Probably because everyone doesn't want one, or qualify to operate or run one.
Yeah, that's right. All the people on the Enterprise doing the crappy jobs do it because they love doing crappy jobs, not because no-one willl give them their own Enterprise in the glorious 'post-scarcity' Federation.
Just like everyone in the Soviet Union was free, so long as they did everything they were told to do.
Nope. This is actually a sensor to determine, when headphones are plugged in, whether they're just stereo headphones, headphones+mic, or headphones+mic+control interface.
That is so totally freaking innovative. I would never, ever have thought of building in a sensor to detect what type of headphones were plugged in.
Don't be silly. Punishment after conviction is so old-fashioned. Today we've made the police far more efficient by allowing them to punish people before they're convicted.
In fairness I was a 3dfx fanboy and the Voodoo2 was just great, usable up to four years after its release (very competent board for Counterstrike 1.5)
Only because game developers had to cripple their games to run on its crappy hardware or the 3dfx fanboys would whine.
'No-one needs 32-bit rendering' 'No-one needs AGP' 'No-one needs more than 12MB of RAM'
etc, etc, etc.
Just about everyone I know in the gaming industry celebrated when 3dfx died and they could actually start using all the features that had been available on other companies' cards for years.
Who needs 'post-scarcity utopia' when you can huddle behind the razor wire that surrounds your gated enclave and watch the battle between the barbarous criminal scum living in filth in the sacrifice zones and SecuriDyne kinetic pacification drones in real time, HD, 24/7 on the fear channel?
The whole concept of a 'post-scarcity utopia' is bullshit anyway. If Star Trek is a 'post-scarcity utopia', why doesn't everyone get their own enormous starship?
Also, government police benefit from increasing crime, because they can demand more money and power. Private police benefit from decreasing crime, because otherwise they'll be dumped and replaced by another company.
What's the point of this? The local culture isn't going to be changed, and your going to have the same culture clash with the new police department as the old. Cops enforce the law? Residents get pissed about getting arrested. Cops don't enforce the law? Residents get pissed about crime.
For one thing, they'll presumably be enforcing the laws they're paid to enforce, and not the laws local people don't care about. So more likely to be patrolling to discourage burglars and muggers than sitting at the side of the road with a donut and a radar gun.
There's been at least one case of someone surviving a plane disintegrating at altitude because they were still strapped in the seat and it absorbed much of the impact when they crashed into the jungle. And, if the plane suffers rapid decompression and you're not wearing a seat belt, your head will probably smack into the overhead bins and break your neck.
Presumably, that's 20 hours if you don't actually use it to do anything.
I'd looked for battery life in the article too, since it was inevitably going to be something retarded that would require you to recharge the damn thing every day. Having to recharge a phone every couple of weeks is annoying enough.
Which is a lot of them. And it's presumably faster on games that use three threads or less (the i3 is hyperhreading, isn't it, so it won't be as fast as a real quad?).
IPsec isn't that interesting if the keys are all compromised.
Duh. No form of encryption works if the keys are all compromised.
However, IPSEC supports forward secrecy, which should always be used where available. That means they can't easily decode a recorded IPSEC session even when the keys are compromised, only launch man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Probably because everyone doesn't want one, or qualify to operate or run one.
Yeah, that's right. All the people on the Enterprise doing the crappy jobs do it because they love doing crappy jobs, not because no-one willl give them their own Enterprise in the glorious 'post-scarcity' Federation.
Just like everyone in the Soviet Union was free, so long as they did everything they were told to do.
Nope. This is actually a sensor to determine, when headphones are plugged in, whether they're just stereo headphones, headphones+mic, or headphones+mic+control interface.
That is so totally freaking innovative. I would never, ever have thought of building in a sensor to detect what type of headphones were plugged in.
Man, these guys are smart.
Try not to fall for Republican stunts. Republican extremists shut down the government, then pulled a stunt with veterans as a show for the goobers.
Ah, so EVIL REPUBLICANS sneaked out in the night and put barricades around memorials. Now it all makes sense.
Don't be silly. Punishment after conviction is so old-fashioned. Today we've made the police far more efficient by allowing them to punish people before they're convicted.
In fairness I was a 3dfx fanboy and the Voodoo2 was just great, usable up to four years after its release (very competent board for Counterstrike 1.5)
Only because game developers had to cripple their games to run on its crappy hardware or the 3dfx fanboys would whine.
'No-one needs 32-bit rendering'
'No-one needs AGP'
'No-one needs more than 12MB of RAM'
etc, etc, etc.
Just about everyone I know in the gaming industry celebrated when 3dfx died and they could actually start using all the features that had been available on other companies' cards for years.
Who needs 'post-scarcity utopia' when you can huddle behind the razor wire that surrounds your gated enclave and watch the battle between the barbarous criminal scum living in filth in the sacrifice zones and SecuriDyne kinetic pacification drones in real time, HD, 24/7 on the fear channel?
The whole concept of a 'post-scarcity utopia' is bullshit anyway. If Star Trek is a 'post-scarcity utopia', why doesn't everyone get their own enormous starship?
Also, government police benefit from increasing crime, because they can demand more money and power. Private police benefit from decreasing crime, because otherwise they'll be dumped and replaced by another company.
What's the point of this? The local culture isn't going to be changed, and your going to have the same culture clash with the new police department as the old. Cops enforce the law? Residents get pissed about getting arrested. Cops don't enforce the law? Residents get pissed about crime.
For one thing, they'll presumably be enforcing the laws they're paid to enforce, and not the laws local people don't care about. So more likely to be patrolling to discourage burglars and muggers than sitting at the side of the road with a donut and a radar gun.
There's been at least one case of someone surviving a plane disintegrating at altitude because they were still strapped in the seat and it absorbed much of the impact when they crashed into the jungle. And, if the plane suffers rapid decompression and you're not wearing a seat belt, your head will probably smack into the overhead bins and break your neck.
Presumably, that's 20 hours if you don't actually use it to do anything.
I'd looked for battery life in the article too, since it was inevitably going to be something retarded that would require you to recharge the damn thing every day. Having to recharge a phone every couple of weeks is annoying enough.
Can we move on now
'Can we move on now' is the battle cry of the psychopath who's just been caught.
Hands up all those who've been desperately waiting for a 'smart watch' to stick on their wrist?
Yeah, thought not.
What is wrong with MasterCard's already implemented SecureCode?
Other than being a fscking disaster that encourages people to hand personal information to unknown web sites?
Troll rating: 2/10.
But kind of funny.
What exactly can they do with your fingerprints that's dastardly and evil? I think I'm missing something.
Break into your account on any other service that's retarded enough to think fingerprints are passwords?
Hand them to the NSA so they can link your online activities to your fingerprints?
Just two that come to mind in about ten seconds.
That's why you use someone else's finger.
This is the original dual-core Atom, which did have 3D drivers for Linux. I presume this new chip will too, to whatever extend it can do graphics.
Sure, the games which run in a single thread.
Which is a lot of them. And it's presumably faster on games that use three threads or less (the i3 is hyperhreading, isn't it, so it won't be as fast as a real quad?).
Intel i3 is now a high-end CPU?
It runs some games faster than an 8-core AMD...
The only one of those missing from my old $85 Intel dual-core Atom mini-ITX board is the flash.
IPsec isn't that interesting if the keys are all compromised.
Duh. No form of encryption works if the keys are all compromised.
However, IPSEC supports forward secrecy, which should always be used where available. That means they can't easily decode a recorded IPSEC session even when the keys are compromised, only launch man-in-the-middle attacks.
Even on Linux that's just a load of nonsense.
Yeah, because I totally buy expensive SSDs so I can open text files fast rather than boot and start applications quickly.
For one thing, it is annoying to have to separate the OS and whatever apps you want to launch fast on to a tiny drive from everything else.
I just put / on the SSD and /home and /var (if it has to hold a lot of data) on the hard drive.
Oh, sorry, are you running one of those weird old operating systems that have that drive letter nonsense?
Where did companies like Apple and Microsoft come from then?
Microsoft began with MS Basic, which, if I remember correctly, was about 8k of assembler.
Even 'Hello World' compiles to more than 8k on most modern operating systems.
But we are talking about the people who wrote Flash...