We have an Intravascular Ultrasound machine that we bought new in 2008. We were looking to replace it next year because, according to the vendor, it runs Windows 98 and it doesn't have an interface for our reporting systems. (An interface is required for use with our electronic medical record.)
Up until now we used it without any interface with any of our systems. The only output it gave (besides it's screen) was that it would burn CDs and had a dedicated thermal printer for 3x5" still images.
Funny. I was playing a video game on my phone while i had the slashdot page up on my desktop computer.
Both screens were front of my face. If the phone screen was to do facial recognition I would have no doubt that it would think that I was looking right at it, while my eyes were actually focused on the monitor 18" behind it.
So unless the facial recognition is so good that it can see what depth the eyes are focused at, I don't see this as a particularly difficult thing to thwart.
I suspect that the next bubble will bust the myth that you can't lose via this strategy (e.g. ``you can't lose by investing in real estate'').
I never said "you can't lose". I said you're much better served:
1 - The average fund manager does... average. 2 - The average client of the average fund manager does average - the expense ratio. 3 - Therefore the average client of the average fund manager does less than average.
You're better served by putting the money in a total market index fund with a (very) low expense ratio and get... an average return.
If the market goes down, you will lose money. Anyone that promises you otherwise should be avoided. Just as much as someone promising to beat the market consistently (or someone promising better than average returns over any time period).
1 - Stocks go from being owned based on a ledger to being "barer". If you own the stock on the block chain, you own the stock. This means that if someone hacks your computer he can own your stocks. Much easier than trying to get ownership of your stocks via Vanguard or Fidelity, even if they get your password to those accounts.
1a - If someone owns the ledger, they can own all your stocks. I'll trust Vanguard or Fidelity. Thankyouverymuch.
2 - Trading stocks currently has a cost and a tax implication. Cost may go down to zero. Selling a stock without getting a tax implication is going to get the IRS on your case. You don't want their attention. Al Capone sure didn't.
3 - This will promote more trading for stocks. Trading stocks versus a 'Buy and Hold' strategy loses out the vast majority of the time. Market timing doesn't work in the long run. The number of fund managers that can beat the market yearly for a decade or more is vanishingly small and cannot be predicted in advance. Individual investors would be much better served by investing in low expense ratio total market index funds.
Because Amazon Marketplace has become the dominant player in the book selling universe. Not a monopoly, but certainly the largest single player.
You don't have to be a monopoly to be regulated as such by the government. Microsoft wasn't a monopoly when the government forced them to decouple IE from Windows.
Similarly, the inability to being able to sell your book on Amazon Marketplace (not Amazon) would curtail any book seller.
If Apple is making their own ARM chips, presumably they can put them in at-cost as a co-processor along with an Intel chip on their home computer line.
Benefits of the Hybrid: * Increase adoption of ARM as you deprecate Intel chips over a few generations * Run iOS apps at full speed while the Intel processor handles i86 tasks * Not be shackled by poor performance of ARM on desktop for individuals running apps that are processor-dependent and slow an Intel chip to a crawl. * (if you choose to make hybrid a long term solution) Have apps that run in multiprocessor mode with some processes running on each chip, making your home computer faster than all other manufacturers who are not selling multi-processor solutions.
I've been plugged in since the late 80s and on my device for many hours a day. Was never interested in Social Media stuff but had a Facebook login from back in the day. I would log in once every couple months and add any "friends" that found me.
About a year ago I suddenly found that I was logging into Facebook several times a day to read political stuff that showed up on my feed. I started to get more agitated in general and got sucked into various FB political arguments that no one was ever going to win.
After six months of this, I deleted the Facebook app from my phone and stopped going to the website. I regained my calm quite quickly.
FB really does tend to amplify the grief and frustration that people feel in real life. I haven't deleted my Facebook account yet, but I've only logged in once this year so far.
The idea that the 1% has all the power is a myth. The IRS tax stats are freely available for anyone to see and analyze. The 1% (everyone making approx $500k per year or more) only accounts for 19% of total income in the U.S. The vast majority of economic power in the U.S. (64% of all income) rests with those making $50k-$500k per year.
Who care about income? Wealth is where the power is.
The top 1% in net worth in the U.S. hold 40% of the nation's wealth. The bottom 50% in net worth of the U.S. population combined hold 1% of the nation's wealth.
I just tried it for the first time, and it works great.
1. Go to https://www.locast.org/ and register and have it note that I live in Bethlehem, PA. It picked Philly as my local station and I went along with it. 2. Downloaded the Locast add-on for Kodi and entered my Locast username and password. 3. Watch any broadcast station in Kodi.
Double bonus since I have Kodi installed on my nettop computer hooked up to my Livingroom TV.
On Black Friday there were sales on the previous generation 10.5" iPad Pro. Picked up the 512GB version and exceedingly happy with it so far. I think the offer (at Best Buy) was $200 off of list price.
You get relatively great deals if you live off of the edge. And, frankly, this iPad was the best available up until a few months ago. Why wouldn't I be happy with it.
Agree. We find out of these things now because of the internet and everyone feeling that their story needs to be told.
A neighbor of mine let a friend's son stay over the summer. One weekend when the neighbor and his family were out of town, the kid invited ~30 people over and thrashed the place. (Another neighbor was watching the place and let the owners know that night.)
Didn't make the papers. The kid was kicked out and his parents were informed (and presumably paid to have the place professionally cleaned).
I certainly hope they engineered the car to isolate it's entertainment console from the controls (and computer control systems) because if they didn't then there is a big security issue with that alone.
They most certainly isolate the infotainment system.
While it's fairly stable, I've had episodes of unresponsiveness with the infotainment system.
I've rebooted it (white driving!) by holding down the two scroll wheels on the steering wheel at the same time for ~5 seconds. The system takes about 15-20 seconds to reboot and it does not effect driving performance at all.
widespread adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography "will be a long and difficult process"
What other computer technology took 20 years to get widespread adoption? The last one I could think of was either the Internet itself or the WWW.
Why would cryptography take so long?
Or are we talking about getting quantum-resistant cryptography in our InternetOfThings devices? I'm screwed if someone's using that much resources to hack my car. It would probably be cheaper to hire a league of assassins to take me out.
The battery in an EV is not designed to last the life of the car. The battery drops to 70% capacity after as few as 500 charging cycles.
I'm skeptical of that fact.
I have a Tesla Model S I bought in 3/2014. I've put (as of today) 100k miles on it and plug it in every single night since I got the car. (A heck of a lot more than 500 charge cycles)
The battery is almost exactly 99% as efficient as on day one. I base that both on the estimated mileage at full charge as well as the estimated mileage at the end of my work day (driving ~70 miles to and from work).
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It's the height of stupidity to have 50% of your retirement in any one company, no matter how awesome you may think it is.
When I retire, I plan to have 60% in a total stock market fund (VTSAX) and 40% in various fix income index funds and CDs.
VTSAX has about 2% invested in FB. Should I research every company in VTSAX in order to vote accurately on a proxy form?
No. And I'm quite happy that Vanguard doesn't even send me a proxy form. Only thing worse than not voting is voting when not educated on the matter.
It's Win98. There's no admin. ;-)
The system works perfectly fine. There's no way anyone would think of giving approval for non-vendor software on the system. Period.
So we'll dump it and get a new box, probably by the end of the year. Hopefully the next one will last more than 10 years, but I'm skeptical.
We have an Intravascular Ultrasound machine that we bought new in 2008. We were looking to replace it next year because, according to the vendor, it runs Windows 98 and it doesn't have an interface for our reporting systems. (An interface is required for use with our electronic medical record.)
Up until now we used it without any interface with any of our systems. The only output it gave (besides it's screen) was that it would burn CDs and had a dedicated thermal printer for 3x5" still images.
Funny. I was playing a video game on my phone while i had the slashdot page up on my desktop computer.
Both screens were front of my face. If the phone screen was to do facial recognition I would have no doubt that it would think that I was looking right at it, while my eyes were actually focused on the monitor 18" behind it.
So unless the facial recognition is so good that it can see what depth the eyes are focused at, I don't see this as a particularly difficult thing to thwart.
I would be curious how many girls watch the movie. But I doubt it's many.
My daughter was excited to wait for this movie, as are most of her friends. She's 15, in high school.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is pretty main stream and a lot of young girls are watching the films.
We didn't get to it this weekend, but I'm sure we'll end up watching it on video if we don't manage to get to the theater while it's still out.
I suspect that the next bubble will bust the myth that you can't lose via this strategy (e.g. ``you can't lose by investing in real estate'').
I never said "you can't lose". I said you're much better served:
1 - The average fund manager does ... average.
2 - The average client of the average fund manager does average - the expense ratio.
3 - Therefore the average client of the average fund manager does less than average.
You're better served by putting the money in a total market index fund with a (very) low expense ratio and get ... an average return.
If the market goes down, you will lose money. Anyone that promises you otherwise should be avoided. Just as much as someone promising to beat the market consistently (or someone promising better than average returns over any time period).
1 - Stocks go from being owned based on a ledger to being "barer". If you own the stock on the block chain, you own the stock. This means that if someone hacks your computer he can own your stocks. Much easier than trying to get ownership of your stocks via Vanguard or Fidelity, even if they get your password to those accounts.
1a - If someone owns the ledger, they can own all your stocks. I'll trust Vanguard or Fidelity. Thankyouverymuch.
2 - Trading stocks currently has a cost and a tax implication. Cost may go down to zero. Selling a stock without getting a tax implication is going to get the IRS on your case. You don't want their attention. Al Capone sure didn't.
3 - This will promote more trading for stocks. Trading stocks versus a 'Buy and Hold' strategy loses out the vast majority of the time. Market timing doesn't work in the long run. The number of fund managers that can beat the market yearly for a decade or more is vanishingly small and cannot be predicted in advance. Individual investors would be much better served by investing in low expense ratio total market index funds.
Because Amazon Marketplace has become the dominant player in the book selling universe. Not a monopoly, but certainly the largest single player.
You don't have to be a monopoly to be regulated as such by the government. Microsoft wasn't a monopoly when the government forced them to decouple IE from Windows.
Similarly, the inability to being able to sell your book on Amazon Marketplace (not Amazon) would curtail any book seller.
Listen to the Planet Money podcast exactly about this sort of thing: https://www.npr.org/sections/m...
If Apple is making their own ARM chips, presumably they can put them in at-cost as a co-processor along with an Intel chip on their home computer line.
Benefits of the Hybrid:
* Increase adoption of ARM as you deprecate Intel chips over a few generations
* Run iOS apps at full speed while the Intel processor handles i86 tasks
* Not be shackled by poor performance of ARM on desktop for individuals running apps that are processor-dependent and slow an Intel chip to a crawl.
* (if you choose to make hybrid a long term solution) Have apps that run in multiprocessor mode with some processes running on each chip, making your home computer faster than all other manufacturers who are not selling multi-processor solutions.
Stop watching stuff that pisses you off.
Pretty sure you hit it right there.
I've been plugged in since the late 80s and on my device for many hours a day. Was never interested in Social Media stuff but had a Facebook login from back in the day. I would log in once every couple months and add any "friends" that found me.
About a year ago I suddenly found that I was logging into Facebook several times a day to read political stuff that showed up on my feed. I started to get more agitated in general and got sucked into various FB political arguments that no one was ever going to win.
After six months of this, I deleted the Facebook app from my phone and stopped going to the website. I regained my calm quite quickly.
FB really does tend to amplify the grief and frustration that people feel in real life. I haven't deleted my Facebook account yet, but I've only logged in once this year so far.
The idea that the 1% has all the power is a myth. The IRS tax stats are freely available for anyone to see and analyze. The 1% (everyone making approx $500k per year or more) only accounts for 19% of total income in the U.S. The vast majority of economic power in the U.S. (64% of all income) rests with those making $50k-$500k per year.
Who care about income? Wealth is where the power is.
The top 1% in net worth in the U.S. hold 40% of the nation's wealth. The bottom 50% in net worth of the U.S. population combined hold 1% of the nation's wealth.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (First paragraph and first chart.)
But that was just for a weekend. Or are they saying they took the weekend off and they're back to business now?
This has been going on for quite some time now. Not just a weekend in January.
Going extinct because of the 100% compliance in condom use?
I just tried it for the first time, and it works great.
1. Go to https://www.locast.org/ and register and have it note that I live in Bethlehem, PA. It picked Philly as my local station and I went along with it.
2. Downloaded the Locast add-on for Kodi and entered my Locast username and password.
3. Watch any broadcast station in Kodi.
Double bonus since I have Kodi installed on my nettop computer hooked up to my Livingroom TV.
Works on Firefox on Linux Mint, only I let Firefox enable DRM.
I've got Momento playing now.
Frankly, I don't see why it took so long for this to be a thing. It's basically like viewing a movie on TV except the ads are more targeted.
On Black Friday there were sales on the previous generation 10.5" iPad Pro. Picked up the 512GB version and exceedingly happy with it so far. I think the offer (at Best Buy) was $200 off of list price.
You get relatively great deals if you live off of the edge. And, frankly, this iPad was the best available up until a few months ago. Why wouldn't I be happy with it.
Agree. We find out of these things now because of the internet and everyone feeling that their story needs to be told.
A neighbor of mine let a friend's son stay over the summer. One weekend when the neighbor and his family were out of town, the kid invited ~30 people over and thrashed the place. (Another neighbor was watching the place and let the owners know that night.)
Didn't make the papers. The kid was kicked out and his parents were informed (and presumably paid to have the place professionally cleaned).
You mean this one: https://xkcd.com/1234/
I certainly hope they engineered the car to isolate it's entertainment console from the controls (and computer control systems) because if they didn't then there is a big security issue with that alone.
They most certainly isolate the infotainment system.
While it's fairly stable, I've had episodes of unresponsiveness with the infotainment system.
I've rebooted it (white driving!) by holding down the two scroll wheels on the steering wheel at the same time for ~5 seconds. The system takes about 15-20 seconds to reboot and it does not effect driving performance at all.
widespread adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography "will be a long and difficult process"
What other computer technology took 20 years to get widespread adoption? The last one I could think of was either the Internet itself or the WWW.
Why would cryptography take so long?
Or are we talking about getting quantum-resistant cryptography in our InternetOfThings devices? I'm screwed if someone's using that much resources to hack my car. It would probably be cheaper to hire a league of assassins to take me out.
No. Sugar's too expensive with all the duties on it. High Fructose Corn Syrup is in everything.
So researchers have discovered that short term gains can come at the expense of long term success?
Unfortunately the AI was deleted before it could take control of the company and shut it down for the greater good of humanity.
Heard it was available for 20 people. If so, that's not a lot of incentive to apply. My guess is that you've got more than 20 applications already.
The battery in an EV is not designed to last the life of the car. The battery drops to 70% capacity after as few as 500 charging cycles.
I'm skeptical of that fact.
I have a Tesla Model S I bought in 3/2014. I've put (as of today) 100k miles on it and plug it in every single night since I got the car. (A heck of a lot more than 500 charge cycles)
The battery is almost exactly 99% as efficient as on day one. I base that both on the estimated mileage at full charge as well as the estimated mileage at the end of my work day (driving ~70 miles to and from work).
Could someone rephrase it in terms of a car analogy?
Elon Musk is taking preorders on the next generation Tesla Roadster, with a peak speed of at least 1000mph.
He promises delivery next summer.