...and lawsuits from the companies who stands to lose revenue from a government-deployed solution. In this particular case, I'd expect Comcast to fight tooth and nail, every teensy step of the way, using every tool in their box, most especially including the courts, to prevent the city from replacing their crappy coax with fiber for the last mile.
Actively trying to make batteries non-replaceable is unacceptable. I'm not certain this is what is going on, however. If it is legitimately being done in order to improve the form-factor of the device, and as long as the battery is still replaceable by a technician with the proper tools, I don't have a problem with it. Making things end-user-accessible isn't always smart. Where do you draw the line? Screens crack all the time. Do we require phones to be made in such a way that an end-user can easily pop out a broken screen and replace it with a new one? No, of course not. But that doesn't mean it can't be repaired by a properly trained professional.
I was going to give a glib answer, but on further thought, I'm conflicted. I would argue that a broken screen is different from a nonfunctional battery, because screens that haven't been traumatized will last the expected life of the phone. It takes an accident to break one. This seems fundamentally different to me from the battery, which naturally wears out with use.
But a counter-argument might be that the number one most frequent thing broken on these things is the screen. So although I'd draw the line for a user-replaceable battery but not necessarily a user-replaceable screen, I do see your point.
And it would depend on what "properly trained professional" means. I own the special tools and have the skill to take, oh, an iphone apart to replace the screen, but I'm not a typical user. I guess I would say that it depends on what the professional's cost was. For instance, having to take a phone to the store to replace the battery would be fine if the total cost was not reasonably more than the cost of parts. But were it several times the cost of the battery, I'd question why I bought the device in the first place.
I want to live in a world where all electronic products are sold in bubble packs on hangers next to the cash register. You'd use them until they stop working, and then throw them away and buy a new one.
No, sorry, got that wrong, I *don't* want to live in that world.
I've never understood why this irony isn't more apparent to people -- that certain "boutique" electronics are every bit as consumable and non-repairable and throw-away as the cheap crap in plastic bubbles on the impulse buy rack. I was going to say "cheap foreign crap" but then I realized that a lot of it is made in the same place and perhaps the same factory as the "boutique" cra-- I mean products.
Personally, and for as long as I can hold out, I won't own a phone or laptop or tablet where I can't easily replace that top consumable, the number one part that wears out, the battery. This means I don't buy certain product lines at all. In other cases it means I can buy up to version X, but with X+1 they glued the thing closed, so it's no longer a consideration. (I mean, seriously -- would you buy a car where the hood was welded closed at the factory?) But I'm not the demographic they're selling to, as I tend to use a product until it stops working and I can't fix it, which breaks the 18 month latest-and-greatest product cycle that makes so much lovely money.
There will probably come a time when I can't find a damned phone anywhere that has a battery I can replace when it stops holding a charge. (To use just one example.) But until then, and for whatever effect it probably doesn't have, I will vote with wallet.
This goes for cars, too. And refrigerators. I'd rather own something a few years older that I can actually repair or get repaired.
I think it's Ghandi who said something like, what you do will make no difference. But it's very important that you do it.
But then they might have trouble glorifying Stephen with a download count.
You have a point. I suppose there's some bragging rights to saying "we put up this paper and it broke our site". I guess it comes down to what you're actually trying to accomplish.
""To put it mildly, this is a huge, huge problem," Wray said. "It impacts investigations across the board -- narcotics, human trafficking, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, gangs, organized crime, child exploitation, political coverups, wait, did I say that last part out loud?"
From TFA: "The tradeoff for enhanced hygiene and the slimmer profile is that scissor-switch keys are more difficult to separate from their base than rubber-domed ones, but it's not impossible."
Side note, a cat can do this very quickly. Like, five or six keys in less than a second. I've witnessed this personally. I even managed to get most of the keys back on.
Secondly, although he doesn't specifically say, I strongly suspect the root cause wasn't "a piece of dust". He describes the problem as one (1) press of the space bar (where do astronauts go for drinks? never mind) consistently causes two (2) spaces. I'm sorry, that's not mechanical, it's electrical. There's something wrong with the circuitry. Were it a mechanical problem, the symptoms would not be so precisely reproduceable.
As someone else mentioned, "it's dust" is just something the "geniuses" say to appease the unwashed masses. It should be taken with a... well it shouldn't be believed at all. These are Mac "geniuses" we're talking here.
And finally, if you buy an electronic device that's not meant to be repaired, don't be surprised when repairs are costly, or impossible. There's a lot to be said for (a) staying one or two generations behind the bleeding edge, and (b) buying your products with reliability and maintainability in mind. That is, if your objective is to get work done. If your objective is to own the thinnest laptop on earth, your mileage may vary.
Updates to two different accounts coming from the same IP? Or through the same ISP? I've noticed that Google Maps, for instance, tries to guess my physical location even through a corporate firewall. The problematic identity should probably show a different origin, but sex workers are probably unlikely to think of that.
I suspect that one part of Facebook's data mining is to find other users geographically close to you, and this is what tripped her up. A simple solution might be to have her alternate identity not use facebook or any social media widget (like instagram) that has a connection to facebook. (Suggestions for you: "Laura Goodbooty" is now on Instagram as nicebutt1039. Follow?" Oh geeze...) Of course, it's too late for that now. She may have to move out of the area.
So. Sex workers on Facebook. That would explain the occasional friend request I get from accounts that only contain three or four pictures of a 20-ish girl in yoga pants and handbra. And here I just assumed it was the NSA.
I said, oh, 3 or 5 years ago, or maybe it was 10?...that an obvious vector was the antivirus product itself. Because trust has to start somewhere, and people tend to trust their antivirus software, because otherwise, what do you do? Throw out your computer and go back to books? (Now that I write that, it doesn't sound like a half bad idea.)
And this was even before the useless nagware McAfee Security Scan started being bundled in everything to hell and gone.
So, in a way, I'm glad this happened, because it might cause people (well, some people... well, a few people) to look a little more critically at their antivirus software.
So everyone should convert to Windows Defender. Just kidding.
I think it might depend on the area. Last time I ran the TV through "setup" it picked up 17 channels OTA. Of course, most are crap, but besides the networks there are a few specialist channels (the oldies channel, horror channel scifi channel (which is not the syfy channel)) which you'd think would be cable channels but are available OTA. We don't have cable at all, haven't for years. If we can't get it OTA, we largely do without. (Caveat: I don't watch much TV, so YMMV. And wife does have Hulu on her Kindle, which is admittedly a cable-style paid network.) We currently only have two connections to the outside world -- a big "farmhouse style" antenna on the roof, and fiber internet to the house (internet only, no TV) and there's a blu-ray player attached to the TV. It works for us. (What works for me in particular is that my cost for TV after initial investment is basically zero. Previously it was something like $160 a month.)
Personally, I don't think those transmitters will go away in the immediate future. They may get repurposed somehow.
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Bury the cables? That's so obvious there must be a reason they're not doing it. Musn't there?
AT&T is second in evilness only to oil companies. They are scum through and through. Patent trolls only wish they could be as shit to people as AT&T.
Um um um... not to argue, but I'd put Comcast a little ahead of AT&T. Otherwise, sure.
Pledging is not the same as doing. Other cities have tried to do this and failed.
Actively trying to make batteries non-replaceable is unacceptable. I'm not certain this is what is going on, however. If it is legitimately being done in order to improve the form-factor of the device, and as long as the battery is still replaceable by a technician with the proper tools, I don't have a problem with it. Making things end-user-accessible isn't always smart. Where do you draw the line? Screens crack all the time. Do we require phones to be made in such a way that an end-user can easily pop out a broken screen and replace it with a new one? No, of course not. But that doesn't mean it can't be repaired by a properly trained professional.
I was going to give a glib answer, but on further thought, I'm conflicted. I would argue that a broken screen is different from a nonfunctional battery, because screens that haven't been traumatized will last the expected life of the phone. It takes an accident to break one. This seems fundamentally different to me from the battery, which naturally wears out with use.
But a counter-argument might be that the number one most frequent thing broken on these things is the screen. So although I'd draw the line for a user-replaceable battery but not necessarily a user-replaceable screen, I do see your point.
And it would depend on what "properly trained professional" means. I own the special tools and have the skill to take, oh, an iphone apart to replace the screen, but I'm not a typical user. I guess I would say that it depends on what the professional's cost was. For instance, having to take a phone to the store to replace the battery would be fine if the total cost was not reasonably more than the cost of parts. But were it several times the cost of the battery, I'd question why I bought the device in the first place.
I want to live in a world where all electronic products are sold in bubble packs on hangers next to the cash register. You'd use them until they stop working, and then throw them away and buy a new one.
No, sorry, got that wrong, I *don't* want to live in that world.
I've never understood why this irony isn't more apparent to people -- that certain "boutique" electronics are every bit as consumable and non-repairable and throw-away as the cheap crap in plastic bubbles on the impulse buy rack. I was going to say "cheap foreign crap" but then I realized that a lot of it is made in the same place and perhaps the same factory as the "boutique" cra-- I mean products.
Personally, and for as long as I can hold out, I won't own a phone or laptop or tablet where I can't easily replace that top consumable, the number one part that wears out, the battery. This means I don't buy certain product lines at all. In other cases it means I can buy up to version X, but with X+1 they glued the thing closed, so it's no longer a consideration. (I mean, seriously -- would you buy a car where the hood was welded closed at the factory?) But I'm not the demographic they're selling to, as I tend to use a product until it stops working and I can't fix it, which breaks the 18 month latest-and-greatest product cycle that makes so much lovely money.
There will probably come a time when I can't find a damned phone anywhere that has a battery I can replace when it stops holding a charge. (To use just one example.) But until then, and for whatever effect it probably doesn't have, I will vote with wallet.
This goes for cars, too. And refrigerators. I'd rather own something a few years older that I can actually repair or get repaired.
I think it's Ghandi who said something like, what you do will make no difference. But it's very important that you do it.
At a bare minimum, known consumables like batteries should be user replaceable.
But then they might have trouble glorifying Stephen with a download count.
You have a point. I suppose there's some bragging rights to saying "we put up this paper and it broke our site". I guess it comes down to what you're actually trying to accomplish.
I give way more credence to the idea that AI wasn't involved at all, as there is very little intelligence shown :-P
But a mere human would have proofread his or her work before posting to a gazillion readers?
Surely?
Sounds like this might have been a good application for bittorrent. Have only magnet links on the campus website.
It's one of those AI generated Slashdot titles, I'm betting.
""To put it mildly, this is a huge, huge problem," Wray said. "It impacts investigations across the board -- narcotics, human trafficking, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, gangs, organized crime, child exploitation, political coverups, wait, did I say that last part out loud?"
"offline" being the operative word here. Backing up to a spare disk or an NFS mount still puts you at risk.
Or that.
Firstly
From TFA: "The tradeoff for enhanced hygiene and the slimmer profile is that scissor-switch keys are more difficult to separate from their base than rubber-domed ones, but it's not impossible."
Side note, a cat can do this very quickly. Like, five or six keys in less than a second. I've witnessed this personally. I even managed to get most of the keys back on.
Secondly, although he doesn't specifically say, I strongly suspect the root cause wasn't "a piece of dust". He describes the problem as one (1) press of the space bar (where do astronauts go for drinks? never mind) consistently causes two (2) spaces. I'm sorry, that's not mechanical, it's electrical. There's something wrong with the circuitry. Were it a mechanical problem, the symptoms would not be so precisely reproduceable.
As someone else mentioned, "it's dust" is just something the "geniuses" say to appease the unwashed masses. It should be taken with a ... well it shouldn't be believed at all. These are Mac "geniuses" we're talking here.
And finally, if you buy an electronic device that's not meant to be repaired, don't be surprised when repairs are costly, or impossible. There's a lot to be said for (a) staying one or two generations behind the bleeding edge, and (b) buying your products with reliability and maintainability in mind. That is, if your objective is to get work done. If your objective is to own the thinnest laptop on earth, your mileage may vary.
"researcher salary is fixed completely independently of grant money obtained."
True. But they get to have a job, and they get to have their names on stuff.
Keep in mind that this only means that China is in first place, not that this is the only place this is happening.
They didn't immediately turn off his access??
Updates to two different accounts coming from the same IP? Or through the same ISP? I've noticed that Google Maps, for instance, tries to guess my physical location even through a corporate firewall. The problematic identity should probably show a different origin, but sex workers are probably unlikely to think of that.
I suspect that one part of Facebook's data mining is to find other users geographically close to you, and this is what tripped her up. A simple solution might be to have her alternate identity not use facebook or any social media widget (like instagram) that has a connection to facebook. (Suggestions for you: "Laura Goodbooty" is now on Instagram as nicebutt1039. Follow?" Oh geeze...) Of course, it's too late for that now. She may have to move out of the area.
So. Sex workers on Facebook. That would explain the occasional friend request I get from accounts that only contain three or four pictures of a 20-ish girl in yoga pants and handbra. And here I just assumed it was the NSA.
Which just goes to show, being paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't really out to get you.
Right, because if someone is spying on me, I want it to be 'muricans, dammit!
Shocked, I tell you.
I said, oh, 3 or 5 years ago, or maybe it was 10? ...that an obvious vector was the antivirus product itself. Because trust has to start somewhere, and people tend to trust their antivirus software, because otherwise, what do you do? Throw out your computer and go back to books? (Now that I write that, it doesn't sound like a half bad idea.)
And this was even before the useless nagware McAfee Security Scan started being bundled in everything to hell and gone.
So, in a way, I'm glad this happened, because it might cause people (well, some people... well, a few people) to look a little more critically at their antivirus software.
So everyone should convert to Windows Defender. Just kidding.
This is the 23rd century. Everyone knows that systemd was replaced by superinit decades ago.
I think it might depend on the area. Last time I ran the TV through "setup" it picked up 17 channels OTA. Of course, most are crap, but besides the networks there are a few specialist channels (the oldies channel, horror channel scifi channel (which is not the syfy channel)) which you'd think would be cable channels but are available OTA. We don't have cable at all, haven't for years. If we can't get it OTA, we largely do without. (Caveat: I don't watch much TV, so YMMV. And wife does have Hulu on her Kindle, which is admittedly a cable-style paid network.) We currently only have two connections to the outside world -- a big "farmhouse style" antenna on the roof, and fiber internet to the house (internet only, no TV) and there's a blu-ray player attached to the TV. It works for us. (What works for me in particular is that my cost for TV after initial investment is basically zero. Previously it was something like $160 a month.)
Personally, I don't think those transmitters will go away in the immediate future. They may get repurposed somehow.
Maybe the Enterprise was successful when so many other ships were blown to hell because Scotty was an Ubuntu fan.