Releasing software allowing the editing of spoken words in audio recordings is probably the best way to ensure people know this capability exists. Everyone knows about Photoshop and the kinds of things it makes possible so that the old phrase "the camera never lies" is known to be obsolete. If audio speech editing capabilities were somehow kept from the public the potential for abuse would be much greater.
It's bad math for dumb people. Profits are positive, by definition.
Sorry if you find the maths and financial concepts too hard, but it actually makes way more sense to calculate the percentages this way. Otherwise you're excluding the market impact of all the companies who make a loss. How can you sensibly compare figures from quarter to quarter and from year to year if you're excluding a different set of companies each time depending on who makes a loss? There's a boundary between simplifying concepts so that more people can understand them and oversimplifying to the point of being wrong; you've crossed it. If anyone is trotting out "bad math for dumb people," it's you.
I'm guessing that Apple devices are used longer than Android on average. Are there any figures on the percentages of iOS and Android handsets still regularly in use? I've seen web browsing numbers but many people don't browse the web much on their smart phones.
I'm pretty sure that any attempt by EA to send money to embargoed countries is going to be seen as illegal and is even more likely to attract the attention of the authorities than processing the original purchases. For one thing, they won't be able to claim ignorance; any refund attempt would be clearly corporate-sanctioned embargo breaking. If you must blame someone, let it be the US Government; their law punishing presumably innocent citizens of selected countries is the root cause of this injustice. EA's only contribution has been some incompetence from which they are unable to recover.
Uhm... it says right in the part you quoted which part of the law it violates.
Just because the article says it violates the law doesn't make it so.
They have these other things, called statutes or "laws," that are in addition to the Constitution.
And they have still other things called courts who get to interpret both the laws and the constitution. There's no mention that courts have ruled on this situation yet.
The key thing I note is that both laws require the ad to indicate a preference. When you place the ad with Facebook you can indicate a preference for who the ad is targeted towards but that's not the same as the ad itself indicating a preference. Could be an interesting case though IANAL.
you're taking alliteracy to a new level
When accusing someone of being illiterate it's always good to know how to spell the word. No, it wasn't a typo on your part: the "a" is about as far as you can get from the "i" on the keyboard.
It wouldn't be exactly simple but it would be possible. The main issue would be that GPS transmitters near the Kremlin that were installed by anyone other than the Russian authorities would be very quickly noticed by them and would be relatively easily located. Since the anomalies appear to have been present for a long period of time it's a pretty safe bet that they're being caused by the Russian authorities.
GPS coverage can't be disabled or modified by the GPS satellites selectively over such a small area as the Kremlin. The satellites are essentially just sending the time and their location continuously and their antennas aren't very directional. Anything they did that affected accuracy at the Kremlin would have to affect a wide surrounding area as well. Any localised effect as described has to be local jamming which almost certainly means official Russian involvement.
What if all trades were batched up and handled on something like one-second boundaries, i.e., kill off high-frequency trading? What would be lost? As far as I can tell, almost all of its effect so far has been to advantage the high end traders who have the resources to compete. There would also seem to be substantial risks of instability. Since the traders are free to use any algorithm they like there's no way to guarantee the stability of the whole system.
Greenland wasn't independent at the time; it was a possession of Denmark
Greenland remains a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, albeit with substantial autonomy. Foreign affairs and security remain the responsibility of the Danish government. The situation hasn't changed drastically since 1397.
Oh wait you also don't know how simple autopilot is in real life and apply your own pre-conception to the term?
Aircraft autopilots are designed to allow pilots to take their hands off the controls. The Tesla "Autopilot" isn't. Game over. The Wikipedia article on Autopilots opens with the sentence "An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required."
So this is basically saying that we can no longer depend on the OS to protect us against privilege escalation attacks. The bad guys will have to concentrate on breaking out of VMs or, at least in this case, attacking through the access that the Edge VM has to system resources.
Nobody seems to be telling, which I think means there are way more 2K projectors out there than the industry would like you to know about. According to Wikipedia, all DLP projectors were 2K until early 2012 when 4K became available, and 2K projectors are still available. This graph of digital adoption in cinemas shows that almost half of the projectors were installed by the end of 2011 and so must have been only 2K (apart from Sony SXRD units). Maybe some have upgraded to 4K since then, but you can bet there are plenty of 2K venues out there today. I'd say that 99% of people are never going to notice the difference. As for those that say a 35mm print can beat 4K, yes that's true in the same way that vinyl can beat a CD.
Once you start acting like a monopoly, or at least the major stake holder for a necessary position for society, you stop being allowed to have authoritarian control, and need to be more civically minded.
"Need to" and "legally required to" are two different things, or is there some law you're aware of enforcing this principle? Any jurisdiction will do.
They're saying the DDOS took down the geoblocking service. This would appear to be the "hardware failure" that is being blamed but it seems more likely that the geoblocking service couldn't handle the load.
Because you'd be able to see that wildcard cert in the chain.
I don't think they are talking about issuing a certificate for *.com. What they are talking about is issuing a subordinate certificate authority that is signed by their root CA that is already trusted by modern browsers. That would mean that whoever has that certificate could do man-in-the-middle SSL decryption without people knowing it.
The details don't really matter that much. Eventually someone is going to notice that an inappropriate certificate chain is in use. You can't hide a step in the chain of signing. Once it's noticed it will be quite easy to work out the breadth of the betrayal of trust and the pressure to remove the top level cert from the default trusted list will be great.
You're aware that the census is legally mandated in the Constitution, right?
Of all the unjustified responses that will compel me to slap someone upside the head repeatedly, "Because we've always done it this way" comes out on top every time.
The most powerful single-word question in the known universe is Why, which my example exemplifies.
There's a world of difference between "we've always done it this way" and "is legally mandated in the Constitution".
It looks like you guys can amend your constitution. Why not throw in a Bill of Rights?
It's too late now. Those in power can see how much trouble the US Bill of Rights causes for the US government. Why would they willingly give power back to the people? We have had various rights legislated but that's essentially worthless since the government is free to override it with subsequent legislation, e.g., the "Northern Territory National Emergency Response" was explicitly exempt from our "Racial Discrimination Act".
What makes you think verisign or one of the other CAs havent given them a universal wild card to do just that?
We're talking HTTPS here right? Because you'd be able to see that wildcard cert in the chain. It would only take one person to notice it and blow the whistle for Verisign to have some very tough explaining to do to avoid being booted from browsers' default trusted list.
No, this is not what digital movie projectors use. Those are almost all 2K or 4K, and I suspect that 2K is the more common size. Yes, I'm talking about commercial cinemas here, not home theatre. 8K is just over the top in almost any environment.
Samsung's project has nothing to do with health-related applications
What we really need is contact lenses or glasses that actively focus with the eye to restore range of focus for older people. Range of focus is an accurate indicator of how old you are, i.e., old people might be able to see up close or see the distance, but they can't do both. Glasses that could detect how the eye is focussing (probably with infra-red sensors) and then adapt to help would be a major advance.
Samsung say "10nm-class denotes a process technology node somewhere between 10 and 19 nanometers, while 20nm-class means a process technology node somewhere between 20 and 29 nanometers." They are carefully not saying exactly what scale technology is actually being used for this product and it could easily be 14nm or more.
So you're complaining that the colour saturation is too great? Really? This is a major feature of AMOLED displays. You should be able to turn the saturation down in software. If you're looking at TVs in a retailer, of course the saturation, contrast and brightness will all be set off the charts so the sets stand out from the competition. Almost always they have a much more natural picture mode you can choose via the setup menu to see realistic results.
It just says it's for "kids" with no definition about appropriate age ranges or its censorship standards that I could find. Depending on how you define "kids," some of them could easily be sexually aware. If they only intend it for use by the very young then removing all references to sexuality would seem uncontroversial but it would be better for Kiddle to give clearer guidelines about this.
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Releasing software allowing the editing of spoken words in audio recordings is probably the best way to ensure people know this capability exists. Everyone knows about Photoshop and the kinds of things it makes possible so that the old phrase "the camera never lies" is known to be obsolete. If audio speech editing capabilities were somehow kept from the public the potential for abuse would be much greater.
It's bad math for dumb people. Profits are positive, by definition.
Sorry if you find the maths and financial concepts too hard, but it actually makes way more sense to calculate the percentages this way. Otherwise you're excluding the market impact of all the companies who make a loss. How can you sensibly compare figures from quarter to quarter and from year to year if you're excluding a different set of companies each time depending on who makes a loss? There's a boundary between simplifying concepts so that more people can understand them and oversimplifying to the point of being wrong; you've crossed it. If anyone is trotting out "bad math for dumb people," it's you.
I'm guessing that Apple devices are used longer than Android on average. Are there any figures on the percentages of iOS and Android handsets still regularly in use? I've seen web browsing numbers but many people don't browse the web much on their smart phones.
I'm pretty sure that any attempt by EA to send money to embargoed countries is going to be seen as illegal and is even more likely to attract the attention of the authorities than processing the original purchases. For one thing, they won't be able to claim ignorance; any refund attempt would be clearly corporate-sanctioned embargo breaking. If you must blame someone, let it be the US Government; their law punishing presumably innocent citizens of selected countries is the root cause of this injustice. EA's only contribution has been some incompetence from which they are unable to recover.
Uhm... it says right in the part you quoted which part of the law it violates.
Just because the article says it violates the law doesn't make it so.
They have these other things, called statutes or "laws," that are in addition to the Constitution.
And they have still other things called courts who get to interpret both the laws and the constitution. There's no mention that courts have ruled on this situation yet.
The key thing I note is that both laws require the ad to indicate a preference. When you place the ad with Facebook you can indicate a preference for who the ad is targeted towards but that's not the same as the ad itself indicating a preference. Could be an interesting case though IANAL.
you're taking alliteracy to a new level
When accusing someone of being illiterate it's always good to know how to spell the word. No, it wasn't a typo on your part: the "a" is about as far as you can get from the "i" on the keyboard.
It wouldn't be exactly simple but it would be possible. The main issue would be that GPS transmitters near the Kremlin that were installed by anyone other than the Russian authorities would be very quickly noticed by them and would be relatively easily located. Since the anomalies appear to have been present for a long period of time it's a pretty safe bet that they're being caused by the Russian authorities.
GPS coverage can't be disabled or modified by the GPS satellites selectively over such a small area as the Kremlin. The satellites are essentially just sending the time and their location continuously and their antennas aren't very directional. Anything they did that affected accuracy at the Kremlin would have to affect a wide surrounding area as well. Any localised effect as described has to be local jamming which almost certainly means official Russian involvement.
He used their millisecond advantage against them.
What if all trades were batched up and handled on something like one-second boundaries, i.e., kill off high-frequency trading? What would be lost? As far as I can tell, almost all of its effect so far has been to advantage the high end traders who have the resources to compete. There would also seem to be substantial risks of instability. Since the traders are free to use any algorithm they like there's no way to guarantee the stability of the whole system.
Greenland wasn't independent at the time; it was a possession of Denmark
Greenland remains a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, albeit with substantial autonomy. Foreign affairs and security remain the responsibility of the Danish government. The situation hasn't changed drastically since 1397.
Oh wait you also don't know how simple autopilot is in real life and apply your own pre-conception to the term?
Aircraft autopilots are designed to allow pilots to take their hands off the controls. The Tesla "Autopilot" isn't. Game over. The Wikipedia article on Autopilots opens with the sentence "An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required."
So this is basically saying that we can no longer depend on the OS to protect us against privilege escalation attacks. The bad guys will have to concentrate on breaking out of VMs or, at least in this case, attacking through the access that the Edge VM has to system resources.
Nobody seems to be telling, which I think means there are way more 2K projectors out there than the industry would like you to know about. According to Wikipedia, all DLP projectors were 2K until early 2012 when 4K became available, and 2K projectors are still available. This graph of digital adoption in cinemas shows that almost half of the projectors were installed by the end of 2011 and so must have been only 2K (apart from Sony SXRD units). Maybe some have upgraded to 4K since then, but you can bet there are plenty of 2K venues out there today. I'd say that 99% of people are never going to notice the difference. As for those that say a 35mm print can beat 4K, yes that's true in the same way that vinyl can beat a CD.
As I understand this. 4K is what you get at many small theaters which use digital projection these days
As I understand it, most digital cinema projectors are only 2K, i.e., essentially the same as "Full HD".
Once you start acting like a monopoly, or at least the major stake holder for a necessary position for society, you stop being allowed to have authoritarian control, and need to be more civically minded.
"Need to" and "legally required to" are two different things, or is there some law you're aware of enforcing this principle? Any jurisdiction will do.
Just because she's the daughter of a Democrat doesn't mean she's a Democrat. Does anyone know which party Mylan supports?
They're saying the DDOS took down the geoblocking service. This would appear to be the "hardware failure" that is being blamed but it seems more likely that the geoblocking service couldn't handle the load.
Because you'd be able to see that wildcard cert in the chain.
I don't think they are talking about issuing a certificate for *.com. What they are talking about is issuing a subordinate certificate authority that is signed by their root CA that is already trusted by modern browsers. That would mean that whoever has that certificate could do man-in-the-middle SSL decryption without people knowing it.
The details don't really matter that much. Eventually someone is going to notice that an inappropriate certificate chain is in use. You can't hide a step in the chain of signing. Once it's noticed it will be quite easy to work out the breadth of the betrayal of trust and the pressure to remove the top level cert from the default trusted list will be great.
You're aware that the census is legally mandated in the Constitution, right?
Of all the unjustified responses that will compel me to slap someone upside the head repeatedly, "Because we've always done it this way" comes out on top every time.
The most powerful single-word question in the known universe is Why, which my example exemplifies.
There's a world of difference between "we've always done it this way" and "is legally mandated in the Constitution".
It looks like you guys can amend your constitution. Why not throw in a Bill of Rights?
It's too late now. Those in power can see how much trouble the US Bill of Rights causes for the US government. Why would they willingly give power back to the people? We have had various rights legislated but that's essentially worthless since the government is free to override it with subsequent legislation, e.g., the "Northern Territory National Emergency Response" was explicitly exempt from our "Racial Discrimination Act".
What makes you think verisign or one of the other CAs havent given them a universal wild card to do just that?
We're talking HTTPS here right? Because you'd be able to see that wildcard cert in the chain. It would only take one person to notice it and blow the whistle for Verisign to have some very tough explaining to do to avoid being booted from browsers' default trusted list.
No, this is not what digital movie projectors use. Those are almost all 2K or 4K, and I suspect that 2K is the more common size. Yes, I'm talking about commercial cinemas here, not home theatre. 8K is just over the top in almost any environment.
Samsung's project has nothing to do with health-related applications
What we really need is contact lenses or glasses that actively focus with the eye to restore range of focus for older people. Range of focus is an accurate indicator of how old you are, i.e., old people might be able to see up close or see the distance, but they can't do both. Glasses that could detect how the eye is focussing (probably with infra-red sensors) and then adapt to help would be a major advance.
Samsung say "10nm-class denotes a process technology node somewhere between 10 and 19 nanometers, while 20nm-class means a process technology node somewhere between 20 and 29 nanometers." They are carefully not saying exactly what scale technology is actually being used for this product and it could easily be 14nm or more.
So you're complaining that the colour saturation is too great? Really? This is a major feature of AMOLED displays. You should be able to turn the saturation down in software. If you're looking at TVs in a retailer, of course the saturation, contrast and brightness will all be set off the charts so the sets stand out from the competition. Almost always they have a much more natural picture mode you can choose via the setup menu to see realistic results.
It just says it's for "kids" with no definition about appropriate age ranges or its censorship standards that I could find. Depending on how you define "kids," some of them could easily be sexually aware. If they only intend it for use by the very young then removing all references to sexuality would seem uncontroversial but it would be better for Kiddle to give clearer guidelines about this.