Huh let's look in the UK, and all those previous terrorist attacks with the same reason that nobody called tiplines.
People tipped the authorities about the Manchester attacker on 5 separate occasions. The problem in stopping these attacks is not a lack of information. Which also means that additional surveillance will not lead to better safety.
By supporting the coal industry instead of phasing out coal and reversing emission reduction legislation, it was already impossible for the USA to reach the goals of the Paris climate deal. Puling out just makes it official.
I've never heard of rsync mangling data in transit. Are you sure it's not a case of corruption when trying to back up a file while it is being written to? That could happen if you don't create a snapshot of live data, but it's not a problem specific to rsync.
So you never heard of the IRA, ETA, RAF? Terrorism isn't new to Europe.
Also, I think blaming Islam as a whole even for the Islamic terrorism is mischaracterizing the problem. If you read about the background of the terrorists, many of them are people who were violent for a long time and turned to fundamentalism as short as 1 or 2 years before they did their attack. So they're not deeply religious Muslims becoming violent, they're angry people given a cause by religious extremists.
Politics has been becoming increasingly polarized for quite some time now. Trump's nomination and election is part of that trend, but it was certainly not the start of it. Unfortunately, people in the middle get attacked from both sides.
Netflix is approaching 100 million subscribers; looking at it that way they find him $0.20/subscriber funny. That might not be an unreasonable amount if his shows get a lot of views.
I do think that video streaming has a problem of being very fragmented. If you subscribe to a music streaming service, chances of finding a particular album you're looking for on there are pretty high. If you subscribe to a video streaming service, you get access to more video than you could ever watch, but the chances of finding a particular show you're looking for are rather small, as many of the high profile shows are exclusive to different services.
Obviously some video series are more costly to make than a music album, so it may not be reasonable to expect to get access to nearly everything for $10/month. But then I'd prefer to pay per show rather than pay for a package that I'm only going to watch one or two shows of. And for a price that matches the fact that you're renting the video, not buying it, since - as you point out - you don't actually own it.
This sounds like something that is better decided at the local level, so the state getting involved seems like overreach to me.
Note that unlike what the title claims, this is not only about banning but also about restricting.There is a difference between renting out your house when you happen to be away and renting it out almost full time. So restrictions on the number of rental days per year can be useful to keep areas that are in demand by tourists as residential areas. 180 days per year is such a generous cap that I'm not sure it would prevent houses from being used as rentals all year round.
The bugs are in the ALSA backend of Firefox, not in ALSA itself. The backend was apparently unmaintained for some time and now instead of fixing it they want to drop it.
In general, they wouldn't know SSNs. Maybe if someone was logged in while doing the search and earlier associated a SSN with their Google account for some reason. Google probably doesn't have people's MAC addresses either. It seems the police is asking for anything that would help them identify a person no matter how unlikely that Google can actually provide it.
He doesn't tackle anything. He is very good at figuring out what people are upset about and then tweeting about it. He is not good at working with other people to actually solve problems. It's been over 10 years (he left the VVD in 2004, founded the PVV in 2006) and his party is still essentially a one-man show. He can't participate in a government because his party doesn't have people capable of becoming ministers. Even the experiment where his party supported a minority government (2010-2012) failed when compromises had to be made.
Being ad-free is worth something. I often listen to music while doing something else and that makes the attention-grabbing nature of ads extra annoying. $10/month is comparable to what other streaming services like Spotify charge for ad-free streams.
The XBone is built around an AMD APU, but I don't know which desktop Radeon card would be the closest to it. Consoles do get more performance out of the same hardware than PCs though, because of lower-level APIs and having only one optimization target.
They probably went into VR because if VR became the dominant way of playing games, it would eat their existing business. It's similar to why they made SteamOS as an insurance policy against Microsoft locking them out of the Windows platform.
I think it's safe to say now that VR won't replace PC gaming on a monitor, certainly not any time soon. But since their existing business is doing fine and they didn't invest more than they could afford, it doesn't matter for them if VR fails or becomes a niche product.
Personally, I think VR becoming a niche product is the most likely outcome. People buy expensive steering wheels or flight sticks to get more immersed in their favorite games and, for certain genres, VR can do the same.
A big difference is that Pokemon Go actually required the internet to make the game possible, as there is interaction between players. Mario is a single player game, so the internet connection is only required for DRM. I imagine users will be less accepting of it for that reason.
The first round of net neutrality legislation in the Netherlands (2011) was adopted to stop mobile providers from charging subscribers extra for the "service" of not blocking instant messaging and VOIP applications like Whatsapp and Skype, which were eating into their revenues streams from calls and SMS (text messages).
The current round of legislation (May 2016) forbids zero-rating. It's strict only in the sense that, like the 2011 law at the time, it's ahead of what the EU is discussing at the moment. If common sense prevails over lobbying, the EU will eventually reach the same conclusion: that zero-rating is bad for consumers and new services.
The GSMA says the tighter laws in the Netherlands will 'hinder development of innovative services and consumer choice'.
With zero-rating, it's the providers who push users towards particular services (like music streaming subscriptions); without zero-rating the consumer has an equal choice between services. So clearly innovation is better served by not having zero-rating, since that will provide a level playing field for new services.
Jesus Christ. My Atari 2600 Superman game had a cartoon of Superman on the front of the box, but only a pixillated blob in the actual game. You didn't hear about people demanding a refund because of that. Of course the advertising lies. What kind of surprise is that for anyone?
That the game wouldn't look as good as the cartoon should have been obvious to every Atari 2600 owner. However, what did happen in the 80's is that a game with ports to multiple computer systems would have screenshots on the back of the best looking port, not of the port that was actually in the box. That was misleading, in my opinion.
It reminds me of people blaming compiler bugs for non-working code. While it does happen that a compiler generates incorrect code (I've encountered a few instances over the years), unless you either have reduced the problem to a minimal test case or examined the generated assembly and located the problem there, it's far more likely that it's a case of not digging deep enough to find a bug in your own code.
Not a big fan of SystemD, but I can tolerate it. I don't have an irrational hatred of PulseAudio either, but I've had applications playing no audio at all or playing laggy or choppy audio on three occasions and each time the problem went away after deinstalling PulseAudio. There really is something wrong with either PulseAudio itself or its integration with other components on this system (openSUSE KDE5).
Exactly. The core issue is that Windows 10 is collecting personal information that is not required for the functioning of the OS or the services it provides to the user. There doesn't have to be a discussion over where Microsoft stores the information, since they shouldn't be collecting it in the first place.
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Huh let's look in the UK, and all those previous terrorist attacks with the same reason that nobody called tiplines.
People tipped the authorities about the Manchester attacker on 5 separate occasions. The problem in stopping these attacks is not a lack of information. Which also means that additional surveillance will not lead to better safety.
By supporting the coal industry instead of phasing out coal and reversing emission reduction legislation, it was already impossible for the USA to reach the goals of the Paris climate deal. Puling out just makes it official.
...Uber starts paying its drivers what it thinks they're willing to accept.
I've never heard of rsync mangling data in transit. Are you sure it's not a case of corruption when trying to back up a file while it is being written to? That could happen if you don't create a snapshot of live data, but it's not a problem specific to rsync.
So you never heard of the IRA, ETA, RAF? Terrorism isn't new to Europe.
Also, I think blaming Islam as a whole even for the Islamic terrorism is mischaracterizing the problem. If you read about the background of the terrorists, many of them are people who were violent for a long time and turned to fundamentalism as short as 1 or 2 years before they did their attack. So they're not deeply religious Muslims becoming violent, they're angry people given a cause by religious extremists.
Politics has been becoming increasingly polarized for quite some time now. Trump's nomination and election is part of that trend, but it was certainly not the start of it. Unfortunately, people in the middle get attacked from both sides.
Exactly. If you're shopping for the cheapest engineers, no matter where they're from, you're not going to get the top talent.
Netflix is approaching 100 million subscribers; looking at it that way they find him $0.20/subscriber funny. That might not be an unreasonable amount if his shows get a lot of views.
I do think that video streaming has a problem of being very fragmented. If you subscribe to a music streaming service, chances of finding a particular album you're looking for on there are pretty high. If you subscribe to a video streaming service, you get access to more video than you could ever watch, but the chances of finding a particular show you're looking for are rather small, as many of the high profile shows are exclusive to different services.
Obviously some video series are more costly to make than a music album, so it may not be reasonable to expect to get access to nearly everything for $10/month. But then I'd prefer to pay per show rather than pay for a package that I'm only going to watch one or two shows of. And for a price that matches the fact that you're renting the video, not buying it, since - as you point out - you don't actually own it.
This sounds like something that is better decided at the local level, so the state getting involved seems like overreach to me.
Note that unlike what the title claims, this is not only about banning but also about restricting.There is a difference between renting out your house when you happen to be away and renting it out almost full time. So restrictions on the number of rental days per year can be useful to keep areas that are in demand by tourists as residential areas. 180 days per year is such a generous cap that I'm not sure it would prevent houses from being used as rentals all year round.
The bugs are in the ALSA backend of Firefox, not in ALSA itself. The backend was apparently unmaintained for some time and now instead of fixing it they want to drop it.
Chromium plays audio just fine without PulseAudio as well. So I think it's only an optional dependency.
In general, they wouldn't know SSNs. Maybe if someone was logged in while doing the search and earlier associated a SSN with their Google account for some reason. Google probably doesn't have people's MAC addresses either. It seems the police is asking for anything that would help them identify a person no matter how unlikely that Google can actually provide it.
He doesn't tackle anything. He is very good at figuring out what people are upset about and then tweeting about it. He is not good at working with other people to actually solve problems. It's been over 10 years (he left the VVD in 2004, founded the PVV in 2006) and his party is still essentially a one-man show. He can't participate in a government because his party doesn't have people capable of becoming ministers. Even the experiment where his party supported a minority government (2010-2012) failed when compromises had to be made.
Being ad-free is worth something. I often listen to music while doing something else and that makes the attention-grabbing nature of ads extra annoying. $10/month is comparable to what other streaming services like Spotify charge for ad-free streams.
The XBone is built around an AMD APU, but I don't know which desktop Radeon card would be the closest to it. Consoles do get more performance out of the same hardware than PCs though, because of lower-level APIs and having only one optimization target.
They probably went into VR because if VR became the dominant way of playing games, it would eat their existing business. It's similar to why they made SteamOS as an insurance policy against Microsoft locking them out of the Windows platform.
I think it's safe to say now that VR won't replace PC gaming on a monitor, certainly not any time soon. But since their existing business is doing fine and they didn't invest more than they could afford, it doesn't matter for them if VR fails or becomes a niche product.
Personally, I think VR becoming a niche product is the most likely outcome. People buy expensive steering wheels or flight sticks to get more immersed in their favorite games and, for certain genres, VR can do the same.
It's not as bad as the ban, but that doesn't make it good.
A big difference is that Pokemon Go actually required the internet to make the game possible, as there is interaction between players. Mario is a single player game, so the internet connection is only required for DRM. I imagine users will be less accepting of it for that reason.
The first round of net neutrality legislation in the Netherlands (2011) was adopted to stop mobile providers from charging subscribers extra for the "service" of not blocking instant messaging and VOIP applications like Whatsapp and Skype, which were eating into their revenues streams from calls and SMS (text messages).
The current round of legislation (May 2016) forbids zero-rating. It's strict only in the sense that, like the 2011 law at the time, it's ahead of what the EU is discussing at the moment. If common sense prevails over lobbying, the EU will eventually reach the same conclusion: that zero-rating is bad for consumers and new services.
The GSMA says the tighter laws in the Netherlands will 'hinder development of innovative services and consumer choice'.
With zero-rating, it's the providers who push users towards particular services (like music streaming subscriptions); without zero-rating the consumer has an equal choice between services. So clearly innovation is better served by not having zero-rating, since that will provide a level playing field for new services.
Jesus Christ. My Atari 2600 Superman game had a cartoon of Superman on the front of the box, but only a pixillated blob in the actual game. You didn't hear about people demanding a refund because of that. Of course the advertising lies. What kind of surprise is that for anyone?
That the game wouldn't look as good as the cartoon should have been obvious to every Atari 2600 owner. However, what did happen in the 80's is that a game with ports to multiple computer systems would have screenshots on the back of the best looking port, not of the port that was actually in the box. That was misleading, in my opinion.
It reminds me of people blaming compiler bugs for non-working code. While it does happen that a compiler generates incorrect code (I've encountered a few instances over the years), unless you either have reduced the problem to a minimal test case or examined the generated assembly and located the problem there, it's far more likely that it's a case of not digging deep enough to find a bug in your own code.
Not a big fan of SystemD, but I can tolerate it. I don't have an irrational hatred of PulseAudio either, but I've had applications playing no audio at all or playing laggy or choppy audio on three occasions and each time the problem went away after deinstalling PulseAudio. There really is something wrong with either PulseAudio itself or its integration with other components on this system (openSUSE KDE5).
It requires PulseAudio. I doubt this is a nefarious plan by MS, but it does annoy me, since I deinstalled PulseAudio after it caused problems.
Unacceptable? Is this Wikipedia?
I know it's defying tradition, but you could, you know, RTFA. (The first article, describing the allegations.)
Anyway, it's about the telemetry data.
Exactly. The core issue is that Windows 10 is collecting personal information that is not required for the functioning of the OS or the services it provides to the user. There doesn't have to be a discussion over where Microsoft stores the information, since they shouldn't be collecting it in the first place.