Oh, I'd imagine that private workers goof off too. The thing is, when they do it jeopardizes whatever project they're involved with, with monetary loss to the company.
In the case of the USPTO... well I'd imagine you've ready some of the stories of the horrific patents that keep getting passed (and how the USPTO claims they're sooooo overburdened). It's the whole country (and some would say other countries as well, see Apple V Samsung) that's suffering from *that* mess
Even BSG? I thought the remake was pretty good for that one. Unlike Star Trek etc, they didn't try to make it new and flashy... so the Galactica had a nice worn feeling instead of an iBridge...
My guess would be... Florida? I'm not sure on the need for AC though as the Nov-Feb temperatures seem to have highs around 16-22c, but perhaps it's due to humidity.
Even at wage/cost parity, it still might not cover the benefit of having an employee who is beholden to the company and less likely to report unpaid overtime and/or poor working conditions etc.
Look at the situation in Canada with TFW's. Approximately the same pay, but employees were benefiting from the ability to shaft employees while holding the "we'll pull your work visa if you don't tow the line" card.
Yeah, it's great that you've pushed potential opponents to spend $50,000,000 to counter your technology, but NOT if your R&D + production costs are $1,000,000,000+
It's like the issue with anti-missile shields. If an anti-missile-missile costs $5000, but the original missile costs $150, then you're likely going to lose the economic war of attrition...
At the very least these repeat offenders should get the ankle bracelet, be subject to house arrest, and have their vehicles crushed into itty bitty cubes.
I forgot to add, this should be *before* they kill somebody. If they still manage to do so, hard jail-time for murder.
It's not so much that the police won't get you, I'm fairly sure that the 55yr old alcoholic driver pisses them off just as much as the 23yr-old stoned/drunk driver. It's the court system. There have been several cases lately where older individuals have killed people after driving while suspended/unlicensed and/or intoxicated.
These particular individuals had already been nicked by the police, and had their license taken away (in one case, they guy didn't never had one), but they continue to drive unlicensed until they kill somebody. Since they're older, the courts are reluctant to hand them any sort of significant jail-time, but none of the other penalties keep them off the road. Eventually instead of being picked up by the cops, they kill somebody and end up on the news. The last guy - who has been caught several times and *NEVER* had a license - was pending an existing 30d sentence jail-time and now has been given two years... after he killed somebody.
At the very least these repeat offenders should get the ankle bracelet, be subject to house arrest, and have their vehicles crushed into itty bitty cubes.
That seems to be the game around here too. Older and a dangerous/illegal driver... well we don't want to throw you in the can because you're too old and might get sick there or something. So instead we'll just tell you what a bad boy you are and not to do it again.
Young and get caught? We'll bust you hard and fast to "teach you a lesson"...
720P actually does qualify as HD. I know this because I bought a 17" TV years back and was quite sad to see that its max resolution was little more than a VGA. When I researched the spec, 720P falls under hi-def.
So Comcast are actually being truthful about supporting HD. It's when somebody says they support 1080p or possibly "FULL-HD" (but do not) that they're being liars.
Essentially (as many others have already pointed out), they gave him a 1080i game - possibly at a crappier framerate than even real 1080i - while advertising 1080p. It would be interesting to see how this pans out as I'm guessing this is pretty common for many games, and not just Killzone
"The behaviour on their autobahns and highways is completely predictable"
If you do get caught driving like a douche in Germany, you can often say goodbye to your license and face some fairly stiff penalties in addition. Here (Canada), you can kill somebody and still be eligible to get your license back in a few years. Moreover, we seem to have a big issue with people driving unlicensed and often drunk to boot who - despite being caught repeatedly - seem to somehow get off with minor penalties up to and beyond the point of killing somebody.
Seriously, if you've already lost your license due to DUI and you drive down to the nearest bar to get loaded up on JD and beer, then kill somebody on the way home, you should be going away for *murder* for a very long time. The last one I saw was something like 18 months. It's pathetic, yet in this same province they purport to be tough on DUI by (illegally) lowering the limit against the federal regulation, nailing people who have had a bit of wine with dinner while allowing repeat drunks to flaunt the legal system until they kill somebody.
Hardware support, in particular, is very far behind
Amusingly, I had the opposite problem years back. The wireless drivers and stack were better on BSD, while on Linux they were hard to find, and often you ended up having to use ndiswrapper which was a nightmare (often resulting a decision between "do I upgrade my kernel and fix X, or keep my kernel and have working wifi").
Just taking a quick peek, it looks like USB3.0 works, but it depends on your host-controller whether it's supported or not.
Right now it is stupid to have any incandescent bulbs in your house
I can think of a number of reasons to have incandescent bulbs in a house, though most aren't related to power. The foremost is that if I break an incandescent bulb, I just scoop up the shards and toss them in the bin. Here's what they say to do if you break a CFL bulb. I'm sorry, but a broken bulb shouldn't require me to turn off my AC and essentially evacuate the room of vulnerable persons. LED bulbs are somewhat safer in that regard, but the light quality/quantity isn't realy as good and if I break one of those then I cry at the replacement cost.
Usually this means that I have the higher-efficiency bulbs in places where they're less likely to break, and I keep incandescent bulbs in places where there's a higher possibility of breakage (the shop, trouble-light, some lamps, etc). Generally the latter are areas that aren't on as often anyhow. As a bonus in the shop, the heat leakage actually warms things up a bit in the winter.
Also, one of my peeves against the new "efficient" bulbs is that - though they cost more - they were supposed to last much longer. This was much more of a cost-saver than the actual energy. I'm still up-in-the-air about LED bulbs, but I've found that CFL's burn out just as frequently as incandescents, possibly more-so in some situations (low-wattage incandescent tend to last a fairly long time).
Well if the radio/stereo was hooked in, how about hacking by overpowering the source signal and broadcasting some nasty parameters to take advantage of an exploit...?
Maybe they know a percentage based on the "look at me with my brand new [X]" posts. Alternately, if it's a camera, when pictures come with EXIF data saying they were taking with the new "Ubercam XYZ"
I'd say that home-user support is often worse than corporate support. Rarely have I had to delve deeply into the guts of somebody machine. Usually email is either just some headers floating by on a mailserver, or a list of message as I'm doing a transfer/restore on somebody's machine.
If a user's machine is somehow infected, you dump an image and restore a fairly well-known list of applications from scratch. Documents are on the network (also to be double-scanned by AV as necessary).
Home users though. Files can be anywhere. Documents can be anywhere. Going through an infected machine to clean out nastiness that came in deity-knows-when by deity-knows-how can involve sifting through a lot of crap. Copying to a fresh re-image still involves going through old accounts/files and trying to find what should be copied over. People have copious amounts of downloaded crap from the internet. Person documents. Personal finance info. Saved passwords. Very "personal" videos/pictures, etc The first question I usually ask before digging in is "is there any location you DON'T want me looking on your computer while I do a backup/restore". I also generally get clients to log in themselves rather than providing me with a password (or just reset the password with an admin disk/account) since many people use the same login for a lot of stuff.
I don't know what you've got against Philadelphia. Yeah, the ending was a little depressing, but the acting was top-knotch and the overall story was quite good.
As with drugs, some people are just users, but busts of users can also lead to those who are users/providers, or sometimes they can follow the user to his/her supplier.
"The Abrahamic religious nonsense about "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" needs to stop, or we'll never progress into a peaceful society."
There's revenge, and then there's balancing the risk of known criminals against the safety of society. When can you consider somebody who's a repeat-offender ready to enter "peaceful society." I'm not talking about the voyeurs, but those that have repeatedly caused hard to others despite attempts at rehabilitation? How about those for whom the difference between a somewhat sedate life and cutting out somebody's heart to eat it is an unstable cocktail of drugs that must be taken with the utmost precision?
Eye-for-an-eye was only useful where it discouraged bad behaviour, and I'd say that in many/most of the above causes the threat of incarceration does little to stop the behaviour, but segregation from society for violent/repeat offenders at least reduces the potential for further victims.
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Oh, I'd imagine that private workers goof off too. The thing is, when they do it jeopardizes whatever project they're involved with, with monetary loss to the company.
In the case of the USPTO... well I'd imagine you've ready some of the stories of the horrific patents that keep getting passed (and how the USPTO claims they're sooooo overburdened). It's the whole country (and some would say other countries as well, see Apple V Samsung) that's suffering from *that* mess
We'll try to hide it better next time...
Even BSG? I thought the remake was pretty good for that one. Unlike Star Trek etc, they didn't try to make it new and flashy... so the Galactica had a nice worn feeling instead of an iBridge...
As per the GP: "As a homeowner in Florida"
My guess would be... Florida? I'm not sure on the need for AC though as the Nov-Feb temperatures seem to have highs around 16-22c, but perhaps it's due to humidity.
Even at wage/cost parity, it still might not cover the benefit of having an employee who is beholden to the company and less likely to report unpaid overtime and/or poor working conditions etc.
Look at the situation in Canada with TFW's. Approximately the same pay, but employees were benefiting from the ability to shaft employees while holding the "we'll pull your work visa if you don't tow the line" card.
Yeah, it's great that you've pushed potential opponents to spend $50,000,000 to counter your technology, but NOT if your R&D + production costs are $1,000,000,000+
It's like the issue with anti-missile shields. If an anti-missile-missile costs $5000, but the original missile costs $150, then you're likely going to lose the economic war of attrition...
At the very least these repeat offenders should get the ankle bracelet, be subject to house arrest, and have their vehicles crushed into itty bitty cubes.
I forgot to add, this should be *before* they kill somebody. If they still manage to do so, hard jail-time for murder.
It's not so much that the police won't get you, I'm fairly sure that the 55yr old alcoholic driver pisses them off just as much as the 23yr-old stoned/drunk driver. It's the court system. There have been several cases lately where older individuals have killed people after driving while suspended/unlicensed and/or intoxicated.
These particular individuals had already been nicked by the police, and had their license taken away (in one case, they guy didn't never had one), but they continue to drive unlicensed until they kill somebody. Since they're older, the courts are reluctant to hand them any sort of significant jail-time, but none of the other penalties keep them off the road. Eventually instead of being picked up by the cops, they kill somebody and end up on the news. The last guy - who has been caught several times and *NEVER* had a license - was pending an existing 30d sentence jail-time and now has been given two years... after he killed somebody.
At the very least these repeat offenders should get the ankle bracelet, be subject to house arrest, and have their vehicles crushed into itty bitty cubes.
That seems to be the game around here too. Older and a dangerous/illegal driver... well we don't want to throw you in the can because you're too old and might get sick there or something. So instead we'll just tell you what a bad boy you are and not to do it again.
Young and get caught? We'll bust you hard and fast to "teach you a lesson"...
720P actually does qualify as HD. I know this because I bought a 17" TV years back and was quite sad to see that its max resolution was little more than a VGA. When I researched the spec, 720P falls under hi-def.
So Comcast are actually being truthful about supporting HD. It's when somebody says they support 1080p or possibly "FULL-HD" (but do not) that they're being liars.
Essentially (as many others have already pointed out), they gave him a 1080i game - possibly at a crappier framerate than even real 1080i - while advertising 1080p.
It would be interesting to see how this pans out as I'm guessing this is pretty common for many games, and not just Killzone
"The behaviour on their autobahns and highways is completely predictable"
If you do get caught driving like a douche in Germany, you can often say goodbye to your license and face some fairly stiff penalties in addition. Here (Canada), you can kill somebody and still be eligible to get your license back in a few years. Moreover, we seem to have a big issue with people driving unlicensed and often drunk to boot who - despite being caught repeatedly - seem to somehow get off with minor penalties up to and beyond the point of killing somebody.
Seriously, if you've already lost your license due to DUI and you drive down to the nearest bar to get loaded up on JD and beer, then kill somebody on the way home, you should be going away for *murder* for a very long time. The last one I saw was something like 18 months. It's pathetic, yet in this same province they purport to be tough on DUI by (illegally) lowering the limit against the federal regulation, nailing people who have had a bit of wine with dinner while allowing repeat drunks to flaunt the legal system until they kill somebody.
Hardware support, in particular, is very far behind
Amusingly, I had the opposite problem years back. The wireless drivers and stack were better on BSD, while on Linux they were hard to find, and often you ended up having to use ndiswrapper which was a nightmare (often resulting a decision between "do I upgrade my kernel and fix X, or keep my kernel and have working wifi").
Just taking a quick peek, it looks like USB3.0 works, but it depends on your host-controller whether it's supported or not.
Right now it is stupid to have any incandescent bulbs in your house
I can think of a number of reasons to have incandescent bulbs in a house, though most aren't related to power. The foremost is that if I break an incandescent bulb, I just scoop up the shards and toss them in the bin. Here's what they say to do if you break a CFL bulb. I'm sorry, but a broken bulb shouldn't require me to turn off my AC and essentially evacuate the room of vulnerable persons. LED bulbs are somewhat safer in that regard, but the light quality/quantity isn't realy as good and if I break one of those then I cry at the replacement cost.
Usually this means that I have the higher-efficiency bulbs in places where they're less likely to break, and I keep incandescent bulbs in places where there's a higher possibility of breakage (the shop, trouble-light, some lamps, etc). Generally the latter are areas that aren't on as often anyhow. As a bonus in the shop, the heat leakage actually warms things up a bit in the winter.
Also, one of my peeves against the new "efficient" bulbs is that - though they cost more - they were supposed to last much longer. This was much more of a cost-saver than the actual energy. I'm still up-in-the-air about LED bulbs, but I've found that CFL's burn out just as frequently as incandescents, possibly more-so in some situations (low-wattage incandescent tend to last a fairly long time).
Well if the radio/stereo was hooked in, how about hacking by overpowering the source signal and broadcasting some nasty parameters to take advantage of an exploit...?
Sounds like good security to me. Car can't be stolen because it won't start. If it is started, it incinerates the car thieves...
Maybe they know a percentage based on the "look at me with my brand new [X]" posts.
Alternately, if it's a camera, when pictures come with EXIF data saying they were taking with the new "Ubercam XYZ"
+1 information
-1 Too much information...
If there's a defect in the VM software or hypervisor, it might be exploitable to break out of the VM and attack the root OS.
I'd say that home-user support is often worse than corporate support. Rarely have I had to delve deeply into the guts of somebody machine. Usually email is either just some headers floating by on a mailserver, or a list of message as I'm doing a transfer/restore on somebody's machine.
If a user's machine is somehow infected, you dump an image and restore a fairly well-known list of applications from scratch. Documents are on the network (also to be double-scanned by AV as necessary).
Home users though. Files can be anywhere. Documents can be anywhere. Going through an infected machine to clean out nastiness that came in deity-knows-when by deity-knows-how can involve sifting through a lot of crap. Copying to a fresh re-image still involves going through old accounts/files and trying to find what should be copied over. People have copious amounts of downloaded crap from the internet. Person documents. Personal finance info. Saved passwords. Very "personal" videos/pictures, etc
The first question I usually ask before digging in is "is there any location you DON'T want me looking on your computer while I do a backup/restore". I also generally get clients to log in themselves rather than providing me with a password (or just reset the password with an admin disk/account) since many people use the same login for a lot of stuff.
I don't know what you've got against Philadelphia. Yeah, the ending was a little depressing, but the acting was top-knotch and the overall story was quite good.
Who says it's only one? This is the one that made the news, and probably he was easier to get a warrant on due to his past history.
If it's catching known hashes, I doubt that Jill sending a picture of herself to John (or vise versa) is going to be flagged.
As with drugs, some people are just users, but busts of users can also lead to those who are users/providers, or sometimes they can follow the user to his/her supplier.
"The Abrahamic religious nonsense about "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" needs to stop, or we'll never progress into a peaceful society."
There's revenge, and then there's balancing the risk of known criminals against the safety of society. When can you consider somebody who's a repeat-offender ready to enter "peaceful society." I'm not talking about the voyeurs, but those that have repeatedly caused hard to others despite attempts at rehabilitation? How about those for whom the difference between a somewhat sedate life and cutting out somebody's heart to eat it is an unstable cocktail of drugs that must be taken with the utmost precision?
Eye-for-an-eye was only useful where it discouraged bad behaviour, and I'd say that in many/most of the above causes the threat of incarceration does little to stop the behaviour, but segregation from society for violent/repeat offenders at least reduces the potential for further victims.