones will get sued out of existence. The ones selling better ones will thrive. That's the market in action. Hillary doesn't have to get involved every time a kid scratches his knee. -- roman_mir
Or a couple of houses burn down but whatever...
Is the usual li-ion battery circuitry preventing overcharging missing/broken? Does the battery get crushed from the weight of the human? What's going wrong here?
"It can be dangerous!" doesn't tell me anything I don't already know about compact stores of energy.
Cheap, uncertified charging circuit designs and components rushed into production by about a zillion chinese companies trying to cash in on the craze. Combine that with the size of the battery packs (much larger than what you would find in most consumer electronics) and you get a nice, big fire hazard.
You really need help. Or a job if you have this much time on your hands. Lucky for you there are apps for both problems.
It's probably more the fault of cheap charging circuits than the batteries, but since it's the batteries that go WOOSH and burn your house down, they are getting all the credit.
Anti-GMO. The people pushing to prevent technologies that would allow people in third world to continue to live. If we start having food shortages you can bet it won't kill people in North America or Europe, at least not until most of the third world is completely wiped out.
Fuck Greenpeace. They don't want us to "meet the demands of a ballooning global population"
They want us to die.
Anything that doesn't involve hairshirts, self-loathing, and hundreds of millions of dead humans getting off the planet to "let nature heal" is beyond those assholes.
No shit. I'm pretty sure the groups behind the anti-gmo, anti-vax, and anti-medicine movements are really just trying to push a goal of population culling. Let's make sure all those poor people stop consuming resources and just die off. Because, let's face it, it won't be a 1st world problem and the people pushing this shite are certainly not living in the 3rd world.
Bananas are identically cloned plants though, GMO corn and soybeans are not. For the GMO crops they just need the desired genes in the plant. That doesn't require cloning the plant, just careful monitoring and controlled pollination to make sure the desired genes remain dominant. Bananas, Apple Trees, etc, don't grow from seed. Every apple from a particular variety comes from a single parent tree that cuttings were taken from. If you plant the seeds from a honey crisp, for example, you will get an apple tree but it won't have honey crisp apples. Same for bananas. We breed a variety that is popular, then clone that plant via cuttings.
While you can't fix the general weakness of the platform, there's nothing stopping Twitter from slapping on a "VIP" mark on special accounts, which will make any attempt to change passwords, etc, take extra steps and authentications.
That would have made no difference here however, since it wasn't Twitter but another application connected to Twitter that was compromised. They used the compromised application, which had been granted read/write access to their Twitter accounts by the account holders, to post tweets to their Twitter feeds.
You can but in many cases you would need to keep that old version 3 to 4 years, at least for the pro versions, for it to make financial sense. Double that for each PC you need Office on up to 5.
Why should I switch my iPhone to an Android phone again?
How else will Google track you outside your home? You know, so you get just the right ads for your lifestyle. Totally not also going to the NSA or anything.
Doesn't anybody back their crap up?
Sure. But unfortunately ransomware is becoming a common way companies are finding out that they are either not backing everything important up, or their backups are not configure correctly and they don't have the backups they thought they had.