So apparently some people are incapable of understanding basic legalities or doing basic research before publishing.
While some are interpreting this development as the demise of the MP3 format
We can safely blacklist anyone who ran a story where this was presented as a fact or even a likelihood. Until something better takes the world by storm, the patent expiration will only help the format become more widely available.
Nice chance to see where there is more noise than signal though.
Someone didn't read the entire article. They were way over the line.
Because if you read the article, it was clearly both very inappropriate and targeted behavior:
The founders and other employees are accused of speaking “sexually” about female employees right to their face, and one employee would, allegedly, talk about having “a boner” and going to the bathroom to “rub one out” in order to maintain focus.
Making unwanted sexual comments directly to someone is the textbook definition of sexual harassment. Masturbating on company time is just over the top.
If their director of social media is acting like a retarded frat boy and encouraging the same in others, he needs to go. If the company gets hit with a lawsuit because they couldn't figure that out on their own, well, too bad.
There is polite or formal speech, which is what professionals should use unless they are certain that casual communication is appropriate.
If one of the primary purposes of college is to prepare young adults for employment, then enforcing "office manners" is a reasonable measure.
Using text shorthand in an email is on par with wearing a T-shirt to an interview. It's not illegal, and it may be acceptable in some circumstances---but in most cases it is not wise.
This whole "updating" merry-go-round is just a symptom of our sickness as a culture.
It's not a sickness to realize that there are better options available for a lower price.
If they couldn't figure out how to make it cheaper, easier to use, and more durable in the last 20 years then maybe they don't deserve any money anymore.
The keyboards on those things are worse than Blackberries, and there is no need for dedicated hardware when there are web apps and smartphone apps with comparable functionality.
Anyone who does math for a living has access to better tools anyway, be it MatLab, SAP, or another professional application.
The TI calculators are primarily tools for instruction these days, and they are no longer the best option.
b) Commuter rail, light rail and subways often do not have cellular service antenna's pointed at them
Netflix can cache videos for offline viewing.
c) Who the hell watches netflix on these stupid "3GB" caps wireless companies offer
Netflix is part of BingeOn from T-Mobile, which means it doesn't count toward the cap. If you even have one anymore---remember that everyone is rushing to offer unlimited plans again.
Also, you can download over wifi and watch later. This feature has been out for months now, and it probably a big part of the reason that the studios don't want Netflix on rooted devices.
Chromebooks are cheap, and you can guarantee internet access in a fixed location like a typical American school.
Most schools gravitate toward the cheapest thing that gets the job done.
There will always be well-funded schools experimenting with new gadgets, but most places can't afford them. Especially when the bill comes in for their sporting equipment and facilities.
They don't need to bother putting it on the Windows Store.
The Windows Store is about getting a piece of the revenue from app sales. They already get 100% of the Office revenue. Plus, they get that sweet subscription revenue from Office365.
If the Windows Store security model ever gets locked down to the point where desktop apps cannot share storage with Store apps, then they'll need to put Office in the Store. Until then, there's no need---and, more importantly, they don't get more money out of it.
SecureBoot isn't designed primarily to stop BIOS malware. It is designed to prevent rootkits from tampering with the boot sector and OS bootstrap by validating the signatures on all executables it loads. That way, you know you have a good kernel before you hand off to it. Technically, a rootkit could still infect those files, but the system will not boot again after that happens.
RedHat has a signed bootloader that works with most OEM PCs out of the box, and you can import the keys for other distros if they choose to sign their binaries.
If you compile from source (either manually or by installing Gentoo), then you must handle the signing yourself or disable SecureBoot.
I'm still struggling to understand the use case for this.
Everyone who really needed Windows and Linux on one box has already setup dual-boot or virtualization. You can even pick which OS to use on bare metal and which to virtualize these days. It's great.
Does Microsoft envision themselves selling Linux apps in the Windows Store (like they sell MySQL and PostgreSQL on Azure)? I don't see that working because anyone can distribute a free version outside of the store.
Telemetry in Windows 7/8/10 proves that Microsoft is perfectly willing to sell out their customers for a marginal benefit. But I don't really see what benefit WSL gives them that they don't already get with Hyper-V.
Now that they found a way to charge for it, they are totally jumping on the bandwagon.
Sarcasm aside, this could be good if they contribute code for better performance or scalability to the projects. Then again, their code could be so tightly coupled to the Azure infrastructure that it is useless to anyone else. I don't really follow those projects to know if that's happening though.
Since this technology is fundamentally incompatible with regular paper, it is going to be an expensive niche product.
They talk about making the plastic sheets reusable, which is the only way I see this technology being generally useful. But then they have to worry about printing onto used, degraded media.
Since Russia is run by a wannabe dictator, I am pretty sure they will continue to engage in blame-worthy behavior until he dies or gets replaced. And the next may be just as bad.
Russia tampers with our politics, and China goes for our technology and industry. With our technology being worth way more than our politicians, I'm worried that China is playing the smarter game.
But neither one of them is going to stop, and pretending otherwise is great way to surrender our self-determination to foreigners.
I have three USB-C devices (two phones and a tablet), and it is 50/50 whether they will fast-charge with any given USB-C cable or AC adapter.
All of them will charge slowly, at least. I don't know if the spec is flawed or if there is just a lot of non-conformant equipment available.
I wish they had included USB-C, but I can appreciate that they don't want to deal with early adopter headaches in a mainstream product. The Dell XPS seems to have one though, so at least some companies are willing to take a chance.
If you have no license, you can face an immediate injunction---which forces you to stop selling the infringing product. This makes GPLv2 very risky for businesses, as any non-compliance could force them to pull a product until they relicense the code. If your revenue relies on subscribers or SLAs, it could hurt very badly.
The GPLv3 reduces that risk by allowing a grace period. This allows a licensee time to correct oversights or minor transgressions.
E.g., documentation says that full source is available at a particular URL, but that URL does not resolve. The vendor can update the docs or redirect that URL easily enough. Under GPLv3, this can happen without immediately and automatically invalidating their license.
If you want enterprises to use and contribute GPL'd code, this is a reasonable concession to eliminate some potentially serious legal issues. The clause still allows the invalidation of licenses for willful non-compliance.
I might intercept HTTP requests to install signed patch 1.4.8 and return signed patch 1.1.1 (a downgrade to a version with a known vulnerability) instead of the requested file.
This sounds insanely stupid.
Most patch and definition files include dates and/or versions, which are part of the signed files. You cannot simply send a version 1.1 patch rebadged as 1.4 to a 1.2 client and expect it to install. Changing the version invalidates the signature.
Long story short, I think there's still a role for HTTPS even when you're checking for patch signatures.
There is no discernible benefit unless the developer/vendor is a total moron. Digital signatures ensure the contents have no been tampered with---and that is from the date the files are signed until the present, not just while they are being transferred.
Maybe they get some bonus points if they use HTTPS, but they straight up fail if they do not digitally sign all updates.
The original article was written by some numbskull who obviously never worked a day in information security.
Satellites in geostationary orbit are about 500-600 ms, with most of that time being due to the bounce out to orbit and back.
Since these satellites are 1/30 of the distance (~1200 km vs ~35000 km), the ping time should drop significantly.
Light traveling in a vacuum (or through the atmosphere) is noticeably faster than light in a fiber optic cable. And sat-to-sat links are straight lines, whereas fiber gets laid wherever there are rights of ways---so the satellite mesh may offer superior latency for some routes.
All things considered, this really sounds doable. Replacing hundreds of satellites every year would have been an inconceivably expensive cost just a few years ago. But with cheaper launches, smaller satellites, and a potential global market... I would say that this approach makes more sense today than geostationary satellites. As long as there is enough demand to keep lifting new hardware.
There is this thing called age-related hearing loss. By the time they're in their 30s and 40s, most people will be lucky to hear 15 KHz. It is not uncommon to have healthy adults who are unable to hear above 10K-12K.
Do you care to adjust your opinion in light of reality? Because you can google this if you don't want to take my word for it. Age-related hearing loss, aka presbyacusis, is very much an established fact.
Apparently, they are going to use phased arrays to track the satellites, so jitter should only be a real concern once every half-hour or so when it switches satellites.
I wouldn't call it a simple problem, but each piece of the puzzle is relatively well-understood now.
Getting a fleet of satellites into orbit will be expensive, but being a launch company takes some of the sting out of that.
Still, with a fleet of 4K satellites and 5- to 7-year lifespans, they will need to replace hundreds of satellites annually. They need some serious economies of scale for this to work.
There are a number of benefits to 64-bit support on Intel-compatible hardware besides the extra available memory:
1. More effective ASLR = better security
2. More and larger registers = better performance, although this does depend on what the compiler can do with your code
3. Guaranteed NX support = better security and/or less platform segmentation (depending on whether or not you used it in 32-bit code)
4. Guaranteed RIP and SSE/SSE2 support = greater performance and/or fewer code branches due to modern features always being present (aka, finally dump some of that legacy crap)
Mylan has facilities across Europe. And India. And the Middle East, Africa, and the South Pacific.
That said, I have no idea where EpiPens specifically are made. I'd be surprised if there is only one facility, as most pharmas like to have multiple sources for each product.
If the government price is profitable, they'll end up making it.
And if they claim it can't be made profitably, maybe the government should auction off the patent. The auction winner can then supply the government at the listed price, or else return the patent.
I also fail to see how a single-payer somewhere in Europe or elsewhere could nationalize a company based in the U.S. like Mylan.
It's almost like you're completely unaware of history. When the facilities and tools are in those countries, they declare their intent and back it up with armed forces. If the foreign company doesn't like it, they have to convince their government to do something about it.
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So apparently some people are incapable of understanding basic legalities or doing basic research before publishing.
While some are interpreting this development as the demise of the MP3 format
We can safely blacklist anyone who ran a story where this was presented as a fact or even a likelihood. Until something better takes the world by storm, the patent expiration will only help the format become more widely available.
Nice chance to see where there is more noise than signal though.
Someone didn't read the entire article. They were way over the line.
Because if you read the article, it was clearly both very inappropriate and targeted behavior:
The founders and other employees are accused of speaking “sexually” about female employees right to their face, and one employee would, allegedly, talk about having “a boner” and going to the bathroom to “rub one out” in order to maintain focus.
Making unwanted sexual comments directly to someone is the textbook definition of sexual harassment. Masturbating on company time is just over the top.
If their director of social media is acting like a retarded frat boy and encouraging the same in others, he needs to go. If the company gets hit with a lawsuit because they couldn't figure that out on their own, well, too bad.
Chrome is probably not your problem.
I am on an older machine right now with an i3, 4 GB, and 30+ open tabs. Scrolling works fine on all of the sites I have open.
This is temporary setup though, so I don't have any plugins. But it does show that vanilla Chrome offers tolerable performance on old hardware.
There are a lot of things it could be---outdated video drivers, plugins, antimalware, to name a few---but your situation is very much an outlier.
It'll be a smaller install over all (less SxS crud)
For the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that the SxS crud will only be removed if DISM is run with the /cleanup-image option.
On Windows 7, KB2852386 must be installed to run the cleanup from the GUI.
Windows 8 and newer include a scheduled task which does this automatically every 30 days.
That is all true yet irrelevant.
There is polite or formal speech, which is what professionals should use unless they are certain that casual communication is appropriate.
If one of the primary purposes of college is to prepare young adults for employment, then enforcing "office manners" is a reasonable measure.
Using text shorthand in an email is on par with wearing a T-shirt to an interview. It's not illegal, and it may be acceptable in some circumstances---but in most cases it is not wise.
This whole "updating" merry-go-round is just a symptom of our sickness as a culture.
It's not a sickness to realize that there are better options available for a lower price.
If they couldn't figure out how to make it cheaper, easier to use, and more durable in the last 20 years then maybe they don't deserve any money anymore.
The keyboards on those things are worse than Blackberries, and there is no need for dedicated hardware when there are web apps and smartphone apps with comparable functionality.
Anyone who does math for a living has access to better tools anyway, be it MatLab, SAP, or another professional application.
The TI calculators are primarily tools for instruction these days, and they are no longer the best option.
a) Low bandwidth in crowded spaces
Netflix can cache videos for offline viewing.
b) Commuter rail, light rail and subways often do not have cellular service antenna's pointed at them
Netflix can cache videos for offline viewing.
c) Who the hell watches netflix on these stupid "3GB" caps wireless companies offer
Netflix is part of BingeOn from T-Mobile, which means it doesn't count toward the cap. If you even have one anymore---remember that everyone is rushing to offer unlimited plans again.
Also, you can download over wifi and watch later. This feature has been out for months now, and it probably a big part of the reason that the studios don't want Netflix on rooted devices.
Chromebooks are cheap, and you can guarantee internet access in a fixed location like a typical American school.
Most schools gravitate toward the cheapest thing that gets the job done.
There will always be well-funded schools experimenting with new gadgets, but most places can't afford them. Especially when the bill comes in for their sporting equipment and facilities.
They don't need to bother putting it on the Windows Store.
The Windows Store is about getting a piece of the revenue from app sales. They already get 100% of the Office revenue. Plus, they get that sweet subscription revenue from Office365.
If the Windows Store security model ever gets locked down to the point where desktop apps cannot share storage with Store apps, then they'll need to put Office in the Store. Until then, there's no need---and, more importantly, they don't get more money out of it.
SecureBoot isn't designed primarily to stop BIOS malware. It is designed to prevent rootkits from tampering with the boot sector and OS bootstrap by validating the signatures on all executables it loads. That way, you know you have a good kernel before you hand off to it. Technically, a rootkit could still infect those files, but the system will not boot again after that happens.
RedHat has a signed bootloader that works with most OEM PCs out of the box, and you can import the keys for other distros if they choose to sign their binaries.
If you compile from source (either manually or by installing Gentoo), then you must handle the signing yourself or disable SecureBoot.
Yes, but this is CLOUD-ENABLED.
I'm still struggling to understand the use case for this.
Everyone who really needed Windows and Linux on one box has already setup dual-boot or virtualization. You can even pick which OS to use on bare metal and which to virtualize these days. It's great.
Does Microsoft envision themselves selling Linux apps in the Windows Store (like they sell MySQL and PostgreSQL on Azure)? I don't see that working because anyone can distribute a free version outside of the store.
Telemetry in Windows 7/8/10 proves that Microsoft is perfectly willing to sell out their customers for a marginal benefit. But I don't really see what benefit WSL gives them that they don't already get with Hyper-V.
Now that they found a way to charge for it, they are totally jumping on the bandwagon.
Sarcasm aside, this could be good if they contribute code for better performance or scalability to the projects. Then again, their code could be so tightly coupled to the Azure infrastructure that it is useless to anyone else. I don't really follow those projects to know if that's happening though.
Since this technology is fundamentally incompatible with regular paper, it is going to be an expensive niche product.
They talk about making the plastic sheets reusable, which is the only way I see this technology being generally useful. But then they have to worry about printing onto used, degraded media.
Since Russia is run by a wannabe dictator, I am pretty sure they will continue to engage in blame-worthy behavior until he dies or gets replaced. And the next may be just as bad.
Russia tampers with our politics, and China goes for our technology and industry. With our technology being worth way more than our politicians, I'm worried that China is playing the smarter game.
But neither one of them is going to stop, and pretending otherwise is great way to surrender our self-determination to foreigners.
I have three USB-C devices (two phones and a tablet), and it is 50/50 whether they will fast-charge with any given USB-C cable or AC adapter.
All of them will charge slowly, at least. I don't know if the spec is flawed or if there is just a lot of non-conformant equipment available.
I wish they had included USB-C, but I can appreciate that they don't want to deal with early adopter headaches in a mainstream product. The Dell XPS seems to have one though, so at least some companies are willing to take a chance.
It's a compromise for practical reasons.
If you have no license, you can face an immediate injunction---which forces you to stop selling the infringing product. This makes GPLv2 very risky for businesses, as any non-compliance could force them to pull a product until they relicense the code. If your revenue relies on subscribers or SLAs, it could hurt very badly.
The GPLv3 reduces that risk by allowing a grace period. This allows a licensee time to correct oversights or minor transgressions.
E.g., documentation says that full source is available at a particular URL, but that URL does not resolve. The vendor can update the docs or redirect that URL easily enough. Under GPLv3, this can happen without immediately and automatically invalidating their license.
If you want enterprises to use and contribute GPL'd code, this is a reasonable concession to eliminate some potentially serious legal issues. The clause still allows the invalidation of licenses for willful non-compliance.
I might intercept HTTP requests to install signed patch 1.4.8 and return signed patch 1.1.1 (a downgrade to a version with a known vulnerability) instead of the requested file.
This sounds insanely stupid.
Most patch and definition files include dates and/or versions, which are part of the signed files. You cannot simply send a version 1.1 patch rebadged as 1.4 to a 1.2 client and expect it to install. Changing the version invalidates the signature.
Long story short, I think there's still a role for HTTPS even when you're checking for patch signatures.
There is no discernible benefit unless the developer/vendor is a total moron. Digital signatures ensure the contents have no been tampered with---and that is from the date the files are signed until the present, not just while they are being transferred.
Maybe they get some bonus points if they use HTTPS, but they straight up fail if they do not digitally sign all updates.
The original article was written by some numbskull who obviously never worked a day in information security.
Satellites in geostationary orbit are about 500-600 ms, with most of that time being due to the bounce out to orbit and back.
Since these satellites are 1/30 of the distance (~1200 km vs ~35000 km), the ping time should drop significantly.
Light traveling in a vacuum (or through the atmosphere) is noticeably faster than light in a fiber optic cable. And sat-to-sat links are straight lines, whereas fiber gets laid wherever there are rights of ways---so the satellite mesh may offer superior latency for some routes.
All things considered, this really sounds doable. Replacing hundreds of satellites every year would have been an inconceivably expensive cost just a few years ago. But with cheaper launches, smaller satellites, and a potential global market... I would say that this approach makes more sense today than geostationary satellites. As long as there is enough demand to keep lifting new hardware.
There is this thing called age-related hearing loss. By the time they're in their 30s and 40s, most people will be lucky to hear 15 KHz. It is not uncommon to have healthy adults who are unable to hear above 10K-12K.
Do you care to adjust your opinion in light of reality? Because you can google this if you don't want to take my word for it. Age-related hearing loss, aka presbyacusis, is very much an established fact.
Apparently, they are going to use phased arrays to track the satellites, so jitter should only be a real concern once every half-hour or so when it switches satellites.
I wouldn't call it a simple problem, but each piece of the puzzle is relatively well-understood now.
Getting a fleet of satellites into orbit will be expensive, but being a launch company takes some of the sting out of that.
Still, with a fleet of 4K satellites and 5- to 7-year lifespans, they will need to replace hundreds of satellites annually. They need some serious economies of scale for this to work.
Not really. I don't think 25-50 ms is that bad, and I've played online with far worse.
There are a number of benefits to 64-bit support on Intel-compatible hardware besides the extra available memory:
1. More effective ASLR = better security
2. More and larger registers = better performance, although this does depend on what the compiler can do with your code
3. Guaranteed NX support = better security and/or less platform segmentation (depending on whether or not you used it in 32-bit code)
4. Guaranteed RIP and SSE/SSE2 support = greater performance and/or fewer code branches due to modern features always being present (aka, finally dump some of that legacy crap)
Mylan has facilities across Europe. And India. And the Middle East, Africa, and the South Pacific.
That said, I have no idea where EpiPens specifically are made. I'd be surprised if there is only one facility, as most pharmas like to have multiple sources for each product.
So if the company says "we'll leave it"
Maybe as a negotiation tactic.
If the government price is profitable, they'll end up making it.
And if they claim it can't be made profitably, maybe the government should auction off the patent. The auction winner can then supply the government at the listed price, or else return the patent.
I also fail to see how a single-payer somewhere in Europe or elsewhere could nationalize a company based in the U.S. like Mylan.
It's almost like you're completely unaware of history. When the facilities and tools are in those countries, they declare their intent and back it up with armed forces. If the foreign company doesn't like it, they have to convince their government to do something about it.
Hell, Venezuela just did it again last week.