I don't know about that. People stupid enough to drink a 52 oz, 1000+ calorie drink packed with sugar might not have the best brain to begin with and probably have all around terrible health practices as well.
The study was about Glucose; the predominant sugar in soda drinks is Fructose, at least in the U.S., and because it lends itself to plumbing-based manufacturing of junk food rather than requiring auger gears to move powdered sweetener around, it's gaining ground in other countries junk food as well.
Maybe Shaw needs to update the firmware on these Cisco base stations they are using.
More likely you need to enable blackhole route MTU TCP probing by writing a 1 or to 2:/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mtu_probing
to deal with the fact that Shaw blocks ICMP for PMTU autodiscovery, just Like Cox and TCI do, and then runs PPPOE so an MTU of 1500 fails any time you get close to the actual 1500 bytes being sent. Like, oh, say if you foolishly were using Facebook, which likes to pile cookies into your HTTP header until it gets to the point where you're sending 9 packets back and forth just to get one HTTP request through.
Impacts all Linux based systems that take the default and don't change it away from 0, which basically means Android tablets, phones, and Linux desktops, if the vendor hasn't figured out the issue ahead of time.
PS: I'm the one who fixed the default for Chrome OS so it didn't have the problem any more.
I'm pretty sure "neckbeards" was a reference to the UNIX/Linux people who were unwilling to put back doors in their OS, at least not on purposed, as opposed to those nice, clean-cut Microsoft types.
Why aren't piracy numbers included in the ratings?
If they are able to quantify them that precisely, they should be included in the ratings numbers, since what you care about is how many people watch the show. If you know how many people watch the show, then you know what markets to target, and the value of a commercial on the show as an influencer.
Companies such as Reckitt Benckiser (Lysol) already advertise on the pirate sites, as do other major U.S. Companies, as well as the American Red Cross (I'm told). Clearly the issue is one about contract exclusivity excluding other distribution channels, and about getting a cut of the advertising revenue.
I'd be very surprised if the advertising supported "pirate" sites weren't getting a lot of their uploads directly from the networks themselves, as a side channel to get around the exclusivity contracts with the distributors.
I wrote a program on a similar principle in 1983. It ran on a mainframe, and was called "He-man, Dangerous-man". Here's how it worked:
1) Draw an ASCII art carnival hammer strength meter 2) Put up text on the terminal telling the user that it is a strength meter 3) Tell the user "When I say 'go!', hit the return key as hard as you can!" 4) Count down from 10, and then print "go!" 5) When the return key is hit, make the little ASCII art "weight" go a random amount 2/3-3/4s way up the screen toward the "bell" 6) If the key to the left of the return key is hit, make it go all the way up and print ^G so you can demonstrate superior strength
Obviously, I was forced to remove it, the first time some idiot actually fell for it and broke the keyboard on a Televideo 912 terminal.
Should stop buying American music, movies and whatever other junk they are selling. Stay on your fucking island.
They're not buying it, are they? Aren't they just unauthorized streaming it online? That's what region codes are for, right? To break up media markets by region so that they can charge different prices in different regions, while physical goods all end up the same price as the tariff walls get dropped, one by one, until human labor is a commodity?
She would meet the eligibility requirements if an Indian company hired her, Infosys is an Indian company, ergo if she was hired, she would be eligible to work in India.
Wrong. The job in question was a job placement, and doesn't meet the criteria. I specifically linked to the list of criteria, and the job she was going for doesn't qualify, and the job is a placement in the U.S., not a remote work job anyway.
So yes, national origin is an issue, even if their criteria is hiring someone of any national origin, so long as they work in an office in India, since she wouldn't be allowed by the Indian government to work there.
CAPTCHA will be around as long as it is the best way to stop programatic submissions.
It's well documented that there are several groups who have put put porn sites using collections of images from around the net; then they attack sites that require answering CAPTCHA. When challenged by the CAPTCHA, the forward it on to someone seeking the "free porn", and then forward that persons answer back to the site they are attacking.
So the CAPTCHA-using site wants a human to solve the CAPTCHA, a human solves the CAPTCHA, gets their porn, while the attacker gets into the "protected" web site that they actually wanted to attack.
In the limit, they don't work; in practice, there's an amount of effort barrier that makes your site "sorta safe" from bots, if it's small enough that it's not going to be useful to an attacker as a link farm anyway, since it doesn't have enough page-rank credibility of its own that it's worth subverting.
It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people capable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.
Even if there were, let them take you to court on it, it's not like they're going to be able to make a reasoned complaint, right?...
Is Japanese easier to process for voice recognition than English?
Grammatically, yes, practically, no.
Japanese is more regular than English, and it is SOV order instead of SVO order. Subject -> Object -> Verb means you have your subject object, and the parameter object, before you're told to call the Subject object's member function.
Idiomatically, however, there's a huge amount of context use to imply subject and object, so if you were to try and parse spken Japanese, you might have a problem if you weren't there for the start of the conversation. I rather expect that it's limited to completely context free full sentences and/or simple commands, rather than understanding idiomatic usage.
Someone else mentioned homonyms; you can get a homonym of "you are a tall man" that could also mean "you have just crossed a bridge" and "you are a martian" (one of my favorite Japanese puns, actually, because of the story a friend tells which goes with it), but again, it requires idiomatic usage to get to that point, so practically, you can eliminate ambiguity intentionally, the same way that you can avoid puns in English, by further constraining how you are allowed to talk to the thing.
Or you could just flag ambiguous idiomatic usage, and have it ask for clarification, which is what most robot engineers would do.
They can't make a profit delivering the paper to you without advertising, so what you're really saying is "I don't want a physical paper". Which is cool, neither do I. But it doesn't take three paragraphs to say it.
I would maintain that this is the USPS argument, where they claim bulk mail subsidizes things, but were they to raise the unit price for bulk mail one cent, their operating profit would be about as big as their current operating loss. You may recognize the Internet 1.0 "operate at a loss, and make up for it in volume!" business plan here.
But fine, let's accept your claim for the sake of argument... crack open the books on a couple of failed newspapers.
Let's see the balance sheets ourselves with regard to color printing costs, amount subsidized by advertising, and so on. Let some academic researchers do some forensic accounting on say 5 failed newspapers. It'd be a great learning experience for people in accounting and business programs in a couple of universities about "how not to run a cash flow business", and at the same time, we'd get some honest numbers about what level of content is actually sustainable. At the very least, it'd be interesting to see how much blood the wire services suck out of these papers, and whether that has anything to do with their tipping into non-profitability.
One thing I would like to see on paper web sites which would make me more likely to subscribe to their physical counterparts is a "suppress syndicated content" checkbox that would let me see how much actual journalism they themselves are engaged in, before I invite their paper in to clutter up my living room. I'll warn you right now, though, if that gets rid of 95% of your content, you aren't going to darken my door.
I also already get enough coupons and advertising from the direct marketing association, so it'd be nice if they didn't put ads everywhere in the paper copy of the newspaper, since the postman already brings me all the coupons and local advertising I could ever want to recycle. One of the most annoying things the San Mateo Times does periodically is "give you" a "free" copy of their Wednesday or Sunday "supertacular advertising issue" so they can claim high circulation numbers, right before the end of the circulation reporting cycle. 600 pages of crap and 20 pages of content, and 80% of those are Reuters, UPI, or AP stories.
Finally, I think color is vastly overrated; save it for "fashion week" or other special purpose spreads that get delivered in special sections, and the Sunday comics. I don't get where everyone believes the way to sell physical papers is to look as much like "USA Today" as it's possible to look, without actually putting "USA Today" on the banner. Maybe they get a higher per unit marginal profit or something, like when you go to a restaurant, and they serve you 3X the food you should be eating so they can jack up the price, and the marginal profit per hour, to maximize their profit relative to their flooring costs...
People running Android and custom ROMs frequently replace the radios. This is probably not quite the same as it's mostly just using radios from other models or with minor changes I believe, but it is done.
I assume you are mostly talking about tablets, not phones, here, since the modules are generally surface mount in phones, due to industrial design requirements that phones be relatively small. It's grey market at best to replace a GSM or CDMA module. WiFi modules, the FCC cares a lot less about. If you replace a GSM or CDMA module with another, however, you have to also replace the binary firmware blob with one whose signature the module can verify when you try to load it. So it's effectively a single piece of hardware at that point, since it's replaced as a unit.
The equivalent for hardware radios would be like saying you have to release it in a steel box or something. People hack things and have since radios were invented. It's really the responsibility of the person who owns the device not to break the law.
Sure, and if the seller of the device ends up with an end user being able to violate the law and hack it, then the FCC decertifies the device and forces the manufacturer to issue a recall until such time as the manufacturer remedies the ability of the end user to violate the law and hack the thing, and recertifies. This is expensive as hell for the manufacturer.
The bottom line is that the FCC and other regulatory agencies don't want you to be able to modify the software in an SDR in order to redefine it. They don't want you listening to GSM or CDMA traffic in promiscuous mode and gathering enough data to listen in, but they even more strongly don't want you to have a cell phone that all you have to do is run an app on it and it lets you intercept or jam police or military frequencies, but when not running the app, is totally indistinguishable from an unmodified cell phone.
Part of this is security through obscurity, which won't stop a determined and skilled reverse engineer, but really, you'd have a hard time encrypting your blob and signing it in such a way that a Qualcomm chip is willing to verify it, decrypt it, and verify the decrypted blob as well. It vastly reduces the pool of people capable of actually doing the job to a set small enough that they can "round up the usual suspects".
I've noticed weird trend among the middle classes to feel entitled when it comes to eliciting the services of those who they perceive as lower down in the pecking order.
Being a cabby is obviously a stressful and fairly tedious job (and I speak only as an occasional rider). More importantly, it's a job, not servitude. Of course they're going to prefer to the more profitable routes, and there are going to be some providers more competent than others. And if you were sat for an hour waiting for a single cab company in one place in a city, you were doing it completely wrong.
First of all, you're right: it's a job. They should do the job; particularly, they should do the job their dispatcher promised they would do on their behalf. If they have an argument with the dispatcher, that should be their problem, not mine. They're the ones who decided to be affiliated with Luxor instead of Yellow Cab, or Yellow Cab instead of Luxor, or who the heck ever. They have their hack license, and with it, they can pretty much pick what cab company they work for.
Second, I have no problem tipping well when someone has to go out of their way to accommodate me. Sometimes I forget that there are non-Americans on this site, and that most of them don't believe in tipping because they figure the person providing the service is being paid anyway. A cabbie going out of their way like this in America is going to *expect* a tip, where a European cabbie would just say "to heck with it" and pick up the nearest fare, knowing that the extra effort isn't going to be rewarded.
Third, I forgot one of the best things about Uber and similar companies: because they bill by GPS start and end point, you can't be "long hauled". The practice of "long hauling" is where the cabbie takes you on a longer route than necessary to run up the meter. When using GPS start/end points, "long hauling" will cost the cabbie, not you, so it stops the practice rather dead in the water. This is an incredible benefit, if you end up needing a cab at a trade show or conference in an unfamiliar place, since that's when you are most likely to be "long hauled".
Fourth, as far as "doing it wrong", I suppose you are suggesting that I, and my one friend, and my other friend with the walker, go 10 blocks down to 19th street and just hail a passing cab. You have obviously never had a physical disability.
When you know you depend on silicon designed by others. Here's the thing.I bet Canonical would very much rather have everything on that thing be open-source because if something breaks it's way easier to debug than having to bang your head against the wall that a binary blob of anything represents.
It won't happen. Minimally, the SDR (Software Defined Radio) will be required by the FCC, and other similar regulatory agencies around the world, to have a locked down image, or it won't be licensed for use, period. An SDR is defined to be a combination of the software and hardware, and you can't change one or the other without getting the thing relicensed, or requialified for use on the carrier network in the country in question.
My guess is that they will end up with some flavor of Qualcomm Snapdragon, which runs the baseband firmware in a TZone, which effectively puts it in a hypervisor in the chip, out of reach of any other software running on the chip. This is what Sony did with their recent "root unlocked" handsets, and it's the reason Sony *didn't* unlock their single CPU handsets.
Uber is rather pointless. Why would someone go through a 'middle-man' app, thus incurring a surcharge, when they can just reserve with the taxi company direct?
It's kind of pointless to hail a cab with it, if what you care about is cost; instead, you hail a rideshare. This is one part of what has the cab drivers panties in a bunch.
The second part that has their panties in a bunch is that cab drivers are notorious for "closest fare first" behaviour; so if you are outside the downtown area, or off the line between the downtown and the airport, they will leave you hanging and pick up other call-ins before picking you up. Uber and similar apps commit them to picking up the fare as booked, and they find this annoying because they don't get optimum road miles.
A couple of weeks ago, myself and two friends booked a cab to the Inner Sunset in San Francisco; this is a little way out of the way, wince it requires going about 10 blocks off of 19th Avenue, which is the normal cab travel corridor. We had a person standing outside the entire time, and the cab company tried to claim that the cabbie had attempted a pickup and "got tired of waiting". Twice. But in fact, there were no cabs through the pickup intersection, or either of the cross streets to that intersection for the entire time. We were over an hour past our scheduled arrival time to our destination, thanks to the lying cabbies.
This sounds anecdotal, but it is in fact common practice in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, where there are well known "hop-on" and "hop-off" spots, and if you want a cab, you get your but to one of those locations for your best change of getting one; otherwise, you are considered "off route", and the only way you get a cab is if someone isn't busy. This is not cool
Uber and similar services fix this problem by providing more vehicles for scheduling, through including rideshare and towncar services. This cones at the expense of the cabbies not being booked solid, but having had my butt left hanging in the wind by cabbies on multiple occasions, my heart is not bleeding for them in this case.
And they were lucky they didn't take it, the one that was build was a complete environmental desaster. Showing how much you can trust the guys designing these things...
Really? And where did this "pebble bed reactor disaster" occur, pray tell?
It makes me wonder about the cash flow associated with energy taxes in Utah.
If this is an honest tax and not a pure revenue grab then I believe the Feds should pay their own way. i.e. if the tax exists to pay for associated infrastructure used and consumed by the site then there is a need for the Feds to pay their own way.
It's a tax to fund the purchase of carbon credits.
Utah to my knowledge is a net energy exporter because of the Colorado River and the large low sulfur coal deposits and tall stack power generation facilities.
Most Utah power generation is coal-fired plants, such as the one in Parowan, with a small amount of hydroelectric and other facilities. The plants use so-called "dirty coal". The low sulfur coal deposits were in areas declared to be National Parks under the Clinton administration, and are therefore inaccessible for mining. The general consensus is that this was done in trade for the campaign contributions from China which were funneled through the Buddhist temple in San Francisco. At the time it was quite a scandal, and the money got given back by the campaign, but the National Park designation remains.
To tax local consumption seems at odds with a net exporter. Further is there a power export tax.
There isn't an export tax; like telecommunications, however, there's a grid interconnect charge that occurs at the border, in a similar fashion to how natural gas piped into California power plants from Enron in Texas suddenly cost twice as much as soon as it hit the California border.
The reason for this is that interconnection charges are covered under the local Public Utility Commissions supporting each state "taking their cut", while a tax, rather than a fee, imposed as a state border, would be a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. A fee doesn't have that "problem".
I also wonder about hazards natural and man made in this area.
The area has one of the largest production and storage facilities associated with rocket fuel. Mostly relocated from southern Nevada after the big blast south of Vegas.
Morton Thiokol has always been a rocket production facility. The U.S. "SRAM" or "Standard Missile" has been produced there, and the need for the O-Ring joints in the SRBs that resulted in the Challenger disaster were there to deal with the fact that there is a curve in the railroad tracks on the way out of the production facility. There was enough leeway to ship SRAMs out through the gap, but not enough to ship complete SRBs without segmenting them. My ex brother in law used to inspect the segments by being lowered into the things on a winch.
This is largely not an issue any more: we aren't flying shuttles, and the U.S. pretty much doesn't have any useful launch capability any more anyway, which means there's no real fuel production there for non-military rockets, and all of those are solid fueled anyway.
The area has some earthquake risks. A major quake zone "Intermountain Seismic Belt" runs through the area. It is unclear if there is a modern risk but when I lived there and looked into the topic I was concerned and put together my first quake bug out kit.
This is the "everyone lives in the most sincere pumpkin patch" effect, otherwise known as "The Great Pumpkin" effect. It has to do with everyone knowing that they are the biggest target for natural disasters, terrorist attacks, asteroid strikes, and alien invasions, because they are the most important people on the planet, so everyone else must agree they are the most important people on the planet.
It's the same reason that San Francisco wanted so much anti-terror funding sent to them "to protect The Golden Gate Bridge from terrorists" -- like the 9/11 terrorists actually cared about anything but fi
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I don't know about that. People stupid enough to drink a 52 oz, 1000+ calorie drink packed with sugar might not have the best brain to begin with and probably have all around terrible health practices as well.
The study was about Glucose; the predominant sugar in soda drinks is Fructose, at least in the U.S., and because it lends itself to plumbing-based manufacturing of junk food rather than requiring auger gears to move powdered sweetener around, it's gaining ground in other countries junk food as well.
Maybe Shaw needs to update the firmware on these Cisco base stations they are using.
More likely you need to enable blackhole route MTU TCP probing by writing a 1 or to 2: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mtu_probing
to deal with the fact that Shaw blocks ICMP for PMTU autodiscovery, just Like Cox and TCI do, and then runs PPPOE so an MTU of 1500 fails any time you get close to the actual 1500 bytes being sent. Like, oh, say if you foolishly were using Facebook, which likes to pile cookies into your HTTP header until it gets to the point where you're sending 9 packets back and forth just to get one HTTP request through.
Impacts all Linux based systems that take the default and don't change it away from 0, which basically means Android tablets, phones, and Linux desktops, if the vendor hasn't figured out the issue ahead of time.
PS: I'm the one who fixed the default for Chrome OS so it didn't have the problem any more.
Have we ever sent a person where it was certain, and known to them, that they would die?
Tons of military missions. I guess we could recruit death row inmates as astronauts...
I couldn't reproduce the benchmarks
Jean-Baptiste Quéru's release wouldn't boot on it... something about there not being any GPU support released by Qualcomm.
I'm pretty sure "neckbeards" was a reference to the UNIX/Linux people who were unwilling to put back doors in their OS, at least not on purposed, as opposed to those nice, clean-cut Microsoft types.
Why aren't piracy numbers included in the ratings?
If they are able to quantify them that precisely, they should be included in the ratings numbers, since what you care about is how many people watch the show. If you know how many people watch the show, then you know what markets to target, and the value of a commercial on the show as an influencer.
Companies such as Reckitt Benckiser (Lysol) already advertise on the pirate sites, as do other major U.S. Companies, as well as the American Red Cross (I'm told). Clearly the issue is one about contract exclusivity excluding other distribution channels, and about getting a cut of the advertising revenue.
I'd be very surprised if the advertising supported "pirate" sites weren't getting a lot of their uploads directly from the networks themselves, as a side channel to get around the exclusivity contracts with the distributors.
#1 tool a robot probe could carry to Europa: a human.
Seriously, is it any wonder no one watches launches any more?
Watching a robot probe go anywhere is "Great, Skynet explores another planet without us: big deal".
To reflect: To meditate upon
We should pause and step back a moment to meditate upon these attacks... hopefully it won't take too long or too many resources to do so...
Electronic device IQ tests...
I wrote a program on a similar principle in 1983. It ran on a mainframe, and was called "He-man, Dangerous-man". Here's how it worked:
1) Draw an ASCII art carnival hammer strength meter
2) Put up text on the terminal telling the user that it is a strength meter
3) Tell the user "When I say 'go!', hit the return key as hard as you can!"
4) Count down from 10, and then print "go!"
5) When the return key is hit, make the little ASCII art "weight" go a random amount 2/3-3/4s way up the screen toward the "bell"
6) If the key to the left of the return key is hit, make it go all the way up and print ^G so you can demonstrate superior strength
Obviously, I was forced to remove it, the first time some idiot actually fell for it and broke the keyboard on a Televideo 912 terminal.
Should stop buying American music, movies and whatever other junk they are selling. Stay on your fucking island.
They're not buying it, are they? Aren't they just unauthorized streaming it online? That's what region codes are for, right? To break up media markets by region so that they can charge different prices in different regions, while physical goods all end up the same price as the tariff walls get dropped, one by one, until human labor is a commodity?
She would meet the eligibility requirements if an Indian company hired her, Infosys is an Indian company, ergo if she was hired, she would be eligible to work in India.
Wrong. The job in question was a job placement, and doesn't meet the criteria. I specifically linked to the list of criteria, and the job she was going for doesn't qualify, and the job is a placement in the U.S., not a remote work job anyway.
She would not be granted an Indian work visa; she doesn't meet the eligibility requirements to be granted a visa. See:
http://www.immihelp.com/nri/indiavisa/employment-visa-india.html
So yes, national origin is an issue, even if their criteria is hiring someone of any national origin, so long as they work in an office in India, since she wouldn't be allowed by the Indian government to work there.
CAPTCHA will be around as long as it is the best way to stop programatic submissions.
It's well documented that there are several groups who have put put porn sites using collections of images from around the net; then they attack sites that require answering CAPTCHA. When challenged by the CAPTCHA, the forward it on to someone seeking the "free porn", and then forward that persons answer back to the site they are attacking.
So the CAPTCHA-using site wants a human to solve the CAPTCHA, a human solves the CAPTCHA, gets their porn, while the attacker gets into the "protected" web site that they actually wanted to attack.
In the limit, they don't work; in practice, there's an amount of effort barrier that makes your site "sorta safe" from bots, if it's small enough that it's not going to be useful to an attacker as a link farm anyway, since it doesn't have enough page-rank credibility of its own that it's worth subverting.
It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people capable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.
Even if there were, let them take you to court on it, it's not like they're going to be able to make a reasoned complaint, right? ...
Is Japanese easier to process for voice recognition than English?
Grammatically, yes, practically, no.
Japanese is more regular than English, and it is SOV order instead of SVO order. Subject -> Object -> Verb means you have your subject object, and the parameter object, before you're told to call the Subject object's member function.
Idiomatically, however, there's a huge amount of context use to imply subject and object, so if you were to try and parse spken Japanese, you might have a problem if you weren't there for the start of the conversation. I rather expect that it's limited to completely context free full sentences and/or simple commands, rather than understanding idiomatic usage.
Someone else mentioned homonyms; you can get a homonym of "you are a tall man" that could also mean "you have just crossed a bridge" and "you are a martian" (one of my favorite Japanese puns, actually, because of the story a friend tells which goes with it), but again, it requires idiomatic usage to get to that point, so practically, you can eliminate ambiguity intentionally, the same way that you can avoid puns in English, by further constraining how you are allowed to talk to the thing.
Or you could just flag ambiguous idiomatic usage, and have it ask for clarification, which is what most robot engineers would do.
They can't make a profit delivering the paper to you without advertising, so what you're really saying is "I don't want a physical paper". Which is cool, neither do I. But it doesn't take three paragraphs to say it.
I would maintain that this is the USPS argument, where they claim bulk mail subsidizes things, but were they to raise the unit price for bulk mail one cent, their operating profit would be about as big as their current operating loss. You may recognize the Internet 1.0 "operate at a loss, and make up for it in volume!" business plan here.
But fine, let's accept your claim for the sake of argument ... crack open the books on a couple of failed newspapers.
Let's see the balance sheets ourselves with regard to color printing costs, amount subsidized by advertising, and so on. Let some academic researchers do some forensic accounting on say 5 failed newspapers. It'd be a great learning experience for people in accounting and business programs in a couple of universities about "how not to run a cash flow business", and at the same time, we'd get some honest numbers about what level of content is actually sustainable. At the very least, it'd be interesting to see how much blood the wire services suck out of these papers, and whether that has anything to do with their tipping into non-profitability.
One thing I would like to see on paper web sites which would make me more likely to subscribe to their physical counterparts is a "suppress syndicated content" checkbox that would let me see how much actual journalism they themselves are engaged in, before I invite their paper in to clutter up my living room. I'll warn you right now, though, if that gets rid of 95% of your content, you aren't going to darken my door.
I also already get enough coupons and advertising from the direct marketing association, so it'd be nice if they didn't put ads everywhere in the paper copy of the newspaper, since the postman already brings me all the coupons and local advertising I could ever want to recycle. One of the most annoying things the San Mateo Times does periodically is "give you" a "free" copy of their Wednesday or Sunday "supertacular advertising issue" so they can claim high circulation numbers, right before the end of the circulation reporting cycle. 600 pages of crap and 20 pages of content, and 80% of those are Reuters, UPI, or AP stories.
Finally, I think color is vastly overrated; save it for "fashion week" or other special purpose spreads that get delivered in special sections, and the Sunday comics. I don't get where everyone believes the way to sell physical papers is to look as much like "USA Today" as it's possible to look, without actually putting "USA Today" on the banner. Maybe they get a higher per unit marginal profit or something, like when you go to a restaurant, and they serve you 3X the food you should be eating so they can jack up the price, and the marginal profit per hour, to maximize their profit relative to their flooring costs...
People running Android and custom ROMs frequently replace the radios. This is probably not quite the same as it's mostly just using radios from other models or with minor changes I believe, but it is done.
I assume you are mostly talking about tablets, not phones, here, since the modules are generally surface mount in phones, due to industrial design requirements that phones be relatively small. It's grey market at best to replace a GSM or CDMA module. WiFi modules, the FCC cares a lot less about. If you replace a GSM or CDMA module with another, however, you have to also replace the binary firmware blob with one whose signature the module can verify when you try to load it. So it's effectively a single piece of hardware at that point, since it's replaced as a unit.
The equivalent for hardware radios would be like saying you have to release it in a steel box or something. People hack things and have since radios were invented. It's really the responsibility of the person who owns the device not to break the law.
Sure, and if the seller of the device ends up with an end user being able to violate the law and hack it, then the FCC decertifies the device and forces the manufacturer to issue a recall until such time as the manufacturer remedies the ability of the end user to violate the law and hack the thing, and recertifies. This is expensive as hell for the manufacturer.
The bottom line is that the FCC and other regulatory agencies don't want you to be able to modify the software in an SDR in order to redefine it. They don't want you listening to GSM or CDMA traffic in promiscuous mode and gathering enough data to listen in, but they even more strongly don't want you to have a cell phone that all you have to do is run an app on it and it lets you intercept or jam police or military frequencies, but when not running the app, is totally indistinguishable from an unmodified cell phone.
Part of this is security through obscurity, which won't stop a determined and skilled reverse engineer, but really, you'd have a hard time encrypting your blob and signing it in such a way that a Qualcomm chip is willing to verify it, decrypt it, and verify the decrypted blob as well. It vastly reduces the pool of people capable of actually doing the job to a set small enough that they can "round up the usual suspects".
I've noticed weird trend among the middle classes to feel entitled when it comes to eliciting the services of those who they perceive as lower down in the pecking order.
Being a cabby is obviously a stressful and fairly tedious job (and I speak only as an occasional rider). More importantly, it's a job, not servitude. Of course they're going to prefer to the more profitable routes, and there are going to be some providers more competent than others. And if you were sat for an hour waiting for a single cab company in one place in a city, you were doing it completely wrong.
First of all, you're right: it's a job. They should do the job; particularly, they should do the job their dispatcher promised they would do on their behalf. If they have an argument with the dispatcher, that should be their problem, not mine. They're the ones who decided to be affiliated with Luxor instead of Yellow Cab, or Yellow Cab instead of Luxor, or who the heck ever. They have their hack license, and with it, they can pretty much pick what cab company they work for.
Second, I have no problem tipping well when someone has to go out of their way to accommodate me. Sometimes I forget that there are non-Americans on this site, and that most of them don't believe in tipping because they figure the person providing the service is being paid anyway. A cabbie going out of their way like this in America is going to *expect* a tip, where a European cabbie would just say "to heck with it" and pick up the nearest fare, knowing that the extra effort isn't going to be rewarded.
Third, I forgot one of the best things about Uber and similar companies: because they bill by GPS start and end point, you can't be "long hauled". The practice of "long hauling" is where the cabbie takes you on a longer route than necessary to run up the meter. When using GPS start/end points, "long hauling" will cost the cabbie, not you, so it stops the practice rather dead in the water. This is an incredible benefit, if you end up needing a cab at a trade show or conference in an unfamiliar place, since that's when you are most likely to be "long hauled".
Fourth, as far as "doing it wrong", I suppose you are suggesting that I, and my one friend, and my other friend with the walker, go 10 blocks down to 19th street and just hail a passing cab. You have obviously never had a physical disability.
When you know you depend on silicon designed by others. Here's the thing.I bet Canonical would very much rather have everything on that thing be open-source because if something breaks it's way easier to debug than having to bang your head against the wall that a binary blob of anything represents.
It won't happen. Minimally, the SDR (Software Defined Radio) will be required by the FCC, and other similar regulatory agencies around the world, to have a locked down image, or it won't be licensed for use, period. An SDR is defined to be a combination of the software and hardware, and you can't change one or the other without getting the thing relicensed, or requialified for use on the carrier network in the country in question.
My guess is that they will end up with some flavor of Qualcomm Snapdragon, which runs the baseband firmware in a TZone, which effectively puts it in a hypervisor in the chip, out of reach of any other software running on the chip. This is what Sony did with their recent "root unlocked" handsets, and it's the reason Sony *didn't* unlock their single CPU handsets.
Why would you ever let private companies run your critical infrastructure?
You mean like grocery stores, clothing stores, and apartment complexes, right? That's the top three items on Maslow's hierarchy of needs: Food, Clothing, Shelter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs#Physiological_needs
Uber is rather pointless. Why would someone go through a 'middle-man' app, thus incurring a surcharge, when they can just reserve with the taxi company direct?
It's kind of pointless to hail a cab with it, if what you care about is cost; instead, you hail a rideshare. This is one part of what has the cab drivers panties in a bunch.
The second part that has their panties in a bunch is that cab drivers are notorious for "closest fare first" behaviour; so if you are outside the downtown area, or off the line between the downtown and the airport, they will leave you hanging and pick up other call-ins before picking you up. Uber and similar apps commit them to picking up the fare as booked, and they find this annoying because they don't get optimum road miles.
A couple of weeks ago, myself and two friends booked a cab to the Inner Sunset in San Francisco; this is a little way out of the way, wince it requires going about 10 blocks off of 19th Avenue, which is the normal cab travel corridor. We had a person standing outside the entire time, and the cab company tried to claim that the cabbie had attempted a pickup and "got tired of waiting". Twice. But in fact, there were no cabs through the pickup intersection, or either of the cross streets to that intersection for the entire time. We were over an hour past our scheduled arrival time to our destination, thanks to the lying cabbies.
This sounds anecdotal, but it is in fact common practice in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, where there are well known "hop-on" and "hop-off" spots, and if you want a cab, you get your but to one of those locations for your best change of getting one; otherwise, you are considered "off route", and the only way you get a cab is if someone isn't busy. This is not cool
Uber and similar services fix this problem by providing more vehicles for scheduling, through including rideshare and towncar services. This cones at the expense of the cabbies not being booked solid, but having had my butt left hanging in the wind by cabbies on multiple occasions, my heart is not bleeding for them in this case.
And they were lucky they didn't take it, the one that was build was a complete environmental desaster. Showing how much you can trust the guys designing these things...
Really? And where did this "pebble bed reactor disaster" occur, pray tell?
At first this topic seemed lame.... but.
It makes me wonder about the cash flow associated with
energy taxes in Utah.
If this is an honest tax and not a pure revenue grab then I believe
the Feds should pay their own way. i.e. if the tax exists to pay
for associated infrastructure used and consumed by the site then
there is a need for the Feds to pay their own way.
It's a tax to fund the purchase of carbon credits.
Utah to my knowledge is a net energy exporter because of the Colorado
River and the large low sulfur coal deposits and tall stack power generation
facilities.
Most Utah power generation is coal-fired plants, such as the one in Parowan, with a small amount of hydroelectric and other facilities. The plants use so-called "dirty coal". The low sulfur coal deposits were in areas declared to be National Parks under the Clinton administration, and are therefore inaccessible for mining. The general consensus is that this was done in trade for the campaign contributions from China which were funneled through the Buddhist temple in San Francisco. At the time it was quite a scandal, and the money got given back by the campaign, but the National Park designation remains.
To tax local consumption seems at odds with a net exporter.
Further is there a power export tax.
There isn't an export tax; like telecommunications, however, there's a grid interconnect charge that occurs at the border, in a similar fashion to how natural gas piped into California power plants from Enron in Texas suddenly cost twice as much as soon as it hit the California border.
The reason for this is that interconnection charges are covered under the local Public Utility Commissions supporting each state "taking their cut", while a tax, rather than a fee, imposed as a state border, would be a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. A fee doesn't have that "problem".
I also wonder about hazards natural and man made in this area.
The area has one of the largest production and storage facilities associated
with rocket fuel. Mostly relocated from southern Nevada after the big
blast south of Vegas.
Morton Thiokol has always been a rocket production facility. The U.S. "SRAM" or "Standard Missile" has been produced there, and the need for the O-Ring joints in the SRBs that resulted in the Challenger disaster were there to deal with the fact that there is a curve in the railroad tracks on the way out of the production facility. There was enough leeway to ship SRAMs out through the gap, but not enough to ship complete SRBs without segmenting them. My ex brother in law used to inspect the segments by being lowered into the things on a winch.
This is largely not an issue any more: we aren't flying shuttles, and the U.S. pretty much doesn't have any useful launch capability any more anyway, which means there's no real fuel production there for non-military rockets, and all of those are solid fueled anyway.
The area has some earthquake risks. A major quake zone "Intermountain
Seismic Belt" runs through the area. It is unclear if there is a modern risk
but when I lived there and looked into the topic I was concerned and put
together my first quake bug out kit.
This is the "everyone lives in the most sincere pumpkin patch" effect, otherwise known as "The Great Pumpkin" effect. It has to do with everyone knowing that they are the biggest target for natural disasters, terrorist attacks, asteroid strikes, and alien invasions, because they are the most important people on the planet, so everyone else must agree they are the most important people on the planet.
It's the same reason that San Francisco wanted so much anti-terror funding sent to them "to protect The Golden Gate Bridge from terrorists" -- like the 9/11 terrorists actually cared about anything but fi