There's a certain kind of mentality that drives some people to see vaping as just another form of smoking, which they also consider to be evil. It's why we see these attempts at laws, particularly under the "think of the children" banner.
I think at least a good part of that is caused by the most visible and obnoxious subset of e-cig users: the cloud chasers. Their goal is to create as big mist clouds as possible, by far exceeding what cigarette smokers do. They deliberately use mixes high in vegetable glycerin, and use low resistance atomizers that increase the amount of mist produced to the maximum. And completely ruin it for the ones who go out of their ways to be discreet and get a personal fix so they won't go for a cigarette.
I think the problem is more cloud chasers that are ignorant of those around them, not necessarily the clouds on their own. I found high VG more... filling than regular vape. And you get away with far less nicotine. But subjecting others to it is definitely rude.
A co-worker and I were waiting in queue at the drive through at Tim Horton's one winter's day last year. To pass the time we rolled up the windows and domed the car with vape to the point he could barely see to drive forward. The look on the drive through attendants face when he rolled down the window was priceless.
I assume is a 24hr working day and does not include all bureaucrat approvals.
In Italy, you need 100 days just to have the request for planning being considered.... (Yes, this is one of the reasons we are going down the drain)
Looking forward for how this "bet" pans out.
From the summary "100 days from contract signature or it is free." I assume they would wait to sign the contract until after the bureaucracy has been settled?
I have them and generally have been happy with their service...but it looks like it's porting time. Pity because they have always given me good service and the CSRs seem to be decent. No Android? No customer.
From what I can tell, they are only selling iPhones. You could quite likely bring your own (non Apple) device. Of course, not sure what incentive there would be to do so.
Interestingly, selecting countries on PYPL shows that Python is #1 in the US, France and UK. India and Germany have Java #1.
Not that it's an indication of anything, really. Right tool for the right job. The projects being worked on in Java probably don't lend themselves well to Python and vice versa.
I mean he's dead, the story was written 100 years ago but I guess they will change the law again, so that his grand-grand-grand-grand-children won't have to lift a finger and actually _work_.
From the summary even, it was edited by this son. How does that constitute not working? Furthermore, if the story was never published, why should it be placed in the public domain. Seems to me it would be property of his estate.
This Siri device is likely closest, since it will probably work with iTunes home sharing, but no support for an SMB share full of music files.
I'm pretty good at maintaining my music library's metadata, not all are. Many have vastly different ways of organizing their music folders. So how pray tell is this mythical device of yours to determine what song you are actually trying to play, and where to find it? Would you not be frustrated if you ask for "Thunderstruck," the device says it cannot find a song by that name, but you can clearly see "ACDC_RE-Track1.mp3" in the folder "to_sort_later" under your SMB share?
On of the reasons these devices rely on the cloud, is they own the metadata, so it's relatively easy to honour requests. They also know where to find said track to stream it to you.
An hour time slot is filled with 40 minutes of actual content, the remainder being commercials. There's no better painful reminder of this than Netflix. Go back and find a show from the 80s, or the 90s and note the playtime, and compare it to today. And the way the bundles are set up, you end up having to pay an extra $40 just to get the one channel that was actually worthwhile.
There was a time where TLC was actually about learning. And A&E was about arts and entertainment. They are an utter waste of time now.
Windows NT came out a year after OS/2 had a working UI and supported existing hardware. OS/2 only really worked on IBM's PS/2's. Windows NT quickly surpassed OS/2's reliability despite the fact that it ran on a much wider variety of hardware.
OS/2 had a UI years before NT was released, in 1988.
Star Trek has always been quite diverse, by TV standards.
Pilot - Number One was a woman Original Series - Black woman, east Asian man, Russian and Scot in the main cast Next Generation - Many female and black characters, Picard was French Deep Space 9 - Black captain Voyager - Female captain and chief engineer, Native American second in command
I didn't even mention the black/east Asian members of the crew in the later ones, they were so normal (for Trek) by that point. And Janeway was originally going to be French too, but they replaced the actor after some test footage didn't turn out as they had hoped.
They were diverse, but up until Voyager, they weren't pushing an agenda. I remember an interview with Kate Mulgrew, slightly before the premiere of Voyager. To paraphrase "[Janeway] is a woman and the best captain in starfleet." But it was toned in such a way that you would expect that the woman part was a disadvantage where the Treks before had already, at least in the fiction, dissolved that prejudice. Voyager felt very forced; black vulcan, woman half Klingon, native american. As though there were trying to make a point of how diverse they were being, rather than just being diverse."
If Sony had allowed straight MP3s to be burned onto Mini-Discs, it would have beat the pants off the solid state MP3 players for the first 3-5 years they existed. The only thing that stopped mini-disc from dominating was Sony. I bought a mini-disc walkman after i had a 64 MB MP3 player that died. It wasnt until i got home i realized how terrible Sony's process for getting music on the device was.
The reason Minidisc didn't use MP3 was that enconding MP3 was very processor intensive (at the time) where a 286 equivalent processor could both comfortably encode and decode ATRAC. Recording was a big boon for Minidisc.
I must not have been clear: I wasn't advocating for any platform, or walled gardens. I was saying that maybe we should consider Android to be something nobody should use until its security problems are addressed - just like its competition.
That we can accept as a community that Android has a serious problem that needs solving, and needs to join its competition in the leper colony?
Walled gardens aren't a solution to the problem. The piece of the puzzle that keeps the platform you alluded to less vulnerable is that OS updates are available at the same time, for every supported device. While with android (with some notable exceptions) you are at the whim of the telcos AND vendors to get updates, if you ever do. The fractured landscape is the major issue.
Of course, after rereading the/. summary and title again, I can see how people might misinterpret the findings of this study, since the linked article is much more careful not to jump to grand conclusions, and explicitly mentions that they don't believe the psychedelic experience to necessarily be a "better" state of consciousness. But expecting anyone to actually RTFA instead of basing their opinions on the/. title is silly, I guess.
Once shouldn't expect anyone to RTFA. A study, not dissimilar to the one linked in the summary, deals entirely with an activity called RTFS. It clearly demonstrated that merely reading a couple of sentences will significantly increase activity in the area of the brain responsible for omniscience.
It's scary because "OK Google" isn't necessarily the only trigger word. The attacker only needs to convince the trigger algorithm. If they discover a sound or sounds that are innocuous but trigger it then they can trigger devices without being obvious about it.
I feel the solution is to fingerprint each voice that says OK Google. If the voice is not recognized, or if the device has been rebooted or even if a certain amount of time has passed, the device should ask the user to supply their passphrase before proceeding. All of these things should be stored and processed locally.
That would effectively stop this form of attack, while giving me the opportunity to finally unlock a device with "Solent Green is People"
So the sirens sound, and presumably the North Koreans have a nuclear strike on the way. And what do the good citizens do? _nothing_. Only 4400 actually tried to figure out what was wrong; the rest simply ignored it.
You might as well get rid of the entire system, nobody cares about it anyway...
Considering that the sirens are to get people indoors in the event of Severe Weather and that most people were probably indoors when they went off, it's not surprising they did _nothing_ apart from what they are supposed to do - monitor radio and television.
You mean, once it was shown that there was no more headroom in it and it wouldn't scale past about 400 MHz? What a bargain! Meanwhile, AMD also got the only interesting part of Alpha, the bus. That was almost as good a buy as when Intel bought an ARM core (XScale) and then ironically couldn't get it to "scale" down; it was the fastest ARM core, but it was also the most power-hungry by far.
Not sure where you're going with that. The EV9 was (Well would have been) 2Ghz IIRC, the EV6 was 1Ghz, and it was the first past the 1Ghz finish line. But I wasn't alluding to the Alpha itself, but the patent portfolio that came with it, for example, the bits of the EV8 that made it into Intel's 64-bit processor design.
But Intel was able to outspend their RISC competitors on R&D, holding their ground until chips became complex enough that process and ISA independent features dominated.
Don't forget getting DEC Alpha at bargain bin discount prices.
Android didn't move a single thing. Android is an operating system. You could drill down further and say "Linux sold more units" which is still as apt a comparison.
iPad on the other hand is a product, the vendor is Apple. Did Samsung move more tablets? LG? Google? They are all competitors so lumping them together is hardly a valid argument. But you would still need to pick any two other vendors to align with Apple's share.
It's the most popular, best selling smart watch... Well, yeah, it's also pretty much the only choice for iOS users, where as Android users have a wide variety to choose from and thus sales of individual models are diluted. Apple only does one model per year too, because even with the various straps and colours they all count as "Apple Watch 1" sales.
There is Android Wear support for iOS. Same with Pebble and FitBit, etc. etc. Apple Watch is an additional option for iPhone users, not the only one.
I feel like it's just a matter of perspective. The watch market as whole has never really been as significant as the phone or PC market, thus comparing the apples watch compared to iPhone or Mac sales makes it look like a failure, but within it's sector it is a strong competitor. It certainly hasn't take then world by storm the way that the iPad and iPhone have been able to, but at least hast been a strong contender for watches. So I'd say the watch has been a viable product, but no great success.
According to TFA, Sales estimates put the Apple Watch on par with Mac sales for the same quarter. If true that is very significant. Of course that likely has a lot to do with Apple almost completely ignoring its desktops...
If it's a success, nobody is required to admit, we'll see it everywhere and in the press, like iPods (in the past) or iPhones today.
Fair enough, but the claim comes from their Q1 quarterly earnings call. I'd say they would be remiss in NOT admitting it were a success, given the target audience is investors.
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There's a certain kind of mentality that drives some people to see vaping as just another form of smoking, which they also consider to be evil. It's why we see these attempts at laws, particularly under the "think of the children" banner.
I think at least a good part of that is caused by the most visible and obnoxious subset of e-cig users: the cloud chasers. Their goal is to create as big mist clouds as possible, by far exceeding what cigarette smokers do. They deliberately use mixes high in vegetable glycerin, and use low resistance atomizers that increase the amount of mist produced to the maximum.
And completely ruin it for the ones who go out of their ways to be discreet and get a personal fix so they won't go for a cigarette.
I think the problem is more cloud chasers that are ignorant of those around them, not necessarily the clouds on their own. I found high VG more... filling than regular vape. And you get away with far less nicotine. But subjecting others to it is definitely rude.
A co-worker and I were waiting in queue at the drive through at Tim Horton's one winter's day last year. To pass the time we rolled up the windows and domed the car with vape to the point he could barely see to drive forward. The look on the drive through attendants face when he rolled down the window was priceless.
I am particularly amazed by the 100 working days.
I assume is a 24hr working day and does not include all bureaucrat approvals.
In Italy, you need 100 days just to have the request for planning being considered....
(Yes, this is one of the reasons we are going down the drain)
Looking forward for how this "bet" pans out.
From the summary "100 days from contract signature or it is free." I assume they would wait to sign the contract until after the bureaucracy has been settled?
I have them and generally have been happy with their service...but it looks like it's porting time. Pity because they have always given me good service and the CSRs seem to be decent. No Android? No customer.
From what I can tell, they are only selling iPhones. You could quite likely bring your own (non Apple) device. Of course, not sure what incentive there would be to do so.
Interestingly, selecting countries on PYPL shows that Python is #1 in the US, France and UK. India and Germany have Java #1.
Not that it's an indication of anything, really. Right tool for the right job. The projects being worked on in Java probably don't lend themselves well to Python and vice versa.
I mean he's dead, the story was written 100 years ago but I guess they will change the law again, so that his grand-grand-grand-grand-children won't have to lift a finger and actually _work_.
From the summary even, it was edited by this son. How does that constitute not working? Furthermore, if the story was never published, why should it be placed in the public domain. Seems to me it would be property of his estate.
This Siri device is likely closest, since it will probably work with iTunes home sharing, but no support for an SMB share full of music files.
I'm pretty good at maintaining my music library's metadata, not all are. Many have vastly different ways of organizing their music folders. So how pray tell is this mythical device of yours to determine what song you are actually trying to play, and where to find it? Would you not be frustrated if you ask for "Thunderstruck," the device says it cannot find a song by that name, but you can clearly see "ACDC_RE-Track1.mp3" in the folder "to_sort_later" under your SMB share?
On of the reasons these devices rely on the cloud, is they own the metadata, so it's relatively easy to honour requests. They also know where to find said track to stream it to you.
An hour time slot is filled with 40 minutes of actual content, the remainder being commercials. There's no better painful reminder of this than Netflix. Go back and find a show from the 80s, or the 90s and note the playtime, and compare it to today. And the way the bundles are set up, you end up having to pay an extra $40 just to get the one channel that was actually worthwhile.
There was a time where TLC was actually about learning. And A&E was about arts and entertainment. They are an utter waste of time now.
Choke on your lost profits, cable companies.
Windows NT came out a year after OS/2 had a working UI and supported existing hardware. OS/2 only really worked on IBM's PS/2's. Windows NT quickly surpassed OS/2's reliability despite the fact that it ran on a much wider variety of hardware.
OS/2 had a UI years before NT was released, in 1988.
Star Trek has always been quite diverse, by TV standards.
Pilot - Number One was a woman
Original Series - Black woman, east Asian man, Russian and Scot in the main cast
Next Generation - Many female and black characters, Picard was French
Deep Space 9 - Black captain
Voyager - Female captain and chief engineer, Native American second in command
I didn't even mention the black/east Asian members of the crew in the later ones, they were so normal (for Trek) by that point. And Janeway was originally going to be French too, but they replaced the actor after some test footage didn't turn out as they had hoped.
They were diverse, but up until Voyager, they weren't pushing an agenda. I remember an interview with Kate Mulgrew, slightly before the premiere of Voyager. To paraphrase "[Janeway] is a woman and the best captain in starfleet." But it was toned in such a way that you would expect that the woman part was a disadvantage where the Treks before had already, at least in the fiction, dissolved that prejudice. Voyager felt very forced; black vulcan, woman half Klingon, native american. As though there were trying to make a point of how diverse they were being, rather than just being diverse."
If Sony had allowed straight MP3s to be burned onto Mini-Discs, it would have beat the pants off the solid state MP3 players for the first 3-5 years they existed. The only thing that stopped mini-disc from dominating was Sony. I bought a mini-disc walkman after i had a 64 MB MP3 player that died. It wasnt until i got home i realized how terrible Sony's process for getting music on the device was.
The reason Minidisc didn't use MP3 was that enconding MP3 was very processor intensive (at the time) where a 286 equivalent processor could both comfortably encode and decode ATRAC. Recording was a big boon for Minidisc.
I must not have been clear: I wasn't advocating for any platform, or walled gardens. I was saying that maybe we should consider Android to be something nobody should use until its security problems are addressed - just like its competition.
Or I misread, good point either way.
That we can accept as a community that Android has a serious problem that needs solving, and needs to join its competition in the leper colony?
Walled gardens aren't a solution to the problem. The piece of the puzzle that keeps the platform you alluded to less vulnerable is that OS updates are available at the same time, for every supported device. While with android (with some notable exceptions) you are at the whim of the telcos AND vendors to get updates, if you ever do. The fractured landscape is the major issue.
Of course, after rereading the /. summary and title again, I can see how people might misinterpret the findings of this study, since the linked article is much more careful not to jump to grand conclusions, and explicitly mentions that they don't believe the psychedelic experience to necessarily be a "better" state of consciousness. But expecting anyone to actually RTFA instead of basing their opinions on the /. title is silly, I guess.
Once shouldn't expect anyone to RTFA. A study, not dissimilar to the one linked in the summary, deals entirely with an activity called RTFS. It clearly demonstrated that merely reading a couple of sentences will significantly increase activity in the area of the brain responsible for omniscience.
It's scary because "OK Google" isn't necessarily the only trigger word. The attacker only needs to convince the trigger algorithm. If they discover a sound or sounds that are innocuous but trigger it then they can trigger devices without being obvious about it.
I feel the solution is to fingerprint each voice that says OK Google. If the voice is not recognized, or if the device has been rebooted or even if a certain amount of time has passed, the device should ask the user to supply their passphrase before proceeding. All of these things should be stored and processed locally.
That would effectively stop this form of attack, while giving me the opportunity to finally unlock a device with "Solent Green is People"
They aren't air raid sirens.
Dallas outdoor warning sirens.
So the sirens sound, and presumably the North Koreans have a nuclear strike on the way. And what do the good citizens do? _nothing_. Only 4400 actually tried to figure out what was wrong; the rest simply ignored it.
You might as well get rid of the entire system, nobody cares about it anyway...
Considering that the sirens are to get people indoors in the event of Severe Weather and that most people were probably indoors when they went off, it's not surprising they did _nothing_ apart from what they are supposed to do - monitor radio and television.
Dallas outdoor warning sirens.
I don't know what dingy backwater you live in, but in places where people wear shoes, taxis are inspected and regulated.
And yet, in my neck of the woods, it's rare to get in a cab that doesn't have a check engine light on. And this isn't a dingy backwater.
"Details about the leak come courtesy of Chris Vickery from macOS security firm MacKeeper"
Say no more; our news source is the much maligned, borderline malware vendor, probably trying to drum up business.
You mean, once it was shown that there was no more headroom in it and it wouldn't scale past about 400 MHz? What a bargain! Meanwhile, AMD also got the only interesting part of Alpha, the bus. That was almost as good a buy as when Intel bought an ARM core (XScale) and then ironically couldn't get it to "scale" down; it was the fastest ARM core, but it was also the most power-hungry by far.
Not sure where you're going with that. The EV9 was (Well would have been) 2Ghz IIRC, the EV6 was 1Ghz, and it was the first past the 1Ghz finish line. But I wasn't alluding to the Alpha itself, but the patent portfolio that came with it, for example, the bits of the EV8 that made it into Intel's 64-bit processor design.
But Intel was able to outspend their RISC competitors on R&D, holding their ground until chips became complex enough that process and ISA independent features dominated.
Don't forget getting DEC Alpha at bargain bin discount prices.
> Much like there's no real "tablet market", just an iPad market.
Nonsense, Android sold more units. Just like the phone market is really an Android market.
Who did what?
Android didn't move a single thing. Android is an operating system. You could drill down further and say "Linux sold more units" which is still as apt a comparison.
iPad on the other hand is a product, the vendor is Apple. Did Samsung move more tablets? LG? Google? They are all competitors so lumping them together is hardly a valid argument. But you would still need to pick any two other vendors to align with Apple's share.
Apple seems to be laying it on thick today.
It's the most popular, best selling smart watch... Well, yeah, it's also pretty much the only choice for iOS users, where as Android users have a wide variety to choose from and thus sales of individual models are diluted. Apple only does one model per year too, because even with the various straps and colours they all count as "Apple Watch 1" sales.
There is Android Wear support for iOS. Same with Pebble and FitBit, etc. etc. Apple Watch is an additional option for iPhone users, not the only one.
I feel like it's just a matter of perspective. The watch market as whole has never really been as significant as the phone or PC market, thus comparing the apples watch compared to iPhone or Mac sales makes it look like a failure, but within it's sector it is a strong competitor. It certainly hasn't take then world by storm the way that the iPad and iPhone have been able to, but at least hast been a strong contender for watches. So I'd say the watch has been a viable product, but no great success.
According to TFA, Sales estimates put the Apple Watch on par with Mac sales for the same quarter. If true that is very significant. Of course that likely has a lot to do with Apple almost completely ignoring its desktops...
Pairs with, sure. But it's no where on the same level as what you get when paired with an Android phone.
If it's a success, nobody is required to admit, we'll see it everywhere and in the press, like iPods (in the past) or iPhones today.
Fair enough, but the claim comes from their Q1 quarterly earnings call. I'd say they would be remiss in NOT admitting it were a success, given the target audience is investors.