thats exactly the thing why they want it in USA rather than NZ.
because it no longer matters in USA if you can win in court because YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
plea bargains are such bullshit in both ways. it's a travesty.
for example, there's far more murders in usa than there are convicted murderers - and same applies to all other kind of cases.
as if what happened depends on if you plea guilty or not - how the fuck is that even supposed to work? now i'm all right with giving more lenient sentences to people who confess but changing the crime based on if you get a confession or not is a travesty on the world of statistics.. and well, morals too.
not to mention of course that you're not supposed to even get a more lenient sentence for confessing because you're not supposed to witness against yourself in the first place.
the system, feds, mpaa and some of the new zealand officials can't just drop the case either now since they are all so deep in it that if the case gets dropped without getting him into a court in usa then they're all in deep doodoo already.
basically, what MPAA, FBI etc. want is for fatty fat pants to get dragged into a US court and make him do a plea bargain - since otherwise they're on the hook for fucking up the investigation in many shady ways from day 0. someone(mpaa?) pushed them into this years ago now and now they're already so deep in damages and questionable conduit that the real question is under what authority did they even do everything they did.
like, they don't even want the normal court proceedings - they just want some kind of a plea bargain to get them off the hook. that way it never goes to actual court.
also - how the fuck do you change the reason for extradition in the middle of extradition hearings anyways?
if they wanted just an actual court they might just as well have done that inside new zealand.
trump doesn't understand that or if he does then he thinks he can have an advantage of the situation, he was brought up during the cold war years and for that period there's like two powers in the world, usa and russia. his followers understand this much. makes it a lot easier for him to deal with china when he doesn't understand them too and they are "outside" of the power game(when they really aren't).
for Putin it suits well because Trump doesn't want Putin out of the office, trump doesn't care if Russia is democratic or not. if anything trump would want to have the same powers Putin has.
it's just a move towards back to windows 2000 gui rules.
you know, like input text boxes looking like input text boxes and buttons being distinctly buttons.
they make it sound all fancy and all that, but thats what it is. basically they're reinventing the wheel they spent tens of millions dollars to research in mid and early '90s.
a good example of how the current metro design language is fucked up is just the windows 10 installer. you have _choices_ where the other choice is a distinct box and the another choice is something that looks like a hyperlink buried in the text - both of these behave the same (take you to the next screen with the choice you made) but look totally different to the point that most users aren't even aware there is a choice to install it without a microsoft account.
But, the idea of universal income is that you can do away with all the other social security mechanisms and give people enough that they can survive. This means that then you CAN take extra jobs for a little less money.
Basically in Finland now you CAN NOT take a job that pays under a certain amount in the month because then you will be out of other benefits and you can't survive! but if you would have universal income then you COULD do another job for even 5 bucks / hour, making a lot more jobs viable.
the thing in finland is that the government is obliged ALREADY to provide basic social security to everyone through one way or another but the burocracy for that is very heavy. If you would roll up all the benefits into one, including housing benefits, and just give that to everyone it would be cheaper, easier and enable you to work at the same time.
also it would put pressure to provide housing in which you could live with that.
it would be feasible to take jobs like mowing your neighbors lawn for couple of bucks - right now it really isn't if you're unemployed as you would get kicked out of unemployment status(potentially, or get a quarantine).
Basically it enables a lot of smaller jobs to be done vs. just putting everyone in the social security/unemployment benefits which deny the possibility to take low paying jobs for couple of days every now and then.
as such it would enable manufacturing and service jobs that are not feasible right now, but more importantly you could just fire most of the burocrats out of a cannon into the moon.
why isn't this already being done fullscale in Finland? well duh the buros don't want to lose their jobs too(also in some cities the waiting time to get a social security hearing is longer than even legally allowed.. ).
it would be rather simple to implement too. just make the progressive taxing that finland has just a little bit more progressive, so that people earning (pre tax) 2700e / month or so would be sitting at the same income level of money to the hand (universal basic income would be given to _everyone_ - even those who have good jobs and don't need it. thats what makes it UNIVERSAL and makes it unnecessary to have the burocracy around it).
well, android accessory manufacturers don't need to pay anyone(maybe usb blabla consortium only).
thing is, with apple, they can't go to a standard port because they want money from every fucking cable - and the cables break and they know that and they want money for them, because fuck you.
you see, they're already tracking everyone so they'll just make these computer generated faces to track them.
(you can't track people effectivey with a 8x8 image. you could however generate fake evidence that shows that it _could_ match this and this dude, or even 99% of population.).
Many, many BT headsets, e.g. Samsung's, are much more expensive.
thats not really it though is it? samsung has bt audio sets starting from 50 bucks and going to the 250 range, at which point you get pretty decent over the ear design already...
apple on the other hand sells what is essentially a worse version of samsungs cheapest offering at triple the price.
of course you would want them connected at least to each other..
non validating html and css in a project that is otherwise secure is still better than something that gets pwned.
look, people don't need to be experts in ALL domains. they just need to think "how the snotty boy next door is going to pwn this" and that's already enough. however the way things go nowadays is that people throw together a template prototype and the management sells that as a product to the customer - eos - then IF the project is something that actually makes money then MAYBE it is thought through again from any kind of security viewpoint,
if project management happens to separate concerns in the project enough that only the project management(who doesn't understand or car) would know all the things to answer that question then the problem is right there.
so your view is a pretty moran view. nobody cares if the html and css validates- they care if it renders. and on the other hand nobody fucking cares if your html and css validates if it doesn't render in the browser the audience of the website is using!
the pattern lock is just pincodes - where you have to select the next number to be next to the previous(in whatever size grid you got).
and there is a fix for that, don't use pattern and use pin.
the article is fucking stupid though, that you can watch someone enter the pattern then lets you deduce the pattern is WILDY different than cracking it in 5 attempts cold.
i'm sure everyone with broken hands, paralysis, tremors and whatever appreciates voice interfaces - however the point is that then you are using a secondary interface because you can't use the better interface because of reasons.
which doesn't really mean that it's a better interface - after all it's a secondary one.
and frankly I'd have to disagree of typing being the cause of the wear and tear... it's just as likely your hands would be hurting even if you hadn't typed messages before.
consequently, blind people appreciate accessibility features as well - which is kind of a poopy situation as well since smartphones from 2003 had better blind user support than modern phones and the apps made for them.
thats why vpn biz is such a booming industry now.. because companies are actually trying to pull this thing off already.
they've been trying to do this exact thing with books, with software, with movies & etc for a long ass time already now.
the askslashdot is from a bizarro world. besides, it's already cheaper in poorer countries as they in general don't have VAT/sales tax anyways. basically this makes everything on steam 7-14% cheaper in any 3rd world country.
BUT.. you know. For example samsung has api's to enable packages and parts of packages that are built in and not normally possible to disable. but you have to use their mdm api's to do that which needs a (free) key from samsung.
same api's offer an _actual_ firewall.
and yes you can break things by dicking around with it and no it does not break the "root detection" system of samsung, despite giving you almost practically root abilities.
the package management api is a built in android api but which is not accessible on FUCKING ANY NORMAL ANDROID PHONE without dicking around with escalating privileges using manufacturer specific api's.
it's kinda shitty really. the reason why it's so crap is of course that it's trivial to block ads etc stuff if you have access to these api's - however in order to deploy the devices to kiosk etc use you pretty much have to have this ability, which is why manufacturers are giving you this ability but you need to jump through some hoops to get it.
4.5h sounds about right if the computer is doing something.
19.5 hours sounds about right if it somehow got disconnected from the net and all the pieces pinging the internet stopped to run magically, keeping the load low and also the performance setting was set to low.
and look at the wording "OPERATE". that doesn't mean doing anything... and if it's the day that it wants to download updates over wifi sure as f it's not going to have 10h+.
problem with apple testing their own hw is of course that they can make it run a "normal use scenario" that is not normal at all if you have anything installed or if any preinstalled stuff from store wants to update itself.
I wouldn't call the economic sanctions a total free pass.
There's very little else to do though, apart from more sanctions and more bombs. What they should do really would be to hack russian newspapers, obviously.
giving it to out someone else than police investigating it would be the same as doxxing.
it's a really bad precedent. since it wasn't the police asking it. you're mixing up a legal request with a letter from a lawyer basically or rather a legal request with a legal _REQUIREMENT_.
furthermore if sending flashy pictures on the internet is now illegal, can we sue everyone using blink tag and advertising their page in some way?
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thats exactly the thing why they want it in USA rather than NZ.
because it no longer matters in USA if you can win in court because YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
plea bargains are such bullshit in both ways. it's a travesty.
for example, there's far more murders in usa than there are convicted murderers - and same applies to all other kind of cases.
as if what happened depends on if you plea guilty or not - how the fuck is that even supposed to work? now i'm all right with giving more lenient sentences to people who confess but changing the crime based on if you get a confession or not is a travesty on the world of statistics.. and well, morals too.
not to mention of course that you're not supposed to even get a more lenient sentence for confessing because you're not supposed to witness against yourself in the first place.
the system, feds, mpaa and some of the new zealand officials can't just drop the case either now since they are all so deep in it that if the case gets dropped without getting him into a court in usa then they're all in deep doodoo already.
basically, what MPAA, FBI etc. want is for fatty fat pants to get dragged into a US court and make him do a plea bargain - since otherwise they're on the hook for fucking up the investigation in many shady ways from day 0. someone(mpaa?) pushed them into this years ago now and now they're already so deep in damages and questionable conduit that the real question is under what authority did they even do everything they did.
like, they don't even want the normal court proceedings - they just want some kind of a plea bargain to get them off the hook. that way it never goes to actual court.
also - how the fuck do you change the reason for extradition in the middle of extradition hearings anyways?
if they wanted just an actual court they might just as well have done that inside new zealand.
trump doesn't understand that or if he does then he thinks he can have an advantage of the situation, he was brought up during the cold war years and for that period there's like two powers in the world, usa and russia. his followers understand this much. makes it a lot easier for him to deal with china when he doesn't understand them too and they are "outside" of the power game(when they really aren't).
for Putin it suits well because Trump doesn't want Putin out of the office, trump doesn't care if Russia is democratic or not. if anything trump would want to have the same powers Putin has.
playboy is more of a brand than anything nowadays.
also playboy does some non-nude variations internationally already.
the thai version is non-nude for example.. and they got a thai tv channel thats non-nude too.
this new "we'll have nudes but they're not going to be 100% sexual but just natural" thing sounds like a disaster though.
it's just a move towards back to windows 2000 gui rules.
you know, like input text boxes looking like input text boxes and buttons being distinctly buttons.
they make it sound all fancy and all that, but thats what it is. basically they're reinventing the wheel they spent tens of millions dollars to research in mid and early '90s.
a good example of how the current metro design language is fucked up is just the windows 10 installer. you have _choices_ where the other choice is a distinct box and the another choice is something that looks like a hyperlink buried in the text - both of these behave the same (take you to the next screen with the choice you made) but look totally different to the point that most users aren't even aware there is a choice to install it without a microsoft account.
Trying it in kenya seems strange.
But, the idea of universal income is that you can do away with all the other social security mechanisms and give people enough that they can survive. This means that then you CAN take extra jobs for a little less money.
Basically in Finland now you CAN NOT take a job that pays under a certain amount in the month because then you will be out of other benefits and you can't survive! but if you would have universal income then you COULD do another job for even 5 bucks / hour, making a lot more jobs viable.
the thing in finland is that the government is obliged ALREADY to provide basic social security to everyone through one way or another but the burocracy for that is very heavy. If you would roll up all the benefits into one, including housing benefits, and just give that to everyone it would be cheaper, easier and enable you to work at the same time.
also it would put pressure to provide housing in which you could live with that.
it would be feasible to take jobs like mowing your neighbors lawn for couple of bucks - right now it really isn't if you're unemployed as you would get kicked out of unemployment status(potentially, or get a quarantine).
Basically it enables a lot of smaller jobs to be done vs. just putting everyone in the social security/unemployment benefits which deny the possibility to take low paying jobs for couple of days every now and then.
as such it would enable manufacturing and service jobs that are not feasible right now, but more importantly you could just fire most of the burocrats out of a cannon into the moon.
why isn't this already being done fullscale in Finland? well duh the buros don't want to lose their jobs too(also in some cities the waiting time to get a social security hearing is longer than even legally allowed.. ).
it would be rather simple to implement too. just make the progressive taxing that finland has just a little bit more progressive, so that people earning (pre tax) 2700e / month or so would be sitting at the same income level of money to the hand (universal basic income would be given to _everyone_ - even those who have good jobs and don't need it. thats what makes it UNIVERSAL and makes it unnecessary to have the burocracy around it).
well, android accessory manufacturers don't need to pay anyone(maybe usb blabla consortium only).
thing is, with apple, they can't go to a standard port because they want money from every fucking cable - and the cables break and they know that and they want money for them, because fuck you.
nonono.
ways to track people they made UP on the spot!
you see, they're already tracking everyone so they'll just make these computer generated faces to track them.
(you can't track people effectivey with a 8x8 image. you could however generate fake evidence that shows that it _could_ match this and this dude, or even 99% of population.).
Many, many BT headsets, e.g. Samsung's, are much more expensive.
thats not really it though is it? samsung has bt audio sets starting from 50 bucks and going to the 250 range, at which point you get pretty decent over the ear design already...
apple on the other hand sells what is essentially a worse version of samsungs cheapest offering at triple the price.
of course you would want them connected at least to each other..
non validating html and css in a project that is otherwise secure is still better than something that gets pwned.
look, people don't need to be experts in ALL domains. they just need to think "how the snotty boy next door is going to pwn this" and that's already enough. however the way things go nowadays is that people throw together a template prototype and the management sells that as a product to the customer - eos - then IF the project is something that actually makes money then MAYBE it is thought through again from any kind of security viewpoint,
if project management happens to separate concerns in the project enough that only the project management(who doesn't understand or car) would know all the things to answer that question then the problem is right there.
so your view is a pretty moran view. nobody cares if the html and css validates- they care if it renders. and on the other hand nobody fucking cares if your html and css validates if it doesn't render in the browser the audience of the website is using!
say that you're travelling to finland..
a month of unlimited 3g/4g is about 10 bucks with a local sim.
the pattern lock is just pincodes - where you have to select the next number to be next to the previous(in whatever size grid you got).
and there is a fix for that, don't use pattern and use pin.
the article is fucking stupid though, that you can watch someone enter the pattern then lets you deduce the pattern is WILDY different than cracking it in 5 attempts cold.
yeah voice use is an accessability thing.
i'm sure everyone with broken hands, paralysis, tremors and whatever appreciates voice interfaces - however the point is that then you are using a secondary interface because you can't use the better interface because of reasons.
which doesn't really mean that it's a better interface - after all it's a secondary one.
and frankly I'd have to disagree of typing being the cause of the wear and tear... it's just as likely your hands would be hurting even if you hadn't typed messages before.
consequently, blind people appreciate accessibility features as well - which is kind of a poopy situation as well since smartphones from 2003 had better blind user support than modern phones and the apps made for them.
it became a real job when you have to do it 8 hours a day to keep it.
uber driving became a real job when you leased a car from uber and paying off that car means that you have to drive 15 hours a day.
on the other hand, if it wasnt a real job and it wasnt fun either why the fuck would you be doing it?
it's there because james may is obsessed with them.
anyways.. they're toy trains popular in the UK when toy trains became popular.
haha.
it doesn't actually work.
thats why vpn biz is such a booming industry now.. because companies are actually trying to pull this thing off already.
they've been trying to do this exact thing with books, with software, with movies & etc for a long ass time already now.
the askslashdot is from a bizarro world. besides, it's already cheaper in poorer countries as they in general don't have VAT/sales tax anyways. basically this makes everything on steam 7-14% cheaper in any 3rd world country.
because.
1) they are doing it(I bought doom 10 euros cheaper than in europe. chinese blurays are all the rage in asia. some of them legit).
2) the price of producing software is not really dependent on how much money the buyer of the software has.
3) are you really so fucking daft that you want to make it illegal to gray import software? seriously? you want a full on trade war or what?
and you'll have to enable root on them anyways.
BUT .. you know. For example samsung has api's to enable packages and parts of packages that are built in and not normally possible to disable. but you have to use their mdm api's to do that which needs a (free) key from samsung.
same api's offer an _actual_ firewall.
and yes you can break things by dicking around with it and no it does not break the "root detection" system of samsung, despite giving you almost practically root abilities.
the package management api is a built in android api but which is not accessible on FUCKING ANY NORMAL ANDROID PHONE without dicking around with escalating privileges using manufacturer specific api's.
it's kinda shitty really. the reason why it's so crap is of course that it's trivial to block ads etc stuff if you have access to these api's - however in order to deploy the devices to kiosk etc use you pretty much have to have this ability, which is why manufacturers are giving you this ability but you need to jump through some hoops to get it.
russian fighter numbers are a joke.
they got good tech, but can't really afford that many of the modern fighters now.
how about 20-30 bucks?
christssakes, even nokia x (an android nokia) was 80 bucks _new_ couple of years ago.
there's many unsubsidized smartphones you can choose for under 100 bucks. many, many MANY.
4.5h sounds about right if the computer is doing something.
19.5 hours sounds about right if it somehow got disconnected from the net and all the pieces pinging the internet stopped to run magically, keeping the load low and also the performance setting was set to low.
and look at the wording "OPERATE". that doesn't mean doing anything... and if it's the day that it wants to download updates over wifi sure as f it's not going to have 10h+.
problem with apple testing their own hw is of course that they can make it run a "normal use scenario" that is not normal at all if you have anything installed or if any preinstalled stuff from store wants to update itself.
I wouldn't call the economic sanctions a total free pass.
There's very little else to do though, apart from more sanctions and more bombs. What they should do really would be to hack russian newspapers, obviously.
giving it to out someone else than police investigating it would be the same as doxxing.
it's a really bad precedent. since it wasn't the police asking it. you're mixing up a legal request with a letter from a lawyer basically or rather a legal request with a legal _REQUIREMENT_.
furthermore if sending flashy pictures on the internet is now illegal, can we sue everyone using blink tag and advertising their page in some way?
well yeah.
mind you that when google does it, then it's not fraud. only when some "crooks" do it.
also they were creating fake accounts, which counts as fraud of some kind depending on where the "crime" of creating them took place.
yeah it's basically a new tax and making it sure that you buy only ms and apple products.