The last Windows 10 update removed built-in support for nVidia GT 420 cards, amongst other things. I had to download and install drivers from nVidia to get native resolution (and correct orientation) back. Also... when the fuck did graphics drivers grow to nearly 500 megabytes???
There are still actually people outside of a computer museum who uses CDs and DVDs?
Yes, some of us actually like to own our property and not just lease it from companies that could disappear at a moment's notice. They'll pry my CDs and DVDs from my cold, dead hands!
Probably 80% of the time that Windows Explorer pops some kind of confirmation dialog (e.g.: move/delete files) the confirmation dialog pops up *behind* the Explorer window you're currently using. I'd never experienced this particular issue until Windows 10.
Either this is the weakest commercial radio station in the world, or the "hacker" has access to a massive amplifier and antenna, or he's just overriding the station's frequency in a very small area. My money is on the last of those, and also that this story is of negligible significance.
I agree, it's likely the last. Before Bluetooth head units became common in cars people used to have FM transmitters plugged into their iDevices to play music/podcasts through their car speakers. It wasn't uncommon to have your preferred radio station overridden by someone's transmitter set to a commercial frequency as they passed you in traffic.
Microsoft has questions about using Calibri in Word 12 back in 2005, https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c..., so clearly it was generally available before 2006.
Yeah, but it's a waste of money putting cards of that calibre on Linux. When running on Linux their frame rates are about 60-70% of what you'd get on Windows, so says Phoronix.
I agree, there's nothing cell-phoney about this thing. To be fair TFA just took UW's bait hook, line and sinker: a photo of the device clearly shows the silk screened words, "UW Battery-free Cellphone."
If you are sharing top secret or confidential military info , you should be encrypting every email you send via your email client, regardless if the servers transmit it in clear text or not.
^ This.
Nobody should rely on STARTTLS actually working anywhere, any time, especially in countries like Australia where ISPs are legally required to MITM all SMTP connections on behalf of the United States "intelligence" services. ISP do this with proxy appliances that remove the STARTTLS capability from the origin server's greeting and also return "500 Syntax error, command unrecognized" to any STARTTLS requests from clients so that they can continue to capture outbound messages in clear text.
Usually the quickest way to detect such things is to turn on "Enforce secure connections" in your mail client's SMTP settings, and hope that it honours it. They'll usually reveal themselves when you telnet to mail.google.com:25 (or the like) by including a bunch of asterisks in the origin server's greeting line, "220 ********** service ready."
Full-size manned and unmanned aircraft are required to have ADS-B transmitters. These drones already have the required GPS receivers so it seems to me like this would be an ideal time to push for miniturization of the technology to use on drones.
Bonus: ADS-B will make drones visible to all other aircraft in the vicinity.
The new Google News layout is woeful. That said, I wouldn't have a clue how it used to look because I've never used Google News.
I saw something similar to its current look on YouTube last night when my browser cookies expired. Thankfully the old look was restored when I logged in.
The desktop web is being reduced to the lowest common denominator experience - fit only for mobiles and tablets.
Since you mentioned defenses that can be removed by malware... I certainly hope Microsoft put UAC in front of this new control panel item. If it's anything like the other 99% of security settings they have then unprivileged malware will simply deactivate it with the logged-in user's privileges and then continue on its merry way.
I can't see this being useful against ransomware. Remember that ransomware already uses privilege escalation so that it can encrypt everything on the computer, including operating system folders. In other words it's already bypassed the system that Microsoft's implementing.
The iPhone is the best selling product ever, making Apple perhaps the best business ever.
Geez reporters are full of shit. I think bread and prostitution have outsold iPhones by many orders of magnitude. It's just a device, people. Get over it.
I'm guessing that the system assumes that any object in it's path is on the ground.
That's not how these systems work.
I think you'll find it is. They're not using stereoscopic camera systems so they can't directly measure the distance of an object in view.
In steroscopic systems a Difference Map allows you to estimate the distance by, in conjunction with the optic parameters, measuring the number of pixels offset between the left and right image any given object is.
In monoscopic camera systems, such as what Volvo's using, regardless of Neural Network magic, you can only estimate an object's distance by its vertical position in the image based on some calculated (or calibrated) horizon line setting "infinite" and working back from there. The further up from the bottom it is the further away it must be and vice-versa. As David_Hart said, these kinds of systems are brain dead and cannot reliably measure the distance of any objects suspended above the ground.
I defy anyone to point out a television show produced by Channel Ten (originally Channel Zero, btw) that anyone would go to the trouble of pirating.
You are the first person ever to call it "Channel Zero." If you lived in Australia then you'd know it was called "Channel Oh", then "TV Oh" before becomming "Channel Ten". https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I know people around here have reading problems, so from TFA...
But despite the company's efforts to argue that the surveillance order was unlawful, the company was later forced to comply by the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] court.
We've learned, but millennials and other up-and-comings clearly haven't. Watching the nightly news gives you plenty of samplings of the stupid stuff they post to Facebook and such. We're not Google's target audience.
Since this would only be acceptable with encryption on the client side they couldn't even deduplicate.
Why not? An encrypted blob of data looks pretty much like an unencrypted blob of data, the deduplication service shouldn't need to know one from the other.
So how's this news? It's like somebody trying to protect a patent for a rectangular handheld computing device with rounded corners.... Well Duh? How's that innovative or new?
Something that is news is that you can capture the IMEI of the remote devices that you're calling, without even completing a call. That's something that shouldn't be leaking out of a carrier's network. An attacker could bulk dial many numbers on a network to gather their IMEIs which, since they know what number they called to get each IMEI, could be sold together for nefarious purposes.
Sony had their premier line of equipment that they sold from specialty stores or mom and pop shops that dealt in quality, not quantity. They were sold next to SHARP, Toshiba, LG and Samsung.
Samsung associated with quality? Guffaw. Sure, they make shiny black boxes, but the quality of their implementations are very low.
Samsung PVRs, for example, throw "Invalid format" errors all over the place when trying to play streams over DLNA but then you put those same streams onto a USB hard disk or key and it'll play them quite happily. Even when it does play streams over DLNA it doesn't pay attention to aspect ratio and always shows them at 16:9. Play the same streams from a USB hard disk or key and it will magically display them in the correct aspect ratio. Kind of defeats the purpose of supporting DLNA when its not even good enough to be called half-assed.
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That's hardly new. Even Linus killed '386 processor support for Linux back in 2012 with the comment, "I'm not sentimental. Good riddance."
REF: https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
The last Windows 10 update removed built-in support for nVidia GT 420 cards, amongst other things. I had to download and install drivers from nVidia to get native resolution (and correct orientation) back. Also... when the fuck did graphics drivers grow to nearly 500 megabytes???
There are still actually people outside of a computer museum who uses CDs and DVDs?
Yes, some of us actually like to own our property and not just lease it from companies that could disappear at a moment's notice. They'll pry my CDs and DVDs from my cold, dead hands!
Probably 80% of the time that Windows Explorer pops some kind of confirmation dialog (e.g.: move/delete files) the confirmation dialog pops up *behind* the Explorer window you're currently using. I'd never experienced this particular issue until Windows 10.
Either this is the weakest commercial radio station in the world, or the "hacker" has access to a massive amplifier and antenna, or he's just overriding the station's frequency in a very small area. My money is on the last of those, and also that this story is of negligible significance.
I agree, it's likely the last. Before Bluetooth head units became common in cars people used to have FM transmitters plugged into their iDevices to play music/podcasts through their car speakers. It wasn't uncommon to have your preferred radio station overridden by someone's transmitter set to a commercial frequency as they passed you in traffic.
Microsoft has questions about using Calibri in Word 12 back in 2005, https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c..., so clearly it was generally available before 2006.
Yeah, but it's a waste of money putting cards of that calibre on Linux. When running on Linux their frame rates are about 60-70% of what you'd get on Windows, so says Phoronix.
I agree, there's nothing cell-phoney about this thing. To be fair TFA just took UW's bait hook, line and sinker: a photo of the device clearly shows the silk screened words, "UW Battery-free Cellphone."
^ This.
Nobody should rely on STARTTLS actually working anywhere, any time, especially in countries like Australia where ISPs are legally required to MITM all SMTP connections on behalf of the United States "intelligence" services. ISP do this with proxy appliances that remove the STARTTLS capability from the origin server's greeting and also return "500 Syntax error, command unrecognized" to any STARTTLS requests from clients so that they can continue to capture outbound messages in clear text.
Usually the quickest way to detect such things is to turn on "Enforce secure connections" in your mail client's SMTP settings, and hope that it honours it. They'll usually reveal themselves when you telnet to mail.google.com:25 (or the like) by including a bunch of asterisks in the origin server's greeting line, "220 ********** service ready."
Then why is it repeated on CNN's page? http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07...
Full-size manned and unmanned aircraft are required to have ADS-B transmitters. These drones already have the required GPS receivers so it seems to me like this would be an ideal time to push for miniturization of the technology to use on drones.
Bonus: ADS-B will make drones visible to all other aircraft in the vicinity.
You know... That layout looks an awful lot like the layout for this site.
Wouldn't know. I've been restyling /. with my own UserContent.css file.
The new Google News layout is woeful. That said, I wouldn't have a clue how it used to look because I've never used Google News.
I saw something similar to its current look on YouTube last night when my browser cookies expired. Thankfully the old look was restored when I logged in.
The desktop web is being reduced to the lowest common denominator experience - fit only for mobiles and tablets.
Since you mentioned defenses that can be removed by malware... I certainly hope Microsoft put UAC in front of this new control panel item. If it's anything like the other 99% of security settings they have then unprivileged malware will simply deactivate it with the logged-in user's privileges and then continue on its merry way.
I can't see this being useful against ransomware. Remember that ransomware already uses privilege escalation so that it can encrypt everything on the computer, including operating system folders. In other words it's already bypassed the system that Microsoft's implementing.
Geez reporters are full of shit. I think bread and prostitution have outsold iPhones by many orders of magnitude. It's just a device, people. Get over it.
I'm guessing that the system assumes that any object in it's path is on the ground.
That's not how these systems work.
I think you'll find it is. They're not using stereoscopic camera systems so they can't directly measure the distance of an object in view.
In steroscopic systems a Difference Map allows you to estimate the distance by, in conjunction with the optic parameters, measuring the number of pixels offset between the left and right image any given object is.
In monoscopic camera systems, such as what Volvo's using, regardless of Neural Network magic, you can only estimate an object's distance by its vertical position in the image based on some calculated (or calibrated) horizon line setting "infinite" and working back from there. The further up from the bottom it is the further away it must be and vice-versa. As David_Hart said, these kinds of systems are brain dead and cannot reliably measure the distance of any objects suspended above the ground.
Colour me pessimistic, but it costs the State a whole lot of money to catch, try and jail rapists. Why would they do that?
I defy anyone to point out a television show produced by Channel Ten (originally Channel Zero, btw) that anyone would go to the trouble of pirating.
You are the first person ever to call it "Channel Zero." If you lived in Australia then you'd know it was called "Channel Oh", then "TV Oh" before becomming "Channel Ten". https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We've learned, but millennials and other up-and-comings clearly haven't. Watching the nightly news gives you plenty of samplings of the stupid stuff they post to Facebook and such. We're not Google's target audience.
RAID is not a backup.
Since this would only be acceptable with encryption on the client side they couldn't even deduplicate.
Why not? An encrypted blob of data looks pretty much like an unencrypted blob of data, the deduplication service shouldn't need to know one from the other.
So how's this news? It's like somebody trying to protect a patent for a rectangular handheld computing device with rounded corners.... Well Duh? How's that innovative or new?
Something that is news is that you can capture the IMEI of the remote devices that you're calling, without even completing a call. That's something that shouldn't be leaking out of a carrier's network. An attacker could bulk dial many numbers on a network to gather their IMEIs which, since they know what number they called to get each IMEI, could be sold together for nefarious purposes.
Sony had their premier line of equipment that they sold from specialty stores or mom and pop shops that dealt in quality, not quantity. They were sold next to SHARP, Toshiba, LG and Samsung.
Samsung associated with quality? Guffaw. Sure, they make shiny black boxes, but the quality of their implementations are very low.
Samsung PVRs, for example, throw "Invalid format" errors all over the place when trying to play streams over DLNA but then you put those same streams onto a USB hard disk or key and it'll play them quite happily. Even when it does play streams over DLNA it doesn't pay attention to aspect ratio and always shows them at 16:9. Play the same streams from a USB hard disk or key and it will magically display them in the correct aspect ratio. Kind of defeats the purpose of supporting DLNA when its not even good enough to be called half-assed.