You know VLC for iOS will not decode AC3 -- unless you change you time zone location to somewhere outside the U.S.?
You know VLC for iOS will not even see most DLNA servers on the local network? And when it does, occasionally, list a UMS server it is unable to enumerate even its root folder contents?
It would have been nice to see VLC for iOS work as well as its desktop counterparts on Windows, Linux and OS X, but I doubt that will ever happen. More license sales lost to 8player and ArkMC I guess.
I'm sure the poster would have typed "TB". Remember how Slashdot's backward article system can't handle Unicode characters? Well, it also messes up the letter case of article titles, first lower casing them then upper casing the first letter of each word - which is why you also see "Mongodb" up there instead of "MongoDB".
I also agree that Mozilla should ditch Thunderbird, but only so that it can be taken over by people that actually care about it. It's been pretty much impossible getting Mozilla to fix Thunderbird issues.
Thunderbird's LDAP support is awful having a contact schema that's incompatible with just about every LDAP server out there. Thunderbird's WYSIWYG HTML mail composition is awful seeming to choose a random style when moving to the beginning/end of a line or the beginning/end of a message. If you used Home, End or an arrow key anywhere in your message you'll almost certainly get a different result in your Sent mail folder than what you had in the editor.
Apple Mail's HTML mail composition may be woefully lacking in features, but at least it's consistent.
Also not a big fan of Gmail's filters here. They have a nasty habit of just deciding to stop working some days leaving everything sitting in the Inbox, or often in Spam.
Don't know if you're aware but Lookout used to be a 3rd party search add-on for Outlook that made Outlook actually useful. I believe Microsoft bought it and integrated it into Outlook a few versions ago.
Yes, when you mistreat Li-Pos swelling and fire is the end result. I've seen it a few times. Can't speak for commercial gear but my e-planes and e-helis are quite well ventilated to keep the batteries cooled while in-flight. With the exception of my current-hungry hotliner (which typically pulls >150 amps on its 20 second climb outs) my batteries tend to be barely warm upon landing and when charging are cooled by a 100mm computer fan.
Especially if you need any range, most hobby aircraft can only fly about 15 minutes off a battery, and then require hours of charging.
Maybe in the Ni-Cd and Ni-MH days. Most e-planes, e-helis and quads these days run off Li-Poly or similar batteries and most fast charge in under an hour. They're so light you can just add more to extend the range, but you don't because (a) they're often not cheap enough and (b) most hobby pilots have had enough flying after 10-20 minutes and probably need to yield the flight line to other (impatient) hobby pilots as well.
Assuming Amazon goes down the Li-Poly route they're either intending to have twice as many drones than they want to keep in the air at any one time, or they'll be employing humans/robots to swap over battery packs when drones return to the depot.
It would be fairly inexpensive to place a unique delivery ID beacon on every home that wanted drone delivery, and a designated drop-off spot would be easy to program in.
Didn't watch the video, hey? Recipients placed a ~1x1-foot marker plate out on the lawn which the drone homed in on to land and release the package. Then they just picked up their package and the marker plate and headed back inside. I'm guessing that Amazon plans to mail these out to customers when they sign up to a premium delivery service.
The Palm Treo line, and I'm sure many others, had 2.5mm headphone/mic sockets and performed just fine.
That said... you're just not thinking like Apple. They've patented this connector and so can charge royalties to anyone wanting to sell headphones (or adaptors) in their ecosystem. And anyone manufacturing unlicensed connectors will get torpedoed by their lawyers.
As opposed to modern society: when the computers die knowledge goes with them.
I don't envy the jobs of future historians 1,000 years from now trying to recover what happened in our day. Even if physical media survives that long (which it won't), how will they discern the methods required to read the information back? It's hard enough trying to recover data from 30 year old floppy disks given that you can't buy 40 TPI magnetic heads any more and 80 TPI magnetic heads often won't read the fatter tracks.
I third this, but a QR code for the spine might be pushing your luck: it's a small area for a lot of novels and may be easily damaged/rubbed off. Just inside the front cover maybe, or on the title page.
People like me have been using content filtering proxy servers like Privoxy for a very long time. What makes you think we'll trust a web browser (especially an Apple browser) to do the job for us?
An engine cannot become clean without any hardware modification.
There should be a whole bunch of asterisks on that comment.
I get really annoyed at the mass media's reporting on this issue as a "defeat device", as if VW have added a physical piece of hardware to their engines to cheat the tests. It's the ECM software that's at issue, not some bogus defeat device. The ECM software has control over all sorts of things: air flow, fuel flow, fuel/air mix ratios, injection timings, dwell timings, etc.. Before fuel injection all this used to happen in hardware with stop screw adjustments, cam-valve clearances, etc.. If the engine is otherwise well designed then an ECM software update may be all that's needed to rectify the issues.
Firefox hacks mentions a 20 cookie per client connection limit. That appears to be true today.
It's not a limit, that was a recommendation from the original Netscape Cookie Specification. It's up to the individual browser implementors what limits they place on cookie size, cookies/domain, total cookie counts and even max cookie age. I have seen some web sites in the Top 1000 Alexa site list, for example, spu out over 60 Set-Cookie headers in response to a simple GET / HTTP/1.1 request - and that's just for the source page, not even any of the linked resources.
If you're still browsing mainly HTTP pages (not HTTPS) from a desktop-based computer I highly recommend getting hold of Privoxy and configuring it to eat the Set-Cookie headers for you. I'm sure there are other tools out there that achieve a similar result, but cookies are only a very small part of the identity tracking problem.
The root of the problem is that it checks a signature on the -executable-, not the -package-.
I think you've got that ass-about-face. Gatekeeper only checks the signatures on.app files - Apps or Applications as downloaded from the App Store and various web sites. The.app files are essentially.zip archives containing a bunch of executables, library files, media content, configuration data, etc. Every other executable on the system is not even checked by Gatekeeper which is why people are still able to use Homebrew and MacPorts to download, compile and execute *nix software.
The attack scenario allows a malicious.app file to be trusted which then turns around and downloads other executable content and is then able to run that because that other content is not checked by Gatekeeper.
To be fair to Microsoft (yeah I know, unusual for me), Skype was logging all conversations long before they got bought out my Microsoft. There have been many complaints over the years as people couldn't expunge their Skype chat history as the ability to do this disappeared and reappeared through various versions. This become an even more common issue with iOS (due to iCloud syncing), Android (Google Sync) and Windows Phone as well.
On the other hand it may make us unemployable as ordinary people nick our jobs...
Unlikely. We had to take art subjects all through primary school and again in high school years 8-10. How many of us became Michelangelos? It was an interesting way for us to explore our creativity and to better understand art when we look at it in the real world but comparatively few of us actually came out of it wanting become artists to make a living at it.
Given most modern cars have built in GPS receivers for the navigation software in their infotainment systems I doubt that detecting EPA tests on a dyno is hard: if (WheelVelocity > (GpsVelocity+10)) then Use(EpaMap) else Use(PowerMap).
The issue is that monopolies like taxis get so focused on profits or whatever, that they forget they only get income from customers. With no competition, why should I treat my customers well?
Don't know what it's like where you are, but here taxis are relatively expensive because of the annual Taxi License fees that the state government charges. I can understand the taxi services getting upset when Uber drivers come in offering the same service but avoiding the license fees. The way to solve the problem isn't trying to restrict Uber's operations with new laws and court battles, it's dispensing with the Taxi License fees to make it an open market.
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You know VLC for iOS will not decode AC3 -- unless you change you time zone location to somewhere outside the U.S.?
You know VLC for iOS will not even see most DLNA servers on the local network? And when it does, occasionally, list a UMS server it is unable to enumerate even its root folder contents? It would have been nice to see VLC for iOS work as well as its desktop counterparts on Windows, Linux and OS X, but I doubt that will ever happen. More license sales lost to 8player and ArkMC I guess.
I'm sure the poster would have typed "TB". Remember how Slashdot's backward article system can't handle Unicode characters? Well, it also messes up the letter case of article titles, first lower casing them then upper casing the first letter of each word - which is why you also see "Mongodb" up there instead of "MongoDB".
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Fuck your community experience, I just want to read the blog entry. Javascript required? No thanks.
I also agree that Mozilla should ditch Thunderbird, but only so that it can be taken over by people that actually care about it. It's been pretty much impossible getting Mozilla to fix Thunderbird issues.
Thunderbird's LDAP support is awful having a contact schema that's incompatible with just about every LDAP server out there. Thunderbird's WYSIWYG HTML mail composition is awful seeming to choose a random style when moving to the beginning/end of a line or the beginning/end of a message. If you used Home, End or an arrow key anywhere in your message you'll almost certainly get a different result in your Sent mail folder than what you had in the editor.
Apple Mail's HTML mail composition may be woefully lacking in features, but at least it's consistent.
Also not a big fan of Gmail's filters here. They have a nasty habit of just deciding to stop working some days leaving everything sitting in the Inbox, or often in Spam. Don't know if you're aware but Lookout used to be a 3rd party search add-on for Outlook that made Outlook actually useful. I believe Microsoft bought it and integrated it into Outlook a few versions ago.
Well that's just obvious. It won't fly any longer if you haven't upgraded the battery.
If the Taco character got in on the basis of a mere 32,000 votes how many "No" votes could get mustered up to defeat Nestle's Break character?
Did you RTFA? I'm not normally one to defend /. editors with their crappy proofing and duplicates, but in this case the click bait comes from outside /.
The original article and a few others:
Yes, when you mistreat Li-Pos swelling and fire is the end result. I've seen it a few times. Can't speak for commercial gear but my e-planes and e-helis are quite well ventilated to keep the batteries cooled while in-flight. With the exception of my current-hungry hotliner (which typically pulls >150 amps on its 20 second climb outs) my batteries tend to be barely warm upon landing and when charging are cooled by a 100mm computer fan.
Especially if you need any range, most hobby aircraft can only fly about 15 minutes off a battery, and then require hours of charging.
Maybe in the Ni-Cd and Ni-MH days. Most e-planes, e-helis and quads these days run off Li-Poly or similar batteries and most fast charge in under an hour. They're so light you can just add more to extend the range, but you don't because (a) they're often not cheap enough and (b) most hobby pilots have had enough flying after 10-20 minutes and probably need to yield the flight line to other (impatient) hobby pilots as well.
Assuming Amazon goes down the Li-Poly route they're either intending to have twice as many drones than they want to keep in the air at any one time, or they'll be employing humans/robots to swap over battery packs when drones return to the depot.
It would be fairly inexpensive to place a unique delivery ID beacon on every home that wanted drone delivery, and a designated drop-off spot would be easy to program in.
Didn't watch the video, hey? Recipients placed a ~1x1-foot marker plate out on the lawn which the drone homed in on to land and release the package. Then they just picked up their package and the marker plate and headed back inside. I'm guessing that Amazon plans to mail these out to customers when they sign up to a premium delivery service.
The Palm Treo line, and I'm sure many others, had 2.5mm headphone/mic sockets and performed just fine.
That said... you're just not thinking like Apple. They've patented this connector and so can charge royalties to anyone wanting to sell headphones (or adaptors) in their ecosystem. And anyone manufacturing unlicensed connectors will get torpedoed by their lawyers.
As opposed to modern society: when the computers die knowledge goes with them.
I don't envy the jobs of future historians 1,000 years from now trying to recover what happened in our day. Even if physical media survives that long (which it won't), how will they discern the methods required to read the information back? It's hard enough trying to recover data from 30 year old floppy disks given that you can't buy 40 TPI magnetic heads any more and 80 TPI magnetic heads often won't read the fatter tracks.
Yeah, because that worked so well for DVDs and region coding.
I third this, but a QR code for the spine might be pushing your luck: it's a small area for a lot of novels and may be easily damaged/rubbed off. Just inside the front cover maybe, or on the title page.
People like me have been using content filtering proxy servers like Privoxy for a very long time. What makes you think we'll trust a web browser (especially an Apple browser) to do the job for us?
An engine cannot become clean without any hardware modification.
There should be a whole bunch of asterisks on that comment.
I get really annoyed at the mass media's reporting on this issue as a "defeat device", as if VW have added a physical piece of hardware to their engines to cheat the tests. It's the ECM software that's at issue, not some bogus defeat device. The ECM software has control over all sorts of things: air flow, fuel flow, fuel/air mix ratios, injection timings, dwell timings, etc.. Before fuel injection all this used to happen in hardware with stop screw adjustments, cam-valve clearances, etc.. If the engine is otherwise well designed then an ECM software update may be all that's needed to rectify the issues.
Firefox hacks mentions a 20 cookie per client connection limit. That appears to be true today.
It's not a limit, that was a recommendation from the original Netscape Cookie Specification. It's up to the individual browser implementors what limits they place on cookie size, cookies/domain, total cookie counts and even max cookie age. I have seen some web sites in the Top 1000 Alexa site list, for example, spu out over 60 Set-Cookie headers in response to a simple GET / HTTP/1.1 request - and that's just for the source page, not even any of the linked resources.
If you're still browsing mainly HTTP pages (not HTTPS) from a desktop-based computer I highly recommend getting hold of Privoxy and configuring it to eat the Set-Cookie headers for you. I'm sure there are other tools out there that achieve a similar result, but cookies are only a very small part of the identity tracking problem.
I think you've got that ass-about-face. Gatekeeper only checks the signatures on .app files - Apps or Applications as downloaded from the App Store and various web sites. The .app files are essentially .zip archives containing a bunch of executables, library files, media content, configuration data, etc. Every other executable on the system is not even checked by Gatekeeper which is why people are still able to use Homebrew and MacPorts to download, compile and execute *nix software.
The attack scenario allows a malicious .app file to be trusted which then turns around and downloads other executable content and is then able to run that because that other content is not checked by Gatekeeper.
To be fair to Microsoft (yeah I know, unusual for me), Skype was logging all conversations long before they got bought out my Microsoft. There have been many complaints over the years as people couldn't expunge their Skype chat history as the ability to do this disappeared and reappeared through various versions. This become an even more common issue with iOS (due to iCloud syncing), Android (Google Sync) and Windows Phone as well.
REF: What's in the box?
Windows 10 on an 8GB SD card ... will it even have enough space for the first run of Windows Update?
On the other hand it may make us unemployable as ordinary people nick our jobs...
Unlikely. We had to take art subjects all through primary school and again in high school years 8-10. How many of us became Michelangelos? It was an interesting way for us to explore our creativity and to better understand art when we look at it in the real world but comparatively few of us actually came out of it wanting become artists to make a living at it.
Given most modern cars have built in GPS receivers for the navigation software in their infotainment systems I doubt that detecting EPA tests on a dyno is hard: if (WheelVelocity > (GpsVelocity+10)) then Use(EpaMap) else Use(PowerMap).
The issue is that monopolies like taxis get so focused on profits or whatever, that they forget they only get income from customers. With no competition, why should I treat my customers well?
Don't know what it's like where you are, but here taxis are relatively expensive because of the annual Taxi License fees that the state government charges. I can understand the taxi services getting upset when Uber drivers come in offering the same service but avoiding the license fees. The way to solve the problem isn't trying to restrict Uber's operations with new laws and court battles, it's dispensing with the Taxi License fees to make it an open market.
The LAST thing I want is some idiot CIO trying to "fix" things that are not broken.
Oh, that was: 7. If it ain’t broken, consider fixing it.