Actually, Ireland wants to - and will - remain in the EU as they benefit from membership much more than Britain. Also, the EU has already told Catalonia that they (EU) will NOT recognize their claim of independence. But sure - keep stirrin the pot, Mr. Trump-Bannon-Farage.
As Apple pointed out, their phones truly just do not support OTA radio broadcasts. But Pai could not be bothered to uncover this little technical fact first....Now, if he were really serious about this "life-saving" stuff, he could use his R majority on the FCC to mandate that - after, say, 2020 - all smartphones sold in America must be able to receive and play OTA broadcasts but the chances of THAT happening are below zero.
...not as I do. Horrible! As someone who ran a presentation to Intel execs back in 2003 using OO running under Linux on an Itanium, I call Bullshit(TM) on anyone who says "Oh - nothing else measures up to Powerpoint!".
Seriously - The Economist magazine recently had a great article (https://www.economist.com/news/world-if/21724908-huge-potential-impact-rich-countries-prolonged-loss-electricity-disaster) highlighting A) the catastrophic effect on civilized life and B) the ridiculously low cost of preventive measures and C) as always, the lack of political will, coupled with a lack of technical knowledge across broad swaths of our populace and - especially! - politicians married with a "gubmint regulations are bad, M'Kay!" mentality and you have potential disaster looming. Don' worry, though, the latest version of Apple's iPhone will have an app to fix that!:-)
That such a well-respected pillar of the medical-device community would behave in an un-ethical manner. Especially, Mylan! Why, they are the perfect exemplar of capitalism in health care in America, right? Right? Right? C'mon.....anyone?
OK, humor aside...We've all seen/experienced these effects in everything from pool to baseball, etc. but it is ALWAYS good to learn the "why" behind the "what".
Damn! Will wonders never cease? Look, all of you self-driving car Luddites can just stay the hell away from them. For the rest of us, though, it makes PERFECT sense to have National standards for these cars in the same way that we currently have National standards for all current vehicles. Otherwise, you'd have an amalgam of incompatible state-based standards that would severely hinder development and deployment. (California's stricter emissions standards being the only exception I'm aware of.) What's wrong with that?
...they're just adding this to their list of technology transfers they require of lots of companies. Within 20 years, max, we'll truly start to appreciate the damage we've done by giving China a monopoly on manufacturing.
That makes it even worse! If this decision had been made, say, 8 years ago it might make a tiny bit of sense, but 2 YEARS ago!!! That is eye-wateringly stupid!
...just whoindahell could be dumb enough to think that Windows phone would ever last? Hell, us North Georgia Rednecks(TM) stayed away from them in droves! Christ, that one sale must have been half of all Windows phone sales. What maroons!!
Let's start with the operative sentence: "...doesn't keep attackers out, the renewed focus on logging aids flagging and detection. It's a baseline step that helps remediation and response after an attack is over, or if it persists long-term..." Really? Gee - thanks, Mister! After the damage is done - long-term, BTW -we'll have logs! Logs solve everything! Dumbass....
Just the fact that you are justifying MURDER tells us all we need to know about you. Sadly, yes, in my old-fart experience, delusional, paranoid, hard-right extremists who can just make shit up (or, hear/see it on Fox and talk radio) and believe it like it's Holy Gospel are MUCH more common than earlier and makes me really, really glad that I am on old fart so that by the time your type of Idiocracy spreads too much further, I'll be gone and won't have to see it.
Look, you BC guys want to have your little fantasies about "alt-currencies"? Go right ahead. Do NOT, however, think that BC will ever be any kind of true money (legal tender). It's 100% pure, organic, dolphin-free gambling. Sure, today, I can agree with a barber, say, to cut my hair in exchange for non-currency. It's known as barter. Barter, however, is even better in that there is something of value being exchanged. What's BC? Some algorithm generated on a Chinese server-farm. Woo-hoo! Suckers, apparently, are born every nano-second.
... they pinky-swear that they have changed. Bullshit! If they ever have a chance to do anything similar and it will make them money, they'll do it. I've been MS-free for years and it's been a real joy to convert so many family and friends to it. Plus, BTW, I no longer get calls from them about the latest thing that Windows is doing. Great!!
...country. C'mon! What did you expect?!? Ever since we (America) gave all of our manufacturing (and engineering, design, etc.) to Communist China, we've been transferring our Sovereignty to them. And I include Apple, etc. in that category axs they caved so easily in their "Privacy" concerns in exchange for Chinese $$$.
Likewise Ford. I have a 2002 Ranger and only got one key when I bought the truck, so I went to the dealer to have an additional made. No dice. You must have 2 keys before they will cut a new one. If I lose that one key, it must be towed to the dealer as any attempt to bypass it will result in bricking the truck. Minimum charge (not counting the tow)? $300. Obviously, had I known, I would have bought a different make. Fuck Ford.
OK, rather burn a mod point and not be able to comment, I'll comment. You are falling into the classic trap of "purity". By your measure, child porn - to use another extreme example - would be allowed. Likewise, ISIS beheading and recruiting videos... In the same way that I have the freedom to travel within America (leaving aside the 100-mile Customs area) at will, there are limits on routes, maximum speeds, seat-belt requirements, etc. to which I must adhere. According to your logic, any of those limits are "OH NO! My FREEDOM is GONE!!". Very stupid, mate.
That was my first Linux install, soon to be followed by Slackware, then Mandrake. At that time Mandrake (and SuSE) had the absolute BEST interfaces going, though - in true Linux/UNIX fashion - they were entirely incompatible.:-) Think AIX's SMIT vs SCO's or Sun's UI experience.
" They've basically built a company populated with rabid malcontents that are prepared to harm or kill their cow-orkers." Jeezus Horatio Christ! How in Da Fuck(TM) did THIS piece get modded +5?!?! I know this is/., but THIS kind of mindless drivel that gets modded +5 is EXACTLY why I spend more time on ArsTechnica than here. Their level of discourse - very sadly!! - is 100X greater than here. As a six-digiter, you guys have sunk way low.
Dude, you're "thinking" is fucked up and shows that you are obviously a hyper-partisan. I'm a Bernie fan, but in my career I've hired well over a hundred people. Never once did any political leanings come into the interview or any subsequent review. I had one guy who was an anti-tax radical (sadly, he went to jail and I had to replace him), a gay guy who was "Out" and proud of it. We all loved the guy. I hired gun owners and gun haters. NONE of that had anything to do with job performance which is the ONLY thing that any real boss cares about. If you (or Google or anyone) is hiring for PC reasons of any stripe, you should resign immediately as you are not worthy of any management role. Period.
Back when I went to CDI in the mid-70's, in a class of 28, there was ONE woman and zero blacks. Was it because CDI was racist/sexist? Hell, no! At the time, DG, DEC, etc., with whom I interviewed, all made me an offer and each also said "If only you were a black woman, you'd be perfect!" At that time, these companies were trying - on their own - to hire more women and minorities. Sadly, due 100% IMO to cultural factors, the pool was shallow as hell. Fast forward and more women and blacks are participating more today, but nowhere near where they need to be to make up for the decades lost. It'll all shake it out in time, but women and blacks need to get onto the damned field!
The GE nuclear plants under construction that are being halted due to severe cost overruns in South Carolina and Georgia will saddle the taxpayers with close to $10B in loan guarantees from the government. Crickets from the Conservatives on this, but...Gasp!...Solar or other Green (read: "Liberal") stuff? Noooooo!!!!
OK, the use of BTC to transfer currencies from failing states like Venezuela I get. However, what I see is a lot more folks treating it as a gamble on its value rising inexorably - nothing more. With a hard limit of 21M BTCs and no underlying "store of value", I can't see it being anything but a scam. Having said that, the underlying blockchain tech has tremendous potential for "normal" purposes.
WTF is the underlying value behind BTC (or Ethereum, etc.) other than its own artificially created scarcity? Gold, cars, jewelry and other "investments" have value whether it's aesthetic or whatever, so can usually be enjoyed in some fashion while you own it. And real American $$ have the advantage of being - you know - legal tender for all debts, public and private" so is immensely useful/valuable. BTC, from all I can see, is just fools gambling. What am I missing?
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Actually, Ireland wants to - and will - remain in the EU as they benefit from membership much more than Britain. Also, the EU has already told Catalonia that they (EU) will NOT recognize their claim of independence. But sure - keep stirrin the pot, Mr. Trump-Bannon-Farage.
As Apple pointed out, their phones truly just do not support OTA radio broadcasts. But Pai could not be bothered to uncover this little technical fact first....Now, if he were really serious about this "life-saving" stuff, he could use his R majority on the FCC to mandate that - after, say, 2020 - all smartphones sold in America must be able to receive and play OTA broadcasts but the chances of THAT happening are below zero.
...not as I do. Horrible! As someone who ran a presentation to Intel execs back in 2003 using OO running under Linux on an Itanium, I call Bullshit(TM) on anyone who says "Oh - nothing else measures up to Powerpoint!".
Seriously - The Economist magazine recently had a great article (https://www.economist.com/news/world-if/21724908-huge-potential-impact-rich-countries-prolonged-loss-electricity-disaster) highlighting A) the catastrophic effect on civilized life and B) the ridiculously low cost of preventive measures and C) as always, the lack of political will, coupled with a lack of technical knowledge across broad swaths of our populace and - especially! - politicians married with a "gubmint regulations are bad, M'Kay!" mentality and you have potential disaster looming. Don' worry, though, the latest version of Apple's iPhone will have an app to fix that! :-)
That such a well-respected pillar of the medical-device community would behave in an un-ethical manner. Especially, Mylan! Why, they are the perfect exemplar of capitalism in health care in America, right? Right? Right? C'mon.....anyone?
And we have a winner for most stupid comment on this thread - possibly the entire day! (Private company fails miserably - Blame Government!)
OK, humor aside...We've all seen/experienced these effects in everything from pool to baseball, etc. but it is ALWAYS good to learn the "why" behind the "what".
Damn! Will wonders never cease? Look, all of you self-driving car Luddites can just stay the hell away from them. For the rest of us, though, it makes PERFECT sense to have National standards for these cars in the same way that we currently have National standards for all current vehicles. Otherwise, you'd have an amalgam of incompatible state-based standards that would severely hinder development and deployment. (California's stricter emissions standards being the only exception I'm aware of.) What's wrong with that?
...they're just adding this to their list of technology transfers they require of lots of companies. Within 20 years, max, we'll truly start to appreciate the damage we've done by giving China a monopoly on manufacturing.
That makes it even worse! If this decision had been made, say, 8 years ago it might make a tiny bit of sense, but 2 YEARS ago!!! That is eye-wateringly stupid!
...just whoindahell could be dumb enough to think that Windows phone would ever last? Hell, us North Georgia Rednecks(TM) stayed away from them in droves! Christ, that one sale must have been half of all Windows phone sales. What maroons!!
Let's start with the operative sentence: "...doesn't keep attackers out, the renewed focus on logging aids flagging and detection. It's a baseline step that helps remediation and response after an attack is over, or if it persists long-term..." Really? Gee - thanks, Mister! After the damage is done - long-term, BTW -we'll have logs! Logs solve everything! Dumbass....
Just the fact that you are justifying MURDER tells us all we need to know about you. Sadly, yes, in my old-fart experience, delusional, paranoid, hard-right extremists who can just make shit up (or, hear/see it on Fox and talk radio) and believe it like it's Holy Gospel are MUCH more common than earlier and makes me really, really glad that I am on old fart so that by the time your type of Idiocracy spreads too much further, I'll be gone and won't have to see it.
Look, you BC guys want to have your little fantasies about "alt-currencies"? Go right ahead. Do NOT, however, think that BC will ever be any kind of true money (legal tender). It's 100% pure, organic, dolphin-free gambling. Sure, today, I can agree with a barber, say, to cut my hair in exchange for non-currency. It's known as barter. Barter, however, is even better in that there is something of value being exchanged. What's BC? Some algorithm generated on a Chinese server-farm. Woo-hoo! Suckers, apparently, are born every nano-second.
... they pinky-swear that they have changed. Bullshit! If they ever have a chance to do anything similar and it will make them money, they'll do it. I've been MS-free for years and it's been a real joy to convert so many family and friends to it. Plus, BTW, I no longer get calls from them about the latest thing that Windows is doing. Great!!
...country. C'mon! What did you expect?!? Ever since we (America) gave all of our manufacturing (and engineering, design, etc.) to Communist China, we've been transferring our Sovereignty to them. And I include Apple, etc. in that category axs they caved so easily in their "Privacy" concerns in exchange for Chinese $$$.
Likewise Ford. I have a 2002 Ranger and only got one key when I bought the truck, so I went to the dealer to have an additional made. No dice. You must have 2 keys before they will cut a new one. If I lose that one key, it must be towed to the dealer as any attempt to bypass it will result in bricking the truck. Minimum charge (not counting the tow)? $300. Obviously, had I known, I would have bought a different make. Fuck Ford.
OK, rather burn a mod point and not be able to comment, I'll comment. You are falling into the classic trap of "purity". By your measure, child porn - to use another extreme example - would be allowed. Likewise, ISIS beheading and recruiting videos... In the same way that I have the freedom to travel within America (leaving aside the 100-mile Customs area) at will, there are limits on routes, maximum speeds, seat-belt requirements, etc. to which I must adhere. According to your logic, any of those limits are "OH NO! My FREEDOM is GONE!!". Very stupid, mate.
That was my first Linux install, soon to be followed by Slackware, then Mandrake. At that time Mandrake (and SuSE) had the absolute BEST interfaces going, though - in true Linux/UNIX fashion - they were entirely incompatible. :-) Think AIX's SMIT vs SCO's or Sun's UI experience.
" They've basically built a company populated with rabid malcontents that are prepared to harm or kill their cow-orkers." Jeezus Horatio Christ! How in Da Fuck(TM) did THIS piece get modded +5?!?! I know this is /., but THIS kind of mindless drivel that gets modded +5 is EXACTLY why I spend more time on ArsTechnica than here. Their level of discourse - very sadly!! - is 100X greater than here. As a six-digiter, you guys have sunk way low.
Dude, you're "thinking" is fucked up and shows that you are obviously a hyper-partisan. I'm a Bernie fan, but in my career I've hired well over a hundred people. Never once did any political leanings come into the interview or any subsequent review. I had one guy who was an anti-tax radical (sadly, he went to jail and I had to replace him), a gay guy who was "Out" and proud of it. We all loved the guy. I hired gun owners and gun haters. NONE of that had anything to do with job performance which is the ONLY thing that any real boss cares about. If you (or Google or anyone) is hiring for PC reasons of any stripe, you should resign immediately as you are not worthy of any management role. Period.
Back when I went to CDI in the mid-70's, in a class of 28, there was ONE woman and zero blacks. Was it because CDI was racist/sexist? Hell, no! At the time, DG, DEC, etc., with whom I interviewed, all made me an offer and each also said "If only you were a black woman, you'd be perfect!" At that time, these companies were trying - on their own - to hire more women and minorities. Sadly, due 100% IMO to cultural factors, the pool was shallow as hell. Fast forward and more women and blacks are participating more today, but nowhere near where they need to be to make up for the decades lost. It'll all shake it out in time, but women and blacks need to get onto the damned field!
The GE nuclear plants under construction that are being halted due to severe cost overruns in South Carolina and Georgia will saddle the taxpayers with close to $10B in loan guarantees from the government. Crickets from the Conservatives on this, but...Gasp!...Solar or other Green (read: "Liberal") stuff? Noooooo!!!!
OK, the use of BTC to transfer currencies from failing states like Venezuela I get. However, what I see is a lot more folks treating it as a gamble on its value rising inexorably - nothing more. With a hard limit of 21M BTCs and no underlying "store of value", I can't see it being anything but a scam. Having said that, the underlying blockchain tech has tremendous potential for "normal" purposes.
WTF is the underlying value behind BTC (or Ethereum, etc.) other than its own artificially created scarcity? Gold, cars, jewelry and other "investments" have value whether it's aesthetic or whatever, so can usually be enjoyed in some fashion while you own it. And real American $$ have the advantage of being - you know - legal tender for all debts, public and private" so is immensely useful/valuable. BTC, from all I can see, is just fools gambling. What am I missing?