I mean, Android Pie was just formally released a few days ago. Samsung customizes the OS quite a bit, so I wouldn't think it fair to expect it to show up on their phones for another 3 or 4 months.
Yeah... If the CIA wants someone dead, they probably wouldn't have missed. Besides, they are way more crafty in their ways of killing people... they would have made it look he died of food poisoning or a lone psychopath took him out.
When it comes to bad web design, Fox News is just as bad. I need to use an ad blocker to get that site to render in a decent timeframe, and even then I get hit with autoplaying video content. The content itself seems to be a mix over simplified headline news articles, shamelessly biased opinion pieces, and a bunch of clickbait blog spam forwards the bottom of the page.
(Oh, and everything that I said there applies to CNN as well. Political opinions aside, it's like they both graduated summa cum laude from the school of partisan hackery.)
AWS RDS service has Oracle support, but they really try to push their Aurora DB. That database is basically MariaDB with some extra bells and whistles. They also have migration tools for migrating off of Oracle to RDS as well.
They could complain to the government about it as well, but their solution would probably be to outlaw whatever cryptocurrency that the ransomer used. You know, the "Shoot the Messenger" style approach.
I'm conflicted on this one. I don't think that the city of San Fran should be dictating stuff like this, but on the other hand in-house cafeterias tend to lead to people having to eat at their desks during lunch because an important so-and-so e-mailed or instant messaged them with something at 11:55 AM. Basically, you end working through lunch instead of getting a actual "real" lunch break.
I wonder how helpful her local OSHA office in Texas would have been, considering that Texas is one of the more pro-business red states. It would have been worth a shot, anyway.
In the blue state I live in, a guy I used to work with basically forced our employer to get him a ergonomic workstation and chair by filing an OSHA complaint. They ended up firing him for gross incompetence later, but by filing that case he probably bought himself a few months where the company was afraid of a retaliation suit.
I'm looking at this from Google's side. They can support mining software, and deal with:
1) People complaining about crappy battery life because they are running a miner 2) People complaining about their phone overheating and crashing because they are running a miner 3) People complaining about their cryptocurrency disappearing because the application developers didn't secure their shit right 4) Various other problems that I'm not thinking about at the moment, like compatibility issues with certain versions of Android.
OR, they can just say that it's not supported, knowing that most people who are technical enough to install a cryptocurrency miner are smart enough to know how to sideload applications on their phone.
Well... they can always use Ubuntu with LibreOffice instead, which is free......although you'll probably find yourself spending so much time cleaning up your documents after converting to from.docx and.xlsx format to.odf's that you'll wish that you just paid the damn license fee. Been there, done that.
One of the first things you need to do when setting up an environment in AWS is to get them to increase your (artificially low) server limits for each instance type you're planning on using. Otherwise, you're going to run into those limits at the worst possible time when you need to rapidly scale your servers.
While I understand why they do this (probably to protect themselves from having someone spin up 1,000 cryptocoin mining instances with a hacked account), it's refreshing to see Amazon get bit by their own annoying provisioning decisions.
They are until Trump gets "Space Force" up and running to enforce those laws, anyway.
Perhaps this is how we can finally convince the US government to send a manned mission to Mars. Get China or Russia to send an unmanned mission there first that plants a flag on the planet, and then have their government release a statement saying that they "own" the planet now.
The outrage generated from Fox News and the other "America First" conservative outlets might actually be enough to get a NASA or SpaceX mars mission funding bill passed. The footage of them taking down the Chinese or Russian flag and putting up a bigger US flag in it's place would be pretty epic. 'Merica!
I'm not sure if I'd want to buy an island right now. With the rising sea levels, you might not have anything left to pass down to your grandkids 50 years from now.
Kicking out Musk would probably be a good thing for Tesla, as they could actually get someone in there with car manufacturing experience to properly ramp up manufacturing instead of trying to build cars out of a tent. I can only imagine the quality issues those cars are going to have off the lot.
You can invent your own retail holiday, and people fall for it.
I got to hand it to Amazon, though... this is probably the smartest way I've seen to clear old inventory cluttering up their warehouses since the invention of the "Woot Off" on woot.com before Amazon bought them. Who knows... it might have been the same marketing guy who came up with Prime Day.
The funny thing is that their "Reestablished 2018" AKA the "Please don't leave, we're not going to open dummy accounts in your name anymore! Promise!" campaign probably did more to remind users of their past issues than it did to improve customer relations.
On the other hand, offering me $200 to open a new credit account works wonders. If they want to win back my business, they need more promotions like that one.
I'd imagine that the soundproof room was to prevent outside people from recording the marching orders that Pruitt was receiving from the gas and oil industry executives.
Of course, now that the room has been built, don't expect the next EPA admin from the Trump administration to be in a hurry to tear it down.
As someone who lives in a US "Blue" state that's rarely seen a tax increase plan that they didn't like, I have to wonder when our tax department will attempt something similar here.
Hell... we already have a 1% "data services" tax on things like Netflix and iCloud, and we are supposed to be paying a "use tax" on any retail sites that aren't currently collecting state income tax on their sales.
I think that they only reason that they haven't tried taxing social media sites next is because most of them are incorporated in states where it would make it more difficult to collect the revenue.
The problem is that most people (mostly contractors) usually try to buy the cheapest thing that they find at the Home Depot when they can get away with it. We really need to try to save those people from themselves.
We already have regulations in place that "dumb" switches aren't allowed to be so poorly made that they can catch your house on fire (no matter how cheap they are), so we should probably have something similar with the "smart" ones.
Default "abc" or "123" passwords on an IoT device should probably be treated like a faulty ground wire at this point, since they are becoming just about as dangerous.
Heh... you sound like someone who doesn't have children. Most of us grownups know spending real money on virtual goods is a bad idea, but your kid who's been stick on level 12 for the past two hours isn't going to feel the same way about it.
Parents who weren't smart enough to set up a restricted profile on the kid's accounts are going to learn this lesson the hard way.
I was kinda hoping for the "auto layoff thing" from Idiocracy. So many things from that movie are slowly becoming true, to the point where people could probably take plot points from that movie and turn them into CNN headlines without people noticing that they are from a movie.
Yeah, something tells me that Intel would have been more than willing to sweep this issue under the rug if it wasn't for Meltdown and Spectre already tarnishing Intel's reputation.
Losing the desktop performance crown to AMD this year is just icing on the cake.
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Shhhh.... you're spoiling SpaceX's plan for future profitability!
I mean, Android Pie was just formally released a few days ago. Samsung customizes the OS quite a bit, so I wouldn't think it fair to expect it to show up on their phones for another 3 or 4 months.
Yeah, I want to see how quickly that rule gets thrown out the window when Jeff Bezos sends someone on his team one of those infamous ? e-mails.
Yeah... If the CIA wants someone dead, they probably wouldn't have missed. Besides, they are way more crafty in their ways of killing people... they would have made it look he died of food poisoning or a lone psychopath took him out.
When it comes to bad web design, Fox News is just as bad. I need to use an ad blocker to get that site to render in a decent timeframe, and even then I get hit with autoplaying video content. The content itself seems to be a mix over simplified headline news articles, shamelessly biased opinion pieces, and a bunch of clickbait blog spam forwards the bottom of the page.
(Oh, and everything that I said there applies to CNN as well. Political opinions aside, it's like they both graduated summa cum laude from the school of partisan hackery.)
AWS RDS service has Oracle support, but they really try to push their Aurora DB. That database is basically MariaDB with some extra bells and whistles. They also have migration tools for migrating off of Oracle to RDS as well.
They could complain to the government about it as well, but their solution would probably be to outlaw whatever cryptocurrency that the ransomer used. You know, the "Shoot the Messenger" style approach.
I'm conflicted on this one. I don't think that the city of San Fran should be dictating stuff like this, but on the other hand in-house cafeterias tend to lead to people having to eat at their desks during lunch because an important so-and-so e-mailed or instant messaged them with something at 11:55 AM. Basically, you end working through lunch instead of getting a actual "real" lunch break.
Yeah, I was always stuck behind you Sun bastards when I went to lunch at Togo's back then :)
I wonder how helpful her local OSHA office in Texas would have been, considering that Texas is one of the more pro-business red states. It would have been worth a shot, anyway.
In the blue state I live in, a guy I used to work with basically forced our employer to get him a ergonomic workstation and chair by filing an OSHA complaint. They ended up firing him for gross incompetence later, but by filing that case he probably bought himself a few months where the company was afraid of a retaliation suit.
I'm looking at this from Google's side. They can support mining software, and deal with:
1) People complaining about crappy battery life because they are running a miner
2) People complaining about their phone overheating and crashing because they are running a miner
3) People complaining about their cryptocurrency disappearing because the application developers didn't secure their shit right
4) Various other problems that I'm not thinking about at the moment, like compatibility issues with certain versions of Android.
OR, they can just say that it's not supported, knowing that most people who are technical enough to install a cryptocurrency miner are smart enough to know how to sideload applications on their phone.
Well... they can always use Ubuntu with LibreOffice instead, which is free... ...although you'll probably find yourself spending so much time cleaning up your documents after converting to from .docx and .xlsx format to .odf's that you'll wish that you just paid the damn license fee. Been there, done that.
So, what does the software fix do? Throttle the CPU slightly less under heavy load?
One of the first things you need to do when setting up an environment in AWS is to get them to increase your (artificially low) server limits for each instance type you're planning on using. Otherwise, you're going to run into those limits at the worst possible time when you need to rapidly scale your servers.
While I understand why they do this (probably to protect themselves from having someone spin up 1,000 cryptocoin mining instances with a hacked account), it's refreshing to see Amazon get bit by their own annoying provisioning decisions.
They are until Trump gets "Space Force" up and running to enforce those laws, anyway.
Perhaps this is how we can finally convince the US government to send a manned mission to Mars. Get China or Russia to send an unmanned mission there first that plants a flag on the planet, and then have their government release a statement saying that they "own" the planet now.
The outrage generated from Fox News and the other "America First" conservative outlets might actually be enough to get a NASA or SpaceX mars mission funding bill passed. The footage of them taking down the Chinese or Russian flag and putting up a bigger US flag in it's place would be pretty epic. 'Merica!
I'm not sure if I'd want to buy an island right now. With the rising sea levels, you might not have anything left to pass down to your grandkids 50 years from now.
Maybe a giant floating city would work better.
Kicking out Musk would probably be a good thing for Tesla, as they could actually get someone in there with car manufacturing experience to properly ramp up manufacturing instead of trying to build cars out of a tent. I can only imagine the quality issues those cars are going to have off the lot.
You can invent your own retail holiday, and people fall for it.
I got to hand it to Amazon, though... this is probably the smartest way I've seen to clear old inventory cluttering up their warehouses since the invention of the "Woot Off" on woot.com before Amazon bought them. Who knows... it might have been the same marketing guy who came up with Prime Day.
The funny thing is that their "Reestablished 2018" AKA the "Please don't leave, we're not going to open dummy accounts in your name anymore! Promise!" campaign probably did more to remind users of their past issues than it did to improve customer relations.
On the other hand, offering me $200 to open a new credit account works wonders. If they want to win back my business, they need more promotions like that one.
I'd imagine that the soundproof room was to prevent outside people from recording the marching orders that Pruitt was receiving from the gas and oil industry executives.
Of course, now that the room has been built, don't expect the next EPA admin from the Trump administration to be in a hurry to tear it down.
As someone who lives in a US "Blue" state that's rarely seen a tax increase plan that they didn't like, I have to wonder when our tax department will attempt something similar here.
Hell... we already have a 1% "data services" tax on things like Netflix and iCloud, and we are supposed to be paying a "use tax" on any retail sites that aren't currently collecting state income tax on their sales.
I think that they only reason that they haven't tried taxing social media sites next is because most of them are incorporated in states where it would make it more difficult to collect the revenue.
The problem is that most people (mostly contractors) usually try to buy the cheapest thing that they find at the Home Depot when they can get away with it. We really need to try to save those people from themselves.
We already have regulations in place that "dumb" switches aren't allowed to be so poorly made that they can catch your house on fire (no matter how cheap they are), so we should probably have something similar with the "smart" ones.
Default "abc" or "123" passwords on an IoT device should probably be treated like a faulty ground wire at this point, since they are becoming just about as dangerous.
Heh... you sound like someone who doesn't have children. Most of us grownups know spending real money on virtual goods is a bad idea, but your kid who's been stick on level 12 for the past two hours isn't going to feel the same way about it.
Parents who weren't smart enough to set up a restricted profile on the kid's accounts are going to learn this lesson the hard way.
I was kinda hoping for the "auto layoff thing" from Idiocracy. So many things from that movie are slowly becoming true, to the point where people could probably take plot points from that movie and turn them into CNN headlines without people noticing that they are from a movie.
Yeah, something tells me that Intel would have been more than willing to sweep this issue under the rug if it wasn't for Meltdown and Spectre already tarnishing Intel's reputation.
Losing the desktop performance crown to AMD this year is just icing on the cake.