This is also one of the few times a politician doesn't get to blame an underling. "But I didn't know Bob was shredding secret documents and working with arms dealers" might be able to pass, but you can't blame Bob for an illegal server full of government emails set up in your f**king house.
In Ice Cream Sandwich, Google added the "disable" feature (and added a compliance requirement that disallowed OEMs and carriers from disabling the disable feature) which allows you to disable pre-installed apps
One caveat to this is that - even though they're disabled as in not currently running - they will update in the Play Store if you have auto-updates turned on (and sometimes after doing so become enabled again).
Intel in general had better drivers than either AMD or nVidia. Unfortunately it's their hardware that's often lacking or not competitive.
That said, Intel also has a few GPU's that lack proper accelerated drivers for Linux and/or gave sucktastic performance.
Personally, I'm looking forward to when the "mobile" graphics vendors start to become more and more competetive with the big boys. Since those generally have Android drivers a port back up to linux-general shouldn't be too hard.
"It's not about 'richer' farms or 'poorer' farms, anyone can afford to dig a deeper well. The main problem is finding someone to do it......some drillers have waiting lists 8 months long. If you can't wait that long, you're in trouble."
Which comes down to richer and poorer.
I.E. If most people can only afford "Bob's well service" who charges $200/h, Bob is going to be booked solid.
Meanwhile, "ACE well service" charges $1200/h. They're less booked up as fewer people can afford their rates, so the richer farmers can get faster service.
It's pretty much the same thing with any type of contracting work, in most places. Here, if I wanted to redo my driveway in the middle of summer. When looking for a concrete guy, I found that I could pay more and get a contractor fairly quickly (for the ones that would even deem to do my little project). Alternately, I can get in line for the cheaper guy and wait longer.
To be fair, the more expensive guy was usually a company with many employees and various pieces of equipment, which allows them to get the jobs done faster than the smaller guys as well.
However if the actions mentioned in the tweet took place (aka a romantic relationship between a minor and an adult in a position of power), that would be a felony.
It's a little murky as to which the police chief is discussing (the tweet, or the act described in the tweet).
A lot of the issues I've had with suspend have been with the Nvidia/ATI proprietary video drivers, especially when switching video modes, and beyond that with USB peripherals
Suspending worked fine, when resuming I'd often have peripherals missings (often unplugging/replugging worked OK for keyboards, but not so much on a laptop) and plenty of weird stuff would occur with the video drivers.
Only in equal situations. If buddy is talking about his job and how interesting it is, it's different from talking about stuff that may be a business secret or slamming your employer.
I've met one guy who has one. Also met a few people with the Galaxy Gear, but usually it was something that was thrown in free/cheap with a plan. If smartwatches are smothering the sales of (certain) Swiss watches, they must have been on life-support to begin with.
Indeed. There are plenty of lower-tech ways that drugs get into prisons. For example, here's a good example caught right on camera (yet officials are still scratching their heads as to where this stuff comes from).
An associate of mine who lived/worked on a smaller farm said they essentially have a device which snaps a small elastic band over the scrotum, causing the blood flow to be cut off and for them to wither away.
Wasn't that the one where they got sucked into a D&D world, and the one character was cursed to be a frog (but magically cured) and thus couldn't leave because the magic cure didn't work in the real world?
I loved that cartoon. I was actually thinking about it when I read the headline, and thinking that a D&D TV series could be quite fun, probably more-so than a movie.
If they aren't good enough to secure their own network, then they certainly aren't f***ing good enough to identify the true source of an attack and initiate countermeasures without significant collateral damage.
Well, stuff like Netflix or iTunes might be a good example of successful innovation and monetization of online technologies.
For other stuff, it would be able being able to profit by "building a better mousetrap" without being sued into oblivion by protectionist cartels who want to keep the status quo (or patent trolls).
I think part of the issue is price-point. In the days before DLC, a lot of games came with later "expansion packs" which were essentially a few new levels and some added weapons/units/etc, but essentially the same core experience. Those generally cost less than the initial game, but were still a decent price and often *very* popular (especially Blizzard games such as Brood Wars, Frozen Throne, etc). They weren't much more than mods, albeit by the original publisher.
There were also the unoffical mods such as the aforementioned Desert Combat which - if they made any money - was by donation.
So where does that leave the 3rd-party paid-mod arena. Well, if it requires the original game, then *smart* publishers would put together the fact that "hey, this popular mod is driving extra sales of our game, great!" Some may be want a cut, which may also be something that needs to be worked out. But so long as the price is reasonable, I don't see any reason why a well-done mod would be less popular than an "expansion pack." I probably wouldn't pay $50 for most mods, but $5-20 is still enough to give some devs enough extra cash to make it worth investing the time into making a really polished mod.
He disagrees with current copyright law and how it's used, but also indicates that copyright is necessary and needs to live harmoniously with copyright. He even indicates that he's good with the monetization of new technologies under copyright. What he seems to have a beef with is how current copyright is used. He doesn't specifically say what's bad, but based on his answer I'd imagine that the resistance of the entrenched hollywood/music industry to new distribution and pay models is probably part of that. IMHO Copyright would still only be part of the problem though. The current situation with ISPs in the US and throttling traffic is another issue, and the issue between DRM+copyright another (especially when you look at "circumvention for personal use")
One thing that comes to mind would be back in the old "Battlefield 1942" days, the "Desert Combat" mod was kick-ass, and the devs who made it put in a lot of work to make it happen. Similarly, things like DOTA actually derive from mods to Starcraft/Warcraft etc.
Some of the mods to Doom also replaced almost everything except the engine.
It would be great if such things are free, but allowing professional modders to gain a little coin isn't. One thing that's sad is the lack of mod-support in many popular games (partly because - I believe - the publisher wants to re-use the engine for sequels will little change, and doesn't want competition).
"The truth is, if you are a woman, and someone threatens to murder you online, it's overwhelmingly likely that no help is coming, and you're on your own."
And as a woman, that's her view, but in reality if you're anyone (who isn't rich and famous, but even then) getting threatened online... it's going to take a *lot* before the police step in. There are many reasons for this, including a) People say stupid shit online, there's lots of noise, and it's not easy to decipher intent. Similarly, if somebody threats you on the street it may not get much action, unless it's a public action with something backing it. b) If your neighbour threatens you, the police can go over to his/her house and deal with it. When it's online, that person isn't likely using a real-name, and may not be anywhere in your jurisdiction or even country/continent c) There's often a prevaling lack of understanding of technology in the justice system d) Laziness or resourcing... due to (c) and (b)... it's work and resources to actually catch somebody and then sometimes even harder to convict. Again, hard to condone, but unless we want to wiretap everyone (well, they tried) or spend a month of work of three officers in order to track it down... sometimes things need a critical mass before they'll dedicate the effort.
None of the above are excusing the aholes that post terrible crap online, especially death threats, but saying that it's exclusively a problem of a certain group - whether it be based on gender, ethnicity, or other - is not particular accurate.
Of course, society is wonderfully unbalanced about such things. Sometimes nailing somebody for what is obviously a joke, particularly if the target is a rich scientologist like Tom Cruise
I don't see anyone complaining that "we don't have enough grey-hairs in IT, so we need to create special educational programs and opportunities tailored to getting them in that job market".
Sexism exists, ageism exists, racism exists. They're all factors, but they're not factors in all situations, nor are they always significant. Often a lack of diversity is often portrayed as a shortage due to [topic]ism, when many other things such as lack-of-interest to a particular group. Then the topic switches to "how can we make X job more appealing to group Y".... but frankly the reason it's often not appealing is that Y is f*'ing smart enough not to get involved with job X. You can't make it that much more appealing without changing the function of the position.
Now I'm all for making disadvantaged groups more employable, equalizing pay for similar positions, and for getting rid of the "old boys club", but at some people we have to realize that representation is not going to be an equal mix across all industries or positions, mainly due to the nature of the position.
And the FCC has what to do with cameras? They might say you can't block the wireless signal used to copy pictures to the internet, but they have ZERO jurisdiction regarding the filming/photography itself.
And yeah, if the organizers were jamming they might have a leg in the game. That doesn't preclude the organizers kicking somebody out for a violating the rules. Not sure what kinda crack you're on but you might want to cut back a bit.
That would almost be enough to make me switch professions... Actually in some cases, I wonder if it might not actually be functional. I don't know about gas-stations or convenience stores, but certainly a model based on this might be a fun and relatively quick way to create temporary shelters or structures.
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This is also one of the few times a politician doesn't get to blame an underling. "But I didn't know Bob was shredding secret documents and working with arms dealers" might be able to pass, but you can't blame Bob for an illegal server full of government emails set up in your f**king house.
In Ice Cream Sandwich, Google added the "disable" feature (and added a compliance requirement that disallowed OEMs and carriers from disabling the disable feature) which allows you to disable pre-installed apps
One caveat to this is that - even though they're disabled as in not currently running - they will update in the Play Store if you have auto-updates turned on (and sometimes after doing so become enabled again).
Intel in general had better drivers than either AMD or nVidia. Unfortunately it's their hardware that's often lacking or not competitive.
That said, Intel also has a few GPU's that lack proper accelerated drivers for Linux and/or gave sucktastic performance.
Personally, I'm looking forward to when the "mobile" graphics vendors start to become more and more competetive with the big boys. Since those generally have Android drivers a port back up to linux-general shouldn't be too hard.
"just look at the banking fiasco and how few people were jailed over it"
That's because the government was taking cash "settlements" left right and center in exchange for agreeing not to jail people...
"It's not about 'richer' farms or 'poorer' farms, anyone can afford to dig a deeper well. The main problem is finding someone to do it......some drillers have waiting lists 8 months long. If you can't wait that long, you're in trouble."
Which comes down to richer and poorer.
I.E. If most people can only afford "Bob's well service" who charges $200/h, Bob is going to be booked solid.
Meanwhile, "ACE well service" charges $1200/h. They're less booked up as fewer people can afford their rates, so the richer farmers can get faster service.
It's pretty much the same thing with any type of contracting work, in most places.
Here, if I wanted to redo my driveway in the middle of summer. When looking for a concrete guy, I found that I could pay more and get a contractor fairly quickly (for the ones that would even deem to do my little project). Alternately, I can get in line for the cheaper guy and wait longer.
To be fair, the more expensive guy was usually a company with many employees and various pieces of equipment, which allows them to get the jobs done faster than the smaller guys as well.
The issue of the tweet is not a felony.
However if the actions mentioned in the tweet took place (aka a romantic relationship between a minor and an adult in a position of power), that would be a felony.
It's a little murky as to which the police chief is discussing (the tweet, or the act described in the tweet).
A lot of the issues I've had with suspend have been with the Nvidia/ATI proprietary video drivers, especially when switching video modes, and beyond that with USB peripherals
Suspending worked fine, when resuming I'd often have peripherals missings (often unplugging/replugging worked OK for keyboards, but not so much on a laptop) and plenty of weird stuff would occur with the video drivers.
Only in equal situations. If buddy is talking about his job and how interesting it is, it's different from talking about stuff that may be a business secret or slamming your employer.
I've met one guy who has one. Also met a few people with the Galaxy Gear, but usually it was something that was thrown in free/cheap with a plan.
If smartwatches are smothering the sales of (certain) Swiss watches, they must have been on life-support to begin with.
"I just don't get why they don't put a small manual shutter over the webcam on laptops"
Actually on some brands/models they do. I have an Asus with a manual shutter.
I doubt it's castration, but have you seen how tight cowboy jeans are?
Indeed. There are plenty of lower-tech ways that drugs get into prisons. For example, here's a good example caught right on camera (yet officials are still scratching their heads as to where this stuff comes from).
An associate of mine who lived/worked on a smaller farm said they essentially have a device which snaps a small elastic band over the scrotum, causing the blood flow to be cut off and for them to wither away.
Wasn't that the one where they got sucked into a D&D world, and the one character was cursed to be a frog (but magically cured) and thus couldn't leave because the magic cure didn't work in the real world?
I loved that cartoon. I was actually thinking about it when I read the headline, and thinking that a D&D TV series could be quite fun, probably more-so than a movie.
"WHY castration of males is better for the animals and the humans who work with them"
Damn... I didn't realize work in that industry was so hard. You guys have my sympathy.
If they aren't good enough to secure their own network, then they certainly aren't f***ing good enough to identify the true source of an attack and initiate countermeasures without significant collateral damage.
Well, stuff like Netflix or iTunes might be a good example of successful innovation and monetization of online technologies.
For other stuff, it would be able being able to profit by "building a better mousetrap" without being sued into oblivion by protectionist cartels who want to keep the status quo (or patent trolls).
I think part of the issue is price-point. In the days before DLC, a lot of games came with later "expansion packs" which were essentially a few new levels and some added weapons/units/etc, but essentially the same core experience. Those generally cost less than the initial game, but were still a decent price and often *very* popular (especially Blizzard games such as Brood Wars, Frozen Throne, etc). They weren't much more than mods, albeit by the original publisher.
There were also the unoffical mods such as the aforementioned Desert Combat which - if they made any money - was by donation.
So where does that leave the 3rd-party paid-mod arena. Well, if it requires the original game, then *smart* publishers would put together the fact that "hey, this popular mod is driving extra sales of our game, great!" Some may be want a cut, which may also be something that needs to be worked out. But so long as the price is reasonable, I don't see any reason why a well-done mod would be less popular than an "expansion pack." I probably wouldn't pay $50 for most mods, but $5-20 is still enough to give some devs enough extra cash to make it worth investing the time into making a really polished mod.
He disagrees with current copyright law and how it's used, but also indicates that copyright is necessary and needs to live harmoniously with copyright. He even indicates that he's good with the monetization of new technologies under copyright. What he seems to have a beef with is how current copyright is used. He doesn't specifically say what's bad, but based on his answer I'd imagine that the resistance of the entrenched hollywood/music industry to new distribution and pay models is probably part of that.
IMHO Copyright would still only be part of the problem though. The current situation with ISPs in the US and throttling traffic is another issue, and the issue between DRM+copyright another (especially when you look at "circumvention for personal use")
One thing that comes to mind would be back in the old "Battlefield 1942" days, the "Desert Combat" mod was kick-ass, and the devs who made it put in a lot of work to make it happen. Similarly, things like DOTA actually derive from mods to Starcraft/Warcraft etc.
Some of the mods to Doom also replaced almost everything except the engine.
It would be great if such things are free, but allowing professional modders to gain a little coin isn't. One thing that's sad is the lack of mod-support in many popular games (partly because - I believe - the publisher wants to re-use the engine for sequels will little change, and doesn't want competition).
A common base password but a variation that you understand on a per-site basis?
"The truth is, if you are a woman, and someone threatens to murder you online, it's overwhelmingly likely that no help is coming, and you're on your own."
And as a woman, that's her view, but in reality if you're anyone (who isn't rich and famous, but even then) getting threatened online... it's going to take a *lot* before the police step in. There are many reasons for this, including
a) People say stupid shit online, there's lots of noise, and it's not easy to decipher intent. Similarly, if somebody threats you on the street it may not get much action, unless it's a public action with something backing it.
b) If your neighbour threatens you, the police can go over to his/her house and deal with it. When it's online, that person isn't likely using a real-name, and may not be anywhere in your jurisdiction or even country/continent
c) There's often a prevaling lack of understanding of technology in the justice system
d) Laziness or resourcing... due to (c) and (b)... it's work and resources to actually catch somebody and then sometimes even harder to convict. Again, hard to condone, but unless we want to wiretap everyone (well, they tried) or spend a month of work of three officers in order to track it down... sometimes things need a critical mass before they'll dedicate the effort.
None of the above are excusing the aholes that post terrible crap online, especially death threats, but saying that it's exclusively a problem of a certain group - whether it be based on gender, ethnicity, or other - is not particular accurate.
Of course, society is wonderfully unbalanced about such things. Sometimes nailing somebody for what is obviously a joke, particularly if the target is a rich scientologist like Tom Cruise
I don't see anyone complaining that "we don't have enough grey-hairs in IT, so we need to create special educational programs and opportunities tailored to getting them in that job market".
Sexism exists, ageism exists, racism exists. They're all factors, but they're not factors in all situations, nor are they always significant. Often a lack of diversity is often portrayed as a shortage due to [topic]ism, when many other things such as lack-of-interest to a particular group. Then the topic switches to "how can we make X job more appealing to group Y".... but frankly the reason it's often not appealing is that Y is f*'ing smart enough not to get involved with job X. You can't make it that much more appealing without changing the function of the position.
Now I'm all for making disadvantaged groups more employable, equalizing pay for similar positions, and for getting rid of the "old boys club", but at some people we have to realize that representation is not going to be an equal mix across all industries or positions, mainly due to the nature of the position.
And the FCC has what to do with cameras? They might say you can't block the wireless signal used to copy pictures to the internet, but they have ZERO jurisdiction regarding the filming/photography itself.
And yeah, if the organizers were jamming they might have a leg in the game. That doesn't preclude the organizers kicking somebody out for a violating the rules. Not sure what kinda crack you're on but you might want to cut back a bit.
That would almost be enough to make me switch professions...
Actually in some cases, I wonder if it might not actually be functional. I don't know about gas-stations or convenience stores, but certainly a model based on this might be a fun and relatively quick way to create temporary shelters or structures.