Solar panel efficiency also drops as they get warm. Somewhat counter-intuitively, this means that in some cases they can be more efficient when it's cloudy and there's less IR hitting them.
There are a few horrible misfeatures in PowerPoint. The worst was copied by Keynote in later versions: automatically resizing text to fit. Most of the templates have a large enough font that you can only fit a few key ideas on the slides. That's fine, because you don't want your audience reading the slides, you want them as things to refer to while you're talking. The automatic size reduction feature means that you can just keep adding text until it's illegibly small, long after the point when you'd be unable to keep the attention of the audience while you're speaking.
According to my optician, it's also one of the early signs of diabetes in a lot of people. It's something that they routinely check for (it's very easy to do if you have two photos of the retina from different times and not something that it should be difficult to train an expert system to do). The first time I had my retina photographed, my optician was telling me that the previous week they'd caught early signs of diabetes in a child that they were fitting for glasses: they were able to begin insulin treatments nice and early and significantly reduce the amount of damage that occurred before more obvious symptoms.
Yup, they exist. They do require that you install their root cert on the client device though - I'm not aware of any vendors that have a pre-compromised one (though you can install your own, and I'm sure that intelligence services do). Certificate Transparency would protect you here, because you'd be seeing different certs to anyone else (except people behind the same proxy). Similarly, certificate pinning will work if you've connected to the site from a different location first. Self-signed certs won't help without certificate pinning, because you will just see a self-signed cert in both cases (unless the box signs even unsigned certs, in which case you might notice that you're not prompted that the encrypted connection is untrusted when it's been MITM'd).
The absolute irony is that visiting a site with a self-signed certificate shows the user a warning error (I understand why, don't worry) yet the resulting HTTPS exchange is actually immune to any and all eavesdropping. When visiting a site with a cert authority signed certificate, no error is displayed, yet this connection is vulnerable to anyone who has broken/intercepted the chain of trust
Not quite. Both connections are entirely safe from passive eavesdropping. Even if I've compromised a root cert that you're using, that doesn't let me decrypt TLS traffic. It does mean that if I am actively performing a man in the middle attack on you, then you won't notice, because during the initial key exchange you'll connect to me and establish a secure connection and I'll connect to the remote server and establish a secure connection. You'll trust me because I'll use a cert signed by one that I trust. The difference between this and a self-signed cert is that when the server uses a self-signed cert, there's no need for me to compromise a root cert that you trust: I can still perform the MITM attack and you won't know the difference.
Certificate pinning protects you from this to a degree: If you connect to a server twice and the certificate changes, then there may be a problem. On the other hand, there might not be, and with a self-signed cert, you can't revoke it if it's compromised and you can't easily advertise the fact that this is a replacement cert from the same person (unless you properly self-sign, rather than simply not signing, and people pin your signing cert).
Certificate transparency protects in both cases, by providing a public log of all of the certificates that have been seen by people connecting to the server. If the server operator sees a cert that they didn't issue, or if you see a cert that's not the same one that other people are seeing, then something is wrong.
We actually do this for Council Tax (rough analogue of property tax). Each year, the local council is required to send out a breakdown of how the money that your council taxes were spent. They typically extend this to a short pamphlet highlighting some of the things that they consider achievements.
It's a problem if you're selling intangible goods or services. For anything that's shipped to the UK, HMRC is empowered to confiscate the goods until the recipient has paid the VAT that is owed. The buyer will probably go to Amazon or eBay and ask for a full refund in this case and the seller will quickly end up unable to conduct business via these channels.
because the police is asking for it and to deny it,
Actually, they're not. The police realise that being able to install malware (which the act permits) makes it easy to tamper with evidence and destroys the normal evidence chain, so will open a load of grounds for challenging any evidence that they can bring to court. The intelligence agencies (who would far rather let someone get off a crime than compromise a data-gathering source) are in favour of it.
The fact that you'd even consider Apple to be an alternative in the embedded space lets us know that you have no idea what you're talking about. There are half a dozen players here that would make sense, but a consumer hardware vendor shouldn't be anywhere near the list.
As the other poster said, we haven't left yet (or even started to officially leave). Add to that, this law was drafted back when the current PM was Home Secretary. It was one of the reasons that she wanted Britain to be able to opt out of the European Court of Justice, as this is almost certainly going to see legal challenges.
Most don't know about it. There was a poll a month or so back that showed that 97% of people in Britain were opposed to this, when they knew what it contained, but only around 5-10% were even aware that it was being passed.
I think that browsing history for elected officials is in the public interest and so can probably be requested via a freedom of information act request.
I'm in favour of recounts in general, and for this election in particular.
I'd go one step further, and have been arguing for years that any free country should welcome international observers during their elections. We try to force them on other countries when we think that their elections are unfair, the least we can do is integrate them as a routine part of our electoral processes.
It is not unconstitutional. The constitution intentionally grants a lot of freedom to the individual states as to how they select their electors and what constraints they place upon them. It would be counter to the aims of the constitution for the Federal Government to mandate anything like this, but it's entirely within the structure of the constitution for states to select the electors via any means that they wish. It turns out that when you grant a freedom, people don't always do what you want with it.
While true in intent, the Constitution does allows the states to decide the rules for their electors and a number of states have 'faithless elector' laws, where an elector who stands saying that he will vote for one candidate, yet votes for another, can be prosecuted.
George Bush was compared to a chimp because of demonstrated stupidity.
Michelle Obama was compared to an ape entirely out of racism.
The images of both originated on the Celebrity Chimps web site, which took images of a large number of celebrities and chips with the same facial expression (and, I think, morphed pictures of one to look more like the other). They had a selection of a few dozen Bush-chimp images along with a load of other people, of various ethnicities. Within a couple of weeks of posting the Michelle Obama photo, they were hounded to the extent that their hosting provider pulled support and the site no longer exists.
One of the reasons RISC-V exists is that this is quite difficult. It can take two years to negotiate a license with ARM. The ARM licenses can also eat up a lot of your profit. Micron is one of the RISC-V backers because the licenses for the ARM cores on their SSDs eat a very noticeable proportion of the per-unit profit.
In particular, in the RISC-V case, the exact way of handling unaligned accesses is likely to vary a lot between implementations. In a microcontroller-class implementation, I'd expect it to handle these in microcode. For something particularly area-constrained, you might also implement multiplication and division in microcode.
The optimiser is largely irrelevant, as most optimisations are target independent these days. RISC-V support in GCC and LLVM is currently undergoing upstreaming, but it's a bit slow because the ABI has changed a couple of times. For a microcontroller it's probably fine: the privileged mode part of the spec is still not quite final, so I wouldn't recommend it yet for anything that you might want to run an OS on.
Most FPGAs are nothing like open at the gate level. You provide a proprietary toolchain with HDL and it generates... something. The encoding of that something is proprietary, how it maps to hardware resources is a trade secret (though the tools will tell you what proportion of each type of resources are used).
Iceland is popular among low-income families (and we seem to have been working hard to increase the number of those in the UK in recent years) because they sell frozen everything. If you're working a job with long hours and low pay, then being able to pull things out of the freezer to feed the family and not having to shop frequently (because you don't have time to) is valuable. Iceland caters for this demographic.
It's odd to see this on Slashdot, because it's been in the news on and off for a few months. The issue is that Iceland (the supermarket) applied for an overly broad trademark that would have prevented anyone else from using the word 'Iceland' in conjunction with food. Iceland (the country) objected because it prevents things like Icelandic fishermen from putting their country of origin in their advertising (which, given the exports from Iceland, may be problematic). They attempted to negotiate a license that would permit this use, but Iceland (the supermarket) refused. Iceland (the country) is now taking this to court.
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Solar panel efficiency also drops as they get warm. Somewhat counter-intuitively, this means that in some cases they can be more efficient when it's cloudy and there's less IR hitting them.
There are a few horrible misfeatures in PowerPoint. The worst was copied by Keynote in later versions: automatically resizing text to fit. Most of the templates have a large enough font that you can only fit a few key ideas on the slides. That's fine, because you don't want your audience reading the slides, you want them as things to refer to while you're talking. The automatic size reduction feature means that you can just keep adding text until it's illegibly small, long after the point when you'd be unable to keep the attention of the audience while you're speaking.
According to my optician, it's also one of the early signs of diabetes in a lot of people. It's something that they routinely check for (it's very easy to do if you have two photos of the retina from different times and not something that it should be difficult to train an expert system to do). The first time I had my retina photographed, my optician was telling me that the previous week they'd caught early signs of diabetes in a child that they were fitting for glasses: they were able to begin insulin treatments nice and early and significantly reduce the amount of damage that occurred before more obvious symptoms.
Yup, they exist. They do require that you install their root cert on the client device though - I'm not aware of any vendors that have a pre-compromised one (though you can install your own, and I'm sure that intelligence services do). Certificate Transparency would protect you here, because you'd be seeing different certs to anyone else (except people behind the same proxy). Similarly, certificate pinning will work if you've connected to the site from a different location first. Self-signed certs won't help without certificate pinning, because you will just see a self-signed cert in both cases (unless the box signs even unsigned certs, in which case you might notice that you're not prompted that the encrypted connection is untrusted when it's been MITM'd).
The absolute irony is that visiting a site with a self-signed certificate shows the user a warning error (I understand why, don't worry) yet the resulting HTTPS exchange is actually immune to any and all eavesdropping. When visiting a site with a cert authority signed certificate, no error is displayed, yet this connection is vulnerable to anyone who has broken/intercepted the chain of trust
Not quite. Both connections are entirely safe from passive eavesdropping. Even if I've compromised a root cert that you're using, that doesn't let me decrypt TLS traffic. It does mean that if I am actively performing a man in the middle attack on you, then you won't notice, because during the initial key exchange you'll connect to me and establish a secure connection and I'll connect to the remote server and establish a secure connection. You'll trust me because I'll use a cert signed by one that I trust. The difference between this and a self-signed cert is that when the server uses a self-signed cert, there's no need for me to compromise a root cert that you trust: I can still perform the MITM attack and you won't know the difference.
Certificate pinning protects you from this to a degree: If you connect to a server twice and the certificate changes, then there may be a problem. On the other hand, there might not be, and with a self-signed cert, you can't revoke it if it's compromised and you can't easily advertise the fact that this is a replacement cert from the same person (unless you properly self-sign, rather than simply not signing, and people pin your signing cert).
Certificate transparency protects in both cases, by providing a public log of all of the certificates that have been seen by people connecting to the server. If the server operator sees a cert that they didn't issue, or if you see a cert that's not the same one that other people are seeing, then something is wrong.
We actually do this for Council Tax (rough analogue of property tax). Each year, the local council is required to send out a breakdown of how the money that your council taxes were spent. They typically extend this to a short pamphlet highlighting some of the things that they consider achievements.
It's a problem if you're selling intangible goods or services. For anything that's shipped to the UK, HMRC is empowered to confiscate the goods until the recipient has paid the VAT that is owed. The buyer will probably go to Amazon or eBay and ask for a full refund in this case and the seller will quickly end up unable to conduct business via these channels.
because the police is asking for it and to deny it,
Actually, they're not. The police realise that being able to install malware (which the act permits) makes it easy to tamper with evidence and destroys the normal evidence chain, so will open a load of grounds for challenging any evidence that they can bring to court. The intelligence agencies (who would far rather let someone get off a crime than compromise a data-gathering source) are in favour of it.
The fact that you'd even consider Apple to be an alternative in the embedded space lets us know that you have no idea what you're talking about. There are half a dozen players here that would make sense, but a consumer hardware vendor shouldn't be anywhere near the list.
So, since around the last time these systems were updated then?
As the other poster said, we haven't left yet (or even started to officially leave). Add to that, this law was drafted back when the current PM was Home Secretary. It was one of the reasons that she wanted Britain to be able to opt out of the European Court of Justice, as this is almost certainly going to see legal challenges.
Most don't know about it. There was a poll a month or so back that showed that 97% of people in Britain were opposed to this, when they knew what it contained, but only around 5-10% were even aware that it was being passed.
I think that browsing history for elected officials is in the public interest and so can probably be requested via a freedom of information act request.
I'm in favour of recounts in general, and for this election in particular.
I'd go one step further, and have been arguing for years that any free country should welcome international observers during their elections. We try to force them on other countries when we think that their elections are unfair, the least we can do is integrate them as a routine part of our electoral processes.
It is not unconstitutional. The constitution intentionally grants a lot of freedom to the individual states as to how they select their electors and what constraints they place upon them. It would be counter to the aims of the constitution for the Federal Government to mandate anything like this, but it's entirely within the structure of the constitution for states to select the electors via any means that they wish. It turns out that when you grant a freedom, people don't always do what you want with it.
While true in intent, the Constitution does allows the states to decide the rules for their electors and a number of states have 'faithless elector' laws, where an elector who stands saying that he will vote for one candidate, yet votes for another, can be prosecuted.
George Bush was compared to a chimp because of demonstrated stupidity.
Michelle Obama was compared to an ape entirely out of racism.
The images of both originated on the Celebrity Chimps web site, which took images of a large number of celebrities and chips with the same facial expression (and, I think, morphed pictures of one to look more like the other). They had a selection of a few dozen Bush-chimp images along with a load of other people, of various ethnicities. Within a couple of weeks of posting the Michelle Obama photo, they were hounded to the extent that their hosting provider pulled support and the site no longer exists.
Are you really saying those things are the same ?
Nope, only one got the web site shut down.
Contrast with just picking up a license from ARM
One of the reasons RISC-V exists is that this is quite difficult. It can take two years to negotiate a license with ARM. The ARM licenses can also eat up a lot of your profit. Micron is one of the RISC-V backers because the licenses for the ARM cores on their SSDs eat a very noticeable proportion of the per-unit profit.
In particular, in the RISC-V case, the exact way of handling unaligned accesses is likely to vary a lot between implementations. In a microcontroller-class implementation, I'd expect it to handle these in microcode. For something particularly area-constrained, you might also implement multiplication and division in microcode.
The optimiser is largely irrelevant, as most optimisations are target independent these days. RISC-V support in GCC and LLVM is currently undergoing upstreaming, but it's a bit slow because the ABI has changed a couple of times. For a microcontroller it's probably fine: the privileged mode part of the spec is still not quite final, so I wouldn't recommend it yet for anything that you might want to run an OS on.
Most FPGAs are nothing like open at the gate level. You provide a proprietary toolchain with HDL and it generates... something. The encoding of that something is proprietary, how it maps to hardware resources is a trade secret (though the tools will tell you what proportion of each type of resources are used).
Alt-left, alt-gr-right.
Iceland is popular among low-income families (and we seem to have been working hard to increase the number of those in the UK in recent years) because they sell frozen everything. If you're working a job with long hours and low pay, then being able to pull things out of the freezer to feed the family and not having to shop frequently (because you don't have time to) is valuable. Iceland caters for this demographic.
It's odd to see this on Slashdot, because it's been in the news on and off for a few months. The issue is that Iceland (the supermarket) applied for an overly broad trademark that would have prevented anyone else from using the word 'Iceland' in conjunction with food. Iceland (the country) objected because it prevents things like Icelandic fishermen from putting their country of origin in their advertising (which, given the exports from Iceland, may be problematic). They attempted to negotiate a license that would permit this use, but Iceland (the supermarket) refused. Iceland (the country) is now taking this to court.