there's fingerprints for illegal media(just full stop illegal to posses, not just to copy) and at least the feds would love to run such a search on the plex servers.
so tell me again why did they repay their another loan in record time and then pursue this presumably more expensive loan?
anyways, it doesn't really matter until they start talking about actual sales... and production....but the one thing that should matter would be just to try to guess if they can make and sell them at a profit. doesn't matter if it's 101001230120 preorders if they can't meet them at profit.
the reason why this is sort of interesting is that they're seeking money this way and that is usually not a very good sign for a company like this in a situation like this. it just isn't. it's a sign that the usual lenders/investors have put on a squeeze on how much they are willing to dump money there and it is getting near to the make or break time - which has been a long time coming in case of tesla.
and now to why it is annoying.. look, if you had been touting henry ford as an industrial genius in 1930 that would have been ooookay. just fine. but if you had been touting ford as an industrial genius in 1901, then you would have had no basis for it. Musk is still in that 1900 moment when it comes to the industries he has been dumping money in - not only his own but others money as well. he has not been reaping money for anyone yet(from tesla, spacex or whatever post paypal) except from pockets of other people.
very few tesla fanbois who adore him for being a rocket-electriccar-SUPERBIZNIZMAN seem to realize that the money in fact was sourced from running a bank that is not a bank that slipped federal regulations while getting all current at that time competitors closed by the feds(for being essentially banks, without regulation).
yes, suddenly his technology and science chops seem a lot fucking less impressive when you realize that the biggest way he made money with so far was by slipping through regulation and being a fly-by-night banker. he hasn't made his wealth with electric cars or engineering stuff, but that is the public image he needed to get the money to dump into tesla, spacex and others.
If several other ventures started offering the same products Musk did
musk offers a maserati competitor. do you think a maserati competitor needs subsidies and please explain the rationale. also there is a lot of competition in the near to 100k car.
meanwhile other companies are and have been offering EV products to compete with gasoline golfs and civics.
why do you think trump fell out of favor with musk?
musk had a wet dream of getting same kind of car taxes for USA that some places of europe have... which for a 80k gasoline car are around 50k-60k. so a maserati that is in USA same price with entry level 80k tesla ends up being 130-140k there which makes tesla a lot better value for money. this tax difference is a LOT smaller with cheaper cars of course. it is this same system that makes hybrid systems basically free for customers in some regions(the tax advantage pays for the hybrid system)
Doesn't make them true though...and if they paid back in advance why are they seeking junk level bonds now? because he is stupid or what?
look, he nees the super businessman/inventor/rich guy public image so that people will give him money. BUT none of his bets during the time in publicity have paid off yet. at what point should government and investors just put a stop to it?
I mean you have just had couple of rockets and rich guys toy cars out of the whole thing.
he is running out of places to smooch money now and the bets better pay off or all of it comes down.
it doesn't really help that basically ALL auto manufacturers are _ready_ to ramp up EV production as soon as the price/market is sensible and it goes into mass market mode.
it doesn't help that tesla doesn't hold any real advantage in any field, be it "auto"pilot, batteries or anything - from the get go tesla just went to market with expensive stuff you could basically, any manufacturer could have, bought from open market and have had a car very quickly - the next models are supposed to fix some of this and give him some unknown manufacturing advantage but that has not realized yet and he needs another billion for it..
at least mortgage backed securities are _supposed_ to be backed by mortgage.
these are.. well these are lending money to someone who should already have the money and should be able to get it somewhere else at better terms but somehow is not getting it.
If you have a samsung and couple of hours I have a solution for you.. if you know a little bit of java.
Samsung phones have firewall apis that you can access with a sdk from samsung and a license code. you can also turn off the wifi with same apis in a way that another app cant open it. also with same api's (and well, if you got admin rights somehow for your app on vanilla android too) you can enable/disable particular services and activities from within the app - this depends on the architecture of the app, but it is possible possibly to just turn off the phone home service.
there are also other things you can do that work on all phones, there's an app on the play store for changing app permissions.
(what it does is repackage the original.apk with different permissions. so you can remove the perm for wifi control from the apk - the app will still have permission for normal http connections though).
now, you might ask why android doesn't give you as the device owner access to all these options just outright from opening the box: because fuck you peon, that's why.
on vanilla android(without rooting) if you want to give admin rights to an app you have to do it BEFORE finishing the first start dialog flow and there isn't that many ways to do that except nfc on some models and a flawed otg auto-apk installer on some other models.
so the samsung extra api's are a case where manufacturer additions to the firmware are actually pretty nice if you use them for yourself instead of someone using them against you.
and if you're buying something that is a fucking bat file on an usb stick as a spy tool on 10000% markup then..
look, this isn't that great of a tool, ground breaking or novel or anything like that. it's hollywood inspired and it has a singular actual purpose: to make whoever sold it to them money.
what it would BETTER be doing would be to load up on the computer and look on the network chinese dvr boxes and hack them. because THAT IS ACTUALLY HOW 99% OF ALL SECURITY CAMS OPERATE NOWADAYS. nobody in the countries they want to attack bothers with installing dvr cards when dvr boxes are cheaper.
for this tool to be of any use you would already need to have so specific knowledge of the people you attack that you might just as well turn off the dvr software running on the computer yourself.
because they don't have info on them or because fsb shit is plastered on the media already when it surfaces?
because really it is. maybe not in the states but in other places it is.. fsb torture hotel etc - and also the suppression of said news inside russia is reported.
you would know if you cared.
however this tool.. eh.. a local program that scans for x processes and local mp4 files and kills them if it is run locally.
super lame but I can see the PITCH that got them to pay money from this. btw the DUMBO in that deal was cia. it sounds like a cool concept if you don't stop to think about it for one bit.
but " Z270 boards, even though the chipsets with the upcoming Z370 appear to be the same".. that matters a few years down the line when you're building a kit from some parts. if the socket is different then it's not that much of a problem.
a more interesting thing would be just.. is it faster in any sort of meaningful way?
come on, olkiluoto 3 is neeeaaarly ready. maybe. possibly.
start of construction was 2005. fixed price contract with areva was 3 billion. estimated actual cost somewhere between 8.5 and 9 billion, with it open who pays the bill(Areva doesn't want to pay it and got smacked into pieces already anyways. Siemens was part of the original contract too).
the lesson there is that don't buy construction from the french since their pricing assumes government handouts in both quality control and purely financial manners.
and well.. supposedly they had not even started to make the automation system before the original delivery date - which should just fucking put the whole fucking bill on the areva remaining assets.
you could code your own, ios lets you do at least that. no promise that contents of textfields will not be sent though.
if you were using a samsung android and wanted to do a coding and you could firewall the keyboard prediction servers or whatever you want(afaik there is no public non-mdm app to use these samsung mdm apis which basically give you almost root access as well access to the firewall, you need to get a developer code to activate said apis from samsung though).
I've been looking for a lightweight non predicting kb for android and nobody seems to have actually made a decent one - they all want to pack in features and skins and smileys and shit or they just say it's lightweight because they didn't put in any features... and they seem to use the android views in a non light way to do their thing as well and use tens of megabytes of memory for something that should be doable with 4mbytes(i'm not pulling this number just out of my ass either. I got a launcher that loads up icons on samsung s6 in 600ms from cold start and uses less than 4 megs once loaded. the samsung launcher uses 100 mbytes).
they were getting too many public comments, getting "flooded" with comments if you will. and flooding is ddos. so therefore, they just stopped reading the stuff or taking them to consideration so the problem is solved.
dafueq who thought of this is a good idea? I guess it's more "clear" in that you don't have to look up what your variable types are or whatever, but it sure sounds like madness.
never really understood most of the appeal of python really, except if you want to avoid curly braces for some reason, but gah, that's just awful and would explain why people are using python2..
never was a fan of languages that break backwards compatibility for no good reason either - I mean, okay, I can understand it if you have two separate branches from the same ancestor language, but if your language is literally python2 and python3.. like, come on.
well there's this thing that you can actually vmware emulation run the stuff to forever already.
the animations you can convert to.. well, mp4.
but as an interesting sidenote, how aware people are of that flash almost became (essentially) what is android now? they had a semi-decent implementation running on mobile phones of flash lite that was less limited than j2me and more easy to program for than symbian (this was around 2004 or so, the time when symbian ruled the 100 to 700 dollar smartphone segment).
developers were itching for it (if you have done some multimedia s60 programming you can know why). it had all the pieces to make regular apps.
BUT macromedia/adobe wanted to SELL it to END USERS for 10 dollars per user! needless to say absofuckinglutely nobody of the end users bought it so making stuff for it was a non starter.
all they would have needed to do at that point in time would have been an online store and give the player vm for free and they would have snapped the multi-manufacturer mobile apps segment in mere months and made android not so wanted(android had a huge market just waiting for it, in users and developers and manufacturers, due to some dubious strategy choices by nokia when it came to security and preferential treatment of "partners").
but had macromedia/adobe played the game just a little bit more smart they would have been raking in billions.
that is, nowadays it seems it's just about a) money b) cheesy pr stunts to get said money.
why do you think it's in vegas and not say in hamburg?
never mind the fact that it was just a brute forcer - ultrasonic detection, xrays, click detection or anything - just brute force an amount a human could brute force!.
like okay, just have it as an exhibit on the show floor.. okay.
but just take a look at the talks. okay there's apple watch jailbreak but thats about it and even that is kind of a who gives a fuck when you can buy open smartwatches for 1/6th of the price
that 'murican cops are trained to shoot if they feel scared.
that's not a joke or an urban myth or anything.. that's literally the aim of the training. to make them shoot (to kill) if they feel scared. also that's the literal opposite of how cops are trained in most of the world.
scared pussies that you pay double the wage that people in other countries get from training to be police for triple the time. yet, you refuse to recognize this is a problem of any sort.
well, they do have some satellite business. at least money from satellite business. but a company only needs to have an office there to claim advantage. think of the whole country like a big fucking coworking space or sealand or whatever..
now if a company has an office in some place where it is illegal to do this sort of thing then they would be fucked, despite it being legal in luxemburg.
all and all it's a pretty meaningless law until it becomes feasible and we can see what other nations declare about it. most probably whatever you can bring back you can keep. that is most probably what you can possess is going to be recognized to be yours whether it is on earth or in mars.
it's actually quite reasonable law to be honest, although fuck all matters anything.. because luxemburg is not a huge market for minerals, so it is unlikely you would be selling your loot there, meaning that their laws don't matter at all vs. french, uk or german laws.
because such local internet schemes have been tried and maybe some are still running.
people prefer the real internet though.
ALL "MESH" NETWORK TRIALS, DREAMS AND HOPES have failed though. I mean such a scheme kind of works to a limited size to distribute warez within a city but that;s about it.
furthermore.. uhh.. that would be moving back like 15 years in many areas where net neutrality has improved. russia for example had for a long time schemes where transfer within the city were free but outside internet access cost more. our university had such a system too(transfer limits on outside access, so we ran an extremely WASTEful inner sharing network. they busted the dc one so eh, the result was just 90% of inside bandwidth being used by a decentralized system..).
and were the internet to cease function for whatever reason, such local networks would pop in mere weeks because the hardware is there. why would you want though if you have the choice to use the real internet?
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there's fingerprints for illegal media(just full stop illegal to posses, not just to copy) and at least the feds would love to run such a search on the plex servers.
anti sell? that's a new.
so tell me again why did they repay their another loan in record time and then pursue this presumably more expensive loan?
anyways, it doesn't really matter until they start talking about actual sales... and production.. ..but the one thing that should matter would be just to try to guess if they can make and sell them at a profit. doesn't matter if it's 101001230120 preorders if they can't meet them at profit.
the reason why this is sort of interesting is that they're seeking money this way and that is usually not a very good sign for a company like this in a situation like this. it just isn't. it's a sign that the usual lenders/investors have put on a squeeze on how much they are willing to dump money there and it is getting near to the make or break time - which has been a long time coming in case of tesla.
and now to why it is annoying.. look, if you had been touting henry ford as an industrial genius in 1930 that would have been ooookay. just fine. but if you had been touting ford as an industrial genius in 1901, then you would have had no basis for it. Musk is still in that 1900 moment when it comes to the industries he has been dumping money in - not only his own but others money as well. he has not been reaping money for anyone yet(from tesla, spacex or whatever post paypal) except from pockets of other people.
very few tesla fanbois who adore him for being a rocket-electriccar-SUPERBIZNIZMAN seem to realize that the money in fact was sourced from running a bank that is not a bank that slipped federal regulations while getting all current at that time competitors closed by the feds(for being essentially banks, without regulation).
yes, suddenly his technology and science chops seem a lot fucking less impressive when you realize that the biggest way he made money with so far was by slipping through regulation and being a fly-by-night banker. he hasn't made his wealth with electric cars or engineering stuff, but that is the public image he needed to get the money to dump into tesla, spacex and others.
"If Telsa can take this money and make 300% returns on it, than this bond deal is amazing for the shareholders!"
If several other ventures started offering the same products Musk did
musk offers a maserati competitor. do you think a maserati competitor needs subsidies and please explain the rationale. also there is a lot of competition in the near to 100k car.
meanwhile other companies are and have been offering EV products to compete with gasoline golfs and civics.
why do you think trump fell out of favor with musk?
musk had a wet dream of getting same kind of car taxes for USA that some places of europe have... which for a 80k gasoline car are around 50k-60k. so a maserati that is in USA same price with entry level 80k tesla ends up being 130-140k there which makes tesla a lot better value for money. this tax difference is a LOT smaller with cheaper cars of course. it is this same system that makes hybrid systems basically free for customers in some regions(the tax advantage pays for the hybrid system)
Musk says a lot of things.
Doesn't make them true though. ..and if they paid back in advance why are they seeking junk level bonds now? because he is stupid or what?
look, he nees the super businessman/inventor/rich guy public image so that people will give him money. BUT none of his bets during the time in publicity have paid off yet. at what point should government and investors just put a stop to it?
I mean you have just had couple of rockets and rich guys toy cars out of the whole thing.
he is running out of places to smooch money now and the bets better pay off or all of it comes down.
it doesn't really help that basically ALL auto manufacturers are _ready_ to ramp up EV production as soon as the price/market is sensible and it goes into mass market mode.
it doesn't help that tesla doesn't hold any real advantage in any field, be it "auto"pilot, batteries or anything - from the get go tesla just went to market with expensive stuff you could basically, any manufacturer could have, bought from open market and have had a car very quickly - the next models are supposed to fix some of this and give him some unknown manufacturing advantage but that has not realized yet and he needs another billion for it..
selling more stock would mean musk/tesla losing stock value, diluting their share.
selling bonds means EVERYONE who holds the stock loses value for that amount. ..are you getting perhaps now why it is being given junk bond ratings?
from what you can analyze it really isn't.
at least mortgage backed securities are _supposed_ to be backed by mortgage.
these are.. well these are lending money to someone who should already have the money and should be able to get it somewhere else at better terms but somehow is not getting it.
...it just seems pretty strange that FCC is repealing a law it has no authority to repeal.
FCC doesn't make the law, it is not up to them to decide if they want to follow it or not, which is exactly the congress guys point?
why bother with congress making any laws if fcc doesn't follow them anyways?
If you have a samsung and couple of hours I have a solution for you.. if you know a little bit of java.
Samsung phones have firewall apis that you can access with a sdk from samsung and a license code. you can also turn off the wifi with same apis in a way that another app cant open it. also with same api's (and well, if you got admin rights somehow for your app on vanilla android too) you can enable/disable particular services and activities from within the app - this depends on the architecture of the app, but it is possible possibly to just turn off the phone home service.
there are also other things you can do that work on all phones, there's an app on the play store for changing app permissions.
(what it does is repackage the original .apk with different permissions. so you can remove the perm for wifi control from the apk - the app will still have permission for normal http connections though).
now, you might ask why android doesn't give you as the device owner access to all these options just outright from opening the box: because fuck you peon, that's why.
on vanilla android(without rooting) if you want to give admin rights to an app you have to do it BEFORE finishing the first start dialog flow and there isn't that many ways to do that except nfc on some models and a flawed otg auto-apk installer on some other models.
so the samsung extra api's are a case where manufacturer additions to the firmware are actually pretty nice if you use them for yourself instead of someone using them against you.
and if you're buying something that is a fucking bat file on an usb stick as a spy tool on 10000% markup then..
look, this isn't that great of a tool, ground breaking or novel or anything like that. it's hollywood inspired and it has a singular actual purpose: to make whoever sold it to them money.
what it would BETTER be doing would be to load up on the computer and look on the network chinese dvr boxes and hack them. because THAT IS ACTUALLY HOW 99% OF ALL SECURITY CAMS OPERATE NOWADAYS. nobody in the countries they want to attack bothers with installing dvr cards when dvr boxes are cheaper.
for this tool to be of any use you would already need to have so specific knowledge of the people you attack that you might just as well turn off the dvr software running on the computer yourself.
Banning advertisements thus banning new competition to the market and adding more tax.
that's the response something else got so..
basically I guess it would be like banning others from making similar chemicals and then just skimming more money from roundup sales.
because they don't have info on them or because fsb shit is plastered on the media already when it surfaces?
because really it is. maybe not in the states but in other places it is.. fsb torture hotel etc - and also the suppression of said news inside russia is reported.
you would know if you cared.
however this tool.. eh.. a local program that scans for x processes and local mp4 files and kills them if it is run locally.
super lame but I can see the PITCH that got them to pay money from this. btw the DUMBO in that deal was cia. it sounds like a cool concept if you don't stop to think about it for one bit.
if it's a different socket, okay.
but " Z270 boards, even though the chipsets with the upcoming Z370 appear to be the same" .. that matters a few years down the line when you're building a kit from some parts. if the socket is different then it's not that much of a problem.
a more interesting thing would be just.. is it faster in any sort of meaningful way?
whoever was paid the money so far in wages and the construction companies that skimmed that money prior to having paid said wages.
also whoever was providing the cement etc.
if the workforce wasn't imported then local whoevers got the money, really.
..edit..
a lot of what they sell in asia are cheaper devices that are generation or 3(!) old.
did they lay out how much of the sales were cheaper devices?
I know apple doesn't huff or puff about it too much, but a lot of what they are selling in asia(through operators, no less)
come on, olkiluoto 3 is neeeaaarly ready. maybe. possibly.
start of construction was 2005. fixed price contract with areva was 3 billion. estimated actual cost somewhere between 8.5 and 9 billion, with it open who pays the bill(Areva doesn't want to pay it and got smacked into pieces already anyways. Siemens was part of the original contract too).
the lesson there is that don't buy construction from the french since their pricing assumes government handouts in both quality control and purely financial manners.
and well.. supposedly they had not even started to make the automation system before the original delivery date - which should just fucking put the whole fucking bill on the areva remaining assets.
you could code your own, ios lets you do at least that.
no promise that contents of textfields will not be sent though.
if you were using a samsung android and wanted to do a coding and you could firewall the keyboard prediction servers or whatever you want(afaik there is no public non-mdm app to use these samsung mdm apis which basically give you almost root access as well access to the firewall, you need to get a developer code to activate said apis from samsung though).
I've been looking for a lightweight non predicting kb for android and nobody seems to have actually made a decent one - they all want to pack in features and skins and smileys and shit or they just say it's lightweight because they didn't put in any features... and they seem to use the android views in a non light way to do their thing as well and use tens of megabytes of memory for something that should be doable with 4mbytes(i'm not pulling this number just out of my ass either. I got a launcher that loads up icons on samsung s6 in 600ms from cold start and uses less than 4 megs once loaded. the samsung launcher uses 100 mbytes).
-- just stop accepting public comments?
well, actually, yeah. that is their plan.
they were getting too many public comments, getting "flooded" with comments if you will. and flooding is ddos. so therefore, they just stopped reading the stuff or taking them to consideration so the problem is solved.
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dafueq who thought of this is a good idea? I guess it's more "clear" in that you don't have to look up what your variable types are or whatever, but it sure sounds like madness.
never really understood most of the appeal of python really, except if you want to avoid curly braces for some reason, but gah, that's just awful and would explain why people are using python2..
never was a fan of languages that break backwards compatibility for no good reason either - I mean, okay, I can understand it if you have two separate branches from the same ancestor language, but if your language is literally python2 and python3.. like, come on.
well there's this thing that you can actually vmware emulation run the stuff to forever already.
the animations you can convert to .. well, mp4.
but as an interesting sidenote, how aware people are of that flash almost became (essentially) what is android now? they had a semi-decent implementation running on mobile phones of flash lite that was less limited than j2me and more easy to program for than symbian (this was around 2004 or so, the time when symbian ruled the 100 to 700 dollar smartphone segment).
developers were itching for it (if you have done some multimedia s60 programming you can know why). it had all the pieces to make regular apps.
BUT macromedia/adobe wanted to SELL it to END USERS for 10 dollars per user! needless to say absofuckinglutely nobody of the end users bought it so making stuff for it was a non starter.
all they would have needed to do at that point in time would have been an online store and give the player vm for free and they would have snapped the multi-manufacturer mobile apps segment in mere months and made android not so wanted(android had a huge market just waiting for it, in users and developers and manufacturers, due to some dubious strategy choices by nokia when it came to security and preferential treatment of "partners").
but had macromedia/adobe played the game just a little bit more smart they would have been raking in billions.
it's defcon.
that is, nowadays it seems it's just about a) money b) cheesy pr stunts to get said money.
why do you think it's in vegas and not say in hamburg?
never mind the fact that it was just a brute forcer - ultrasonic detection, xrays, click detection or anything - just brute force an amount a human could brute force!.
like okay, just have it as an exhibit on the show floor.. okay.
but just take a look at the talks. okay there's apple watch jailbreak but thats about it and even that is kind of a who gives a fuck when you can buy open smartwatches for 1/6th of the price
What the fuck are you talking about, weirdo?
that 'murican cops are trained to shoot if they feel scared.
that's not a joke or an urban myth or anything.. that's literally the aim of the training. to make them shoot (to kill) if they feel scared. also that's the literal opposite of how cops are trained in most of the world.
scared pussies that you pay double the wage that people in other countries get from training to be police for triple the time. yet, you refuse to recognize this is a problem of any sort.
well, they do have some satellite business. at least money from satellite business. but a company only needs to have an office there to claim advantage. think of the whole country like a big fucking coworking space or sealand or whatever..
now if a company has an office in some place where it is illegal to do this sort of thing then they would be fucked, despite it being legal in luxemburg.
all and all it's a pretty meaningless law until it becomes feasible and we can see what other nations declare about it. most probably whatever you can bring back you can keep. that is most probably what you can possess is going to be recognized to be yours whether it is on earth or in mars.
it's actually quite reasonable law to be honest, although fuck all matters anything.. because luxemburg is not a huge market for minerals, so it is unlikely you would be selling your loot there, meaning that their laws don't matter at all vs. french, uk or german laws.
because such local internet schemes have been tried and maybe some are still running.
people prefer the real internet though.
ALL "MESH" NETWORK TRIALS, DREAMS AND HOPES have failed though. I mean such a scheme kind of works to a limited size to distribute warez within a city but that;s about it.
furthermore.. uhh.. that would be moving back like 15 years in many areas where net neutrality has improved. russia for example had for a long time schemes where transfer within the city were free but outside internet access cost more. our university had such a system too(transfer limits on outside access, so we ran an extremely WASTEful inner sharing network. they busted the dc one so eh, the result was just 90% of inside bandwidth being used by a decentralized system..).
and were the internet to cease function for whatever reason, such local networks would pop in mere weeks because the hardware is there. why would you want though if you have the choice to use the real internet?