Enough of the world has the capability that we need to be on top of it. Let's posit, just for the sake of argument, that only China and Russia have this ability -- that's still several times the population of the U.S. that can be tapped for researchers. That's not "most of the rest of the world", but it is over a billion people and thus my argument still holds.
The USSR, and now Russia, has had a biological weapons program for almost a century. Like their nuclear power, they have massively fucked up and attempted to bury it. Do you really think they've shifted all that research funding and brainpower over to domesticating foxes or something?
I'm not an Applehead, and don't see why you would think I am. I own zero Apple products, and haven't for over ten years. Also, I said the user should be informed of the change, per your point A, and I explained why "user-selectable" is out. "Do you want to slow down, or do you want to hard crash?" is not a choice the user needs, and it also isn't the sort of support nightmare Apple (or anyone else) needs.
The rest of the world didn't care about the ban, and neither would domestic terrorists, so it's not really like we're any less safe than before. This should, in theory, allow us to find the "low-hanging fruit" as far as lethal modifications is concerned. Since that's very likely where malicious actors would look, we should be looking too. Only then can we plan a defense against them.
It's not just battery life, it's the fact that due to internal resistance, older batteries can't deliver as much current even when they are adequately charged. This causes the phone to crash and restart, even if the battery is at 40% charge, because it has enough power but cannot deliver it fast enough.
While it would be nice to get a warning about the battery condition harming performance, there really isn't a better technical way to deal with the problem of mediocre battery condition (other than replacement of course).
Yet, there were movies starring real actors about fake actors making fake movies.
This sounds stupid on the face of it, and has certainly been used badly, but there are some great films based on this premise. Bowfinger and A Serbian Film both come to mind, as vastly different as they are, and I can't really imagine either one having chosen a better trope to start from.
It seemed pretty clear to me. Most devices run at some predictable speed, but as they age, they get "binned" into speed steps. That's why it's not just a tail to the left, but a series of peaks.
I'm not arguing that. I'm saying that if an airport is going to have de-icing machines with the intent of keeping operations going in freezing weather, then it damn well should have enough of them to continue operations. Of course there will be delays, but in this case the delays were so long that the airport was non-functional and would have been better off just ceasing operations as soon as the problem became evident. Either have enough de-icing stations to do the job and keep things sort of moving, or don't have any. In between measures just delayed the inevitable, and cost money.
Remember, this is also the country whose toilets make fake flushing noises. Everything is about appearances. Putting your name on a list at a funeral "proves" you care so much , you will do the absolute minimum socially necessary.
Either none if keeping the airport operating below freezing is not important, or as many as airports further north that freeze frequently. Doing things by halves was as good as useless, and costs far more than doing nothing. Go big or stay home.
The procedural generators are pretty damn good. I can take the chords from an existing song, have Band In A Box generate a backing track along with two or three procedurally generated melodies, and two or three generated solos, and selectively stitch together my favorite pieces without changing a note. It will come off as cheesy because of a shortage of inflection, but you would most likely accept it as a "proof" of a human-composed piece.
The problem with the procedural generators isn't that they can't get things right, it's that they are unaware of when they get it wrong. That's something they still require a human to do, but how long is this phase going to last? So far it has lasted 20-something years, but I don't think it will last another 20-something.
Shared alarm codes can be procedurally generated. If the procedure incorporates a time element (such as the current month), then it will automatically change as well. Sure it's security by obscurity, but it does mean that in this case you'd just have to say "It's December now, remember?" or something along those lines. To an attacker, that just indicates you change your codes every month, and won't directly give them entry. If she still "can't remember" something you've been doing for years, then I'd have to reach her by other channels before I'd transmit that information (unless she used the "panic phrase").
Panic phrases have to be changed after any publicly observable use, of course. For the "pay a bill right now" case, a panic phrase would be a good step as well. If the "boss" doesn't say it, don't perform the request.
If you're suspicious and want to confirm it, you'd turn around and call him back, wouldn't you? Right now, it's a lot easier to spoof a call to you than to intercept calls going to your boss's house, but how long will that remain the case? Once the spoofers can spoof the confirmation too, it's all over.
Would an analog VGA signal at full resolution be close enough? You can sometimes escape through the analog hole still. I have an HDMI-to-VGA dongle that reports itself HDMI-compliant. Since it's pushing analog out the other end, it obviously is not compliant, but all that matters is that it says it is. It cost me less than $10 and is not marketed as having this ability.
They've already got their fingers in the American pie and the EU pie, and have hit the point of diminishing returns on investment. Time to buy a piece of the Chinese government! Sadly, Google manipulating Chinese authorities in its own self-interest might actually be an improvement for the public.
Amazon may have as well, but YouTube has definitely passed its "Best Used By" date. Now they're all about bringing in that ad revenue, including extending the middle finger to longtime contributors simply because the advertisers would prefer to go in another direction. The sooner they fade into irrelevance (I don't think they'll die any time soon), the sooner we'll have to come up with an alternative or three.
I've done "random notes" -- specifically, I set out to mimic the style of the Crazy Bus theme. But the only reason it holds together and isn't just an annoying series of blips is because of the bass line and the drums, neither of which are random. The thing about random is that it will never improve on its own.
You can squeeze Windows 10 onto a 16 GB SSD, although it will basically require "wipe and start over" with each major update because there won't be enough room to download, unpack, and patch. It's a maintenance nightmare, but it can be done. 32 GB works fine, even when provisioning for a page file. Beyond that, storage needs to match what you intend to install and store. It's not Windows taking it all.
I've told people to pick an innocuous video, preferably one owned by Google itself, and flag it out of existence. When it goes down, move on to another one. With a little organized and repeated action, maybe we can make the point that crowd "wisdom" is actually trolling in a lot of cases. It is a mistake to assume that people are not colluding to break the content removal mechanism, so let's prove it on something they actually care about. They sure as fuck don't care when it's Cody or Joerg Sprave or Thegn Thrand.
This still increases costs considerably above the used mobile home market prices in normal circumstances, so people who could ordinarily afford to replace theirs, now cannot.
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Enough of the world has the capability that we need to be on top of it. Let's posit, just for the sake of argument, that only China and Russia have this ability -- that's still several times the population of the U.S. that can be tapped for researchers. That's not "most of the rest of the world", but it is over a billion people and thus my argument still holds.
The USSR, and now Russia, has had a biological weapons program for almost a century. Like their nuclear power, they have massively fucked up and attempted to bury it. Do you really think they've shifted all that research funding and brainpower over to domesticating foxes or something?
I'm not an Applehead, and don't see why you would think I am. I own zero Apple products, and haven't for over ten years. Also, I said the user should be informed of the change, per your point A, and I explained why "user-selectable" is out. "Do you want to slow down, or do you want to hard crash?" is not a choice the user needs, and it also isn't the sort of support nightmare Apple (or anyone else) needs.
The rest of the world didn't care about the ban, and neither would domestic terrorists, so it's not really like we're any less safe than before. This should, in theory, allow us to find the "low-hanging fruit" as far as lethal modifications is concerned. Since that's very likely where malicious actors would look, we should be looking too. Only then can we plan a defense against them.
It's not just battery life, it's the fact that due to internal resistance, older batteries can't deliver as much current even when they are adequately charged. This causes the phone to crash and restart, even if the battery is at 40% charge, because it has enough power but cannot deliver it fast enough.
While it would be nice to get a warning about the battery condition harming performance, there really isn't a better technical way to deal with the problem of mediocre battery condition (other than replacement of course).
Yet, there were movies starring real actors about fake actors making fake movies.
This sounds stupid on the face of it, and has certainly been used badly, but there are some great films based on this premise. Bowfinger and A Serbian Film both come to mind, as vastly different as they are, and I can't really imagine either one having chosen a better trope to start from.
It seemed pretty clear to me. Most devices run at some predictable speed, but as they age, they get "binned" into speed steps. That's why it's not just a tail to the left, but a series of peaks.
It is racist to only test black people for sickle cell. The condition is common to areas outside Africa where malaria is still prevalent, you know.
I'm not arguing that. I'm saying that if an airport is going to have de-icing machines with the intent of keeping operations going in freezing weather, then it damn well should have enough of them to continue operations. Of course there will be delays, but in this case the delays were so long that the airport was non-functional and would have been better off just ceasing operations as soon as the problem became evident. Either have enough de-icing stations to do the job and keep things sort of moving, or don't have any. In between measures just delayed the inevitable, and cost money.
Remember, this is also the country whose toilets make fake flushing noises. Everything is about appearances. Putting your name on a list at a funeral "proves" you care so much , you will do the absolute minimum socially necessary.
Either none if keeping the airport operating below freezing is not important, or as many as airports further north that freeze frequently. Doing things by halves was as good as useless, and costs far more than doing nothing. Go big or stay home.
The procedural generators are pretty damn good. I can take the chords from an existing song, have Band In A Box generate a backing track along with two or three procedurally generated melodies, and two or three generated solos, and selectively stitch together my favorite pieces without changing a note. It will come off as cheesy because of a shortage of inflection, but you would most likely accept it as a "proof" of a human-composed piece.
The problem with the procedural generators isn't that they can't get things right, it's that they are unaware of when they get it wrong. That's something they still require a human to do, but how long is this phase going to last? So far it has lasted 20-something years, but I don't think it will last another 20-something.
Why not look at some contemporary writings from those days? While certainly exaggerated for dramatic effect, they weren't science fiction.
Shared alarm codes can be procedurally generated. If the procedure incorporates a time element (such as the current month), then it will automatically change as well. Sure it's security by obscurity, but it does mean that in this case you'd just have to say "It's December now, remember?" or something along those lines. To an attacker, that just indicates you change your codes every month, and won't directly give them entry. If she still "can't remember" something you've been doing for years, then I'd have to reach her by other channels before I'd transmit that information (unless she used the "panic phrase").
Panic phrases have to be changed after any publicly observable use, of course. For the "pay a bill right now" case, a panic phrase would be a good step as well. If the "boss" doesn't say it, don't perform the request.
If you're suspicious and want to confirm it, you'd turn around and call him back, wouldn't you? Right now, it's a lot easier to spoof a call to you than to intercept calls going to your boss's house, but how long will that remain the case? Once the spoofers can spoof the confirmation too, it's all over.
In theory, no, but in practice -- sort of.
Would an analog VGA signal at full resolution be close enough? You can sometimes escape through the analog hole still. I have an HDMI-to-VGA dongle that reports itself HDMI-compliant. Since it's pushing analog out the other end, it obviously is not compliant, but all that matters is that it says it is. It cost me less than $10 and is not marketed as having this ability.
Sorry, DVI is electrically and signal-compatible with HDMI, and supports HDCP. You'll have to dump that too.
The plugin downloads U2 albums.
With or without you.
They've already got their fingers in the American pie and the EU pie, and have hit the point of diminishing returns on investment. Time to buy a piece of the Chinese government! Sadly, Google manipulating Chinese authorities in its own self-interest might actually be an improvement for the public.
Amazon may have as well, but YouTube has definitely passed its "Best Used By" date. Now they're all about bringing in that ad revenue, including extending the middle finger to longtime contributors simply because the advertisers would prefer to go in another direction. The sooner they fade into irrelevance (I don't think they'll die any time soon), the sooner we'll have to come up with an alternative or three.
YouTube should die in a Fire(TV).
Actually, what it reminds me of is Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, but with a drummer thrown in, and somehow less interesting.
I've done "random notes" -- specifically, I set out to mimic the style of the Crazy Bus theme. But the only reason it holds together and isn't just an annoying series of blips is because of the bass line and the drums, neither of which are random. The thing about random is that it will never improve on its own.
You can squeeze Windows 10 onto a 16 GB SSD, although it will basically require "wipe and start over" with each major update because there won't be enough room to download, unpack, and patch. It's a maintenance nightmare, but it can be done. 32 GB works fine, even when provisioning for a page file. Beyond that, storage needs to match what you intend to install and store. It's not Windows taking it all.
Don't believe me? You don't have to.
I think the actual reason is that he was worried about crashing his rocket... with no survivors. Now was, in fact, the time for fear.
I've told people to pick an innocuous video, preferably one owned by Google itself, and flag it out of existence. When it goes down, move on to another one. With a little organized and repeated action, maybe we can make the point that crowd "wisdom" is actually trolling in a lot of cases. It is a mistake to assume that people are not colluding to break the content removal mechanism, so let's prove it on something they actually care about. They sure as fuck don't care when it's Cody or Joerg Sprave or Thegn Thrand.
This still increases costs considerably above the used mobile home market prices in normal circumstances, so people who could ordinarily afford to replace theirs, now cannot.