Forward this parent to a company that can do the data recovery, at whatever cost -- whether it's hundreds of thousands, or millions. He'll complain, but then Apple responds "That's what it would cost us to do it, because that's how we would have to do it. Pay us or pay them, we don't work for free."
This would also work strongly toward the legal case here, saying "It's possible, just very expensive, and we have no intention of changing this."
I call bullshit. I've been to a fair number of trendy restaurants staffed by barely competent, hip young people who could burn water. In all of those cases, it was the competent, experienced, and utterly under-appreciated Mexican cooking staff that kept the place functional. When places like that go under, it's not the Mexicans that have a hard time finding the next job.
I didn't mean to imply the car's owner would power anything but their own residence in an outage, and I don't think anyone could reasonably be expecting them to do so. Obviously they'd want to power down major draws like air conditioning or appliances during such an event as well.
Having a battery powered vehicle attached to your electrical supply would actually help get you through the glitchy power. Although the extra load will make the problem worse in the short run, it will make a mild degree of unreliability easier to tolerate in the long run.
Oh yes, how dare they focus on things that effect users, like how long the battery in their laptop lasts, or their electric bills. The majority of users aren't seeing issues with CPU speed, so it is becoming less of a focus then other factors. Heaven forbid they focus on the consumer's needs.
If they could keep whipping the "faster, faster, faster" horse, they would. When the primary advantage of a new computer over an old one is that it takes less power and generates less heat, people don't see much pressure to upgrade. The old one still works just fine, even if the cost of operation is higher. This is not to say that pushing "smaller, cooler, quieter" is a bad thing for the world at large. It's obviously good. But it's not as good for Intel as pushing speed at all costs used to be. Therefore the conclusion has to be that they're doing it this way because as successful as the old way was for them, they can't make it work any longer.
The rate of revolutionary change really has slowed in the past decade or so. To me, the oldest laptops worth servicing and putting back into service are Merom-based machines from early-to-mid-2007. With two decent cores, a 4GB DDR2 RAM limit, and SATA (even if SATA I), they are hardly barn-burners (lap burners they are, though), but they still run fast enough, and have Aero-capable integrated graphics Windows 10 accepts without complaint (and displays on par with what's available today). For anything older than that, I generally would advise someone to transfer data and move on if it breaks. Even those older machines are still useful as movie players and such, though. They're just not worth patching up as they fall apart.
Part of this is not just the rate of change in the hardware, it's the type of change. Hardware has trended toward light and cool rather than fast and hot over the last decade, and software has been forced to accommodate the lack of net performance increase. Accordingly, a nine year old laptop may be bulky, hot, and short on battery life, but it still works. It may not be hip and trendy, but it gets the job done, fuck you very much.
Optical bay adapters are also insanely cheap (under $10) and can double nicely as removable storage. If you find yourself using the optical drive once every few years (if that), it's quite likely you'd be better served by replacing it with something you can actually use daily, and let the optical become the external drive.
The real refugees are running from the very same people that are blowing things up. They're not the problem. The problem is that there is no way to distinguish between those running from the chaos, and those running in to start the chaos.
So at some point it comes down to deciding who will pay the price of the instability in the Middle East -- the people who live there want to get away from it, but the problems sneak in amongst them. So do we turn everyone back and watch them die, or do we let them in and get blown up ourselves? Political will seems to be on taking some of the burden, but the popular opinion has never been unified and is undoubtedly going to get even more fragmented after an event like this.
Meanwhile, the governments involved want more power to spy on us, the people who haven't been blowing up airports, because it is too hard (next to impossible) to background check a flood of immigrants. It's security theater at its worst.
I don't have a good answer, it's really an unsolvable problem for someone. All that can really be handled is deciding who has to deal with it.
I don't think there is anything to be concerned about. They didn't engineer this bacterium, they discovered it. Yet we don't have a massive epidemic of credit-card-eating bacteria everywhere. Why? Probably because although they can eat it, it isn't their preferred food source. Now if someone knocks out some metabolic pathways so that they have to eat plastic to survive, then maybe we'll have something to worry about.
If they can make the crypto mathematically equivalent to a one-time pad, no amount of quantum computing is going to crack it since all messages of the correct length are equally valid. The key exchange itself would then have to be compromised, which would have a limited window of opportunity.
This is why I mentioned "execute-in-place" specifically. If RAM is provisioned for working data sets but programs can simply be dumped at any time (because the pointer goes to the storage, not to the RAM), then the flash would take less wear than currently. Rather than swapping things out, they just get flushed and re-read as necessary rather than the current paradigm of "load from disk, execute from RAM".
When will it become practical to eliminate the difference between temporary storage and long-term storage and just "execute in place", using RAM as a disk cache? It sounds like the speed is there already. If the storage is dangling off the memory controller rather than the PCIe controller, that would eliminate the worry about "lanes" as well.
This is analogous to U.S. authorities trying to order access to e-mail stored in Ireland, and Microsoft said no in that case. So the precedent has been set in motion, though the Microsoft case is far from decided. Facebook is playing a slightly different game though, because the user in question resides in the country making the request, whereas in Microsoft's case, the DoJ wants e-mails from an account that belongs to a non-American.
You know, the 8chan software has been really fucky since the whole Infinity Next debacle. I can't say what's normal. A couple days ago, the CAPTCHAs stopped showing up. We still had to do them, but there was no graphic displayed. The workaround came from/pol/, the first time I've ever found that bunch of Stormfront asswipes useful -- View Source, highlight the link to the image that wasn't showing up, and pull it up in another tab or window.
So I don't know if the.onion is just not high on Hotwheels' priority list right now, or if that's somehow normal behavior.
Sites that accept Tor connections find themselves subjected to many problems. Just one of them is being unable to identify the source of a connection to keep one person from setting up large numbers of accounts. This is happening on Voat, with a few certain users signing up hundreds of times then spamming the place -- while the rest of us are limited to one account per IP address. Got two people at your house who want accounts? Too fucking bad. Yet it does abs-olutely nothing to stop the Tor and proxy users. There is a very vocal contingent (I can't say how numerous they are) that insists that without the anonymity of Tor and proxies, they won't visit at all. These are not problem users, either, they're well-behaved. They might be spewing vile shit in/v/niggers or/v/FatPeopleHate, but they're not abusing the service and crossposting where nobody wants to see them. On the other hand, you have people like me, who want the crapfloods stopped. If it takes banning Tor and proxies, I'm afraid I have to say I'm for it -- though if it can be accomplished by less severe methods, that would be better. So far, management has taken the other side (doing nothing as best I can tell), so I've largely moved on. Rule #0 of any service should be "no unenforceable rules". If they can't or won't enforce the "one account per person" rule on Amalek and the Men's Rights Activists, then they shouldn't enforce them on anyone.
4chan, vile as it was, did not allow posting from proxies the last I checked (which would be over a year ago, now) because of the inability to stop the crapfloods. 8chan makes Tor users solve CAPTCHAs every three to five posts instead of once a day. There may actually be a good balance between preserving functionality for good Tor users while preventing abuse by the bad ones, but if a site as dedicated to free speech as Voat can't find it, then sites that aren't so gung ho about free speech are just going to say "screw it, block them". Can they really be blamed?
But don't worry, in a few years it will be warm and sunny in February, and you won't want another day in July when it will be unbearably hot.
You mean like it has been practically all month here, except for the occasional (quite welcome) rain days? It has been an incredibly mild winter, even by Southern California standards.
This is Southern California we're talking about. Anyone driving in heavy traffic is going to have considerably worse fuel economy numbers than someone driving open roads. When I was still driving 30,000 miles a year (about 31 miles each way daily just getting to and from work), I averaged somewhat less than 18 mpg. With the same car and a trip cut to 18 miles each way, I averaged better than 20 mpg. It wasn't just the distance, it was the fact that traffic between San Pedro and Santa Monica was nastier than the traffic between Studio City and Santa Monica, and that I had only one reasonable route from San Pedro. I had five from Studio City. In any case, there is good reason to believe that L.A. area drivers have poorer fuel economy on average than their cars are capable of. This actually makes the "number of cars" estimate even further inflated.
They could be quite useful in a civilian context though, or when infantry are going block-to-block in an inhabited area. If I'm using a firearm defensively in my own home, I probably don't want to hit anything more than 50 feet away. Sure it still has to stop somewhere, but losing velocity and tumbling will hopefully remove some of the potential to harm someone who happened to be near the firing line but in the background. Even better if this means it gets stopped by the first wall it hits.
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Notch was right to not want to target the Oculus Rift after the sale. Fecebook has the reverse Midas touch. It turns gold to shit.
Forward this parent to a company that can do the data recovery, at whatever cost -- whether it's hundreds of thousands, or millions. He'll complain, but then Apple responds "That's what it would cost us to do it, because that's how we would have to do it. Pay us or pay them, we don't work for free."
This would also work strongly toward the legal case here, saying "It's possible, just very expensive, and we have no intention of changing this."
I call bullshit. I've been to a fair number of trendy restaurants staffed by barely competent, hip young people who could burn water. In all of those cases, it was the competent, experienced, and utterly under-appreciated Mexican cooking staff that kept the place functional. When places like that go under, it's not the Mexicans that have a hard time finding the next job.
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For a change, this is pretty much exactly what I had guessed upon seeing an unfamiliar acronym.
I didn't mean to imply the car's owner would power anything but their own residence in an outage, and I don't think anyone could reasonably be expecting them to do so. Obviously they'd want to power down major draws like air conditioning or appliances during such an event as well.
50% is about the average rate of return for all lotteries nationwide. I didn't care enough to check what it is specifically in this case.
Having a battery powered vehicle attached to your electrical supply would actually help get you through the glitchy power. Although the extra load will make the problem worse in the short run, it will make a mild degree of unreliability easier to tolerate in the long run.
Yet it's legal to make a machine that pays out 50 cents on the dollar, for which they dare to TAX you if you win too much. Because government.
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Oh yes, how dare they focus on things that effect users, like how long the battery in their laptop lasts, or their electric bills. The majority of users aren't seeing issues with CPU speed, so it is becoming less of a focus then other factors. Heaven forbid they focus on the consumer's needs.
If they could keep whipping the "faster, faster, faster" horse, they would. When the primary advantage of a new computer over an old one is that it takes less power and generates less heat, people don't see much pressure to upgrade. The old one still works just fine, even if the cost of operation is higher. This is not to say that pushing "smaller, cooler, quieter" is a bad thing for the world at large. It's obviously good. But it's not as good for Intel as pushing speed at all costs used to be. Therefore the conclusion has to be that they're doing it this way because as successful as the old way was for them, they can't make it work any longer.
The rate of revolutionary change really has slowed in the past decade or so. To me, the oldest laptops worth servicing and putting back into service are Merom-based machines from early-to-mid-2007. With two decent cores, a 4GB DDR2 RAM limit, and SATA (even if SATA I), they are hardly barn-burners (lap burners they are, though), but they still run fast enough, and have Aero-capable integrated graphics Windows 10 accepts without complaint (and displays on par with what's available today). For anything older than that, I generally would advise someone to transfer data and move on if it breaks. Even those older machines are still useful as movie players and such, though. They're just not worth patching up as they fall apart.
Part of this is not just the rate of change in the hardware, it's the type of change. Hardware has trended toward light and cool rather than fast and hot over the last decade, and software has been forced to accommodate the lack of net performance increase. Accordingly, a nine year old laptop may be bulky, hot, and short on battery life, but it still works. It may not be hip and trendy, but it gets the job done, fuck you very much.
Optical bay adapters are also insanely cheap (under $10) and can double nicely as removable storage. If you find yourself using the optical drive once every few years (if that), it's quite likely you'd be better served by replacing it with something you can actually use daily, and let the optical become the external drive.
Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
That's Stealers Wheel.
The real refugees are running from the very same people that are blowing things up. They're not the problem. The problem is that there is no way to distinguish between those running from the chaos, and those running in to start the chaos.
So at some point it comes down to deciding who will pay the price of the instability in the Middle East -- the people who live there want to get away from it, but the problems sneak in amongst them. So do we turn everyone back and watch them die, or do we let them in and get blown up ourselves? Political will seems to be on taking some of the burden, but the popular opinion has never been unified and is undoubtedly going to get even more fragmented after an event like this.
Meanwhile, the governments involved want more power to spy on us, the people who haven't been blowing up airports, because it is too hard (next to impossible) to background check a flood of immigrants. It's security theater at its worst.
I don't have a good answer, it's really an unsolvable problem for someone. All that can really be handled is deciding who has to deal with it.
Already the objections are being raised in print, so it's not like others are overlooking this study.
Of course, the eventual corrections or retraction won't get anywhere near the press the original study did. It never does.
I don't think there is anything to be concerned about. They didn't engineer this bacterium, they discovered it. Yet we don't have a massive epidemic of credit-card-eating bacteria everywhere. Why? Probably because although they can eat it, it isn't their preferred food source. Now if someone knocks out some metabolic pathways so that they have to eat plastic to survive, then maybe we'll have something to worry about.
If they can make the crypto mathematically equivalent to a one-time pad, no amount of quantum computing is going to crack it since all messages of the correct length are equally valid. The key exchange itself would then have to be compromised, which would have a limited window of opportunity.
This is why I mentioned "execute-in-place" specifically. If RAM is provisioned for working data sets but programs can simply be dumped at any time (because the pointer goes to the storage, not to the RAM), then the flash would take less wear than currently. Rather than swapping things out, they just get flushed and re-read as necessary rather than the current paradigm of "load from disk, execute from RAM".
When will it become practical to eliminate the difference between temporary storage and long-term storage and just "execute in place", using RAM as a disk cache? It sounds like the speed is there already. If the storage is dangling off the memory controller rather than the PCIe controller, that would eliminate the worry about "lanes" as well.
Adobe writes the shit software, and they own the trademark. He disavowed their software a long time ago and has nothing to do with making it.
This is analogous to U.S. authorities trying to order access to e-mail stored in Ireland, and Microsoft said no in that case. So the precedent has been set in motion, though the Microsoft case is far from decided. Facebook is playing a slightly different game though, because the user in question resides in the country making the request, whereas in Microsoft's case, the DoJ wants e-mails from an account that belongs to a non-American.
You know, the 8chan software has been really fucky since the whole Infinity Next debacle. I can't say what's normal. A couple days ago, the CAPTCHAs stopped showing up. We still had to do them, but there was no graphic displayed. The workaround came from /pol/, the first time I've ever found that bunch of Stormfront asswipes useful -- View Source, highlight the link to the image that wasn't showing up, and pull it up in another tab or window.
So I don't know if the .onion is just not high on Hotwheels' priority list right now, or if that's somehow normal behavior.
Sites that accept Tor connections find themselves subjected to many problems. Just one of them is being unable to identify the source of a connection to keep one person from setting up large numbers of accounts. This is happening on Voat, with a few certain users signing up hundreds of times then spamming the place -- while the rest of us are limited to one account per IP address. Got two people at your house who want accounts? Too fucking bad. Yet it does abs-olutely nothing to stop the Tor and proxy users. There is a very vocal contingent (I can't say how numerous they are) that insists that without the anonymity of Tor and proxies, they won't visit at all. These are not problem users, either, they're well-behaved. They might be spewing vile shit in /v/niggers or /v/FatPeopleHate, but they're not abusing the service and crossposting where nobody wants to see them. On the other hand, you have people like me, who want the crapfloods stopped. If it takes banning Tor and proxies, I'm afraid I have to say I'm for it -- though if it can be accomplished by less severe methods, that would be better. So far, management has taken the other side (doing nothing as best I can tell), so I've largely moved on. Rule #0 of any service should be "no unenforceable rules". If they can't or won't enforce the "one account per person" rule on Amalek and the Men's Rights Activists, then they shouldn't enforce them on anyone.
4chan, vile as it was, did not allow posting from proxies the last I checked (which would be over a year ago, now) because of the inability to stop the crapfloods. 8chan makes Tor users solve CAPTCHAs every three to five posts instead of once a day. There may actually be a good balance between preserving functionality for good Tor users while preventing abuse by the bad ones, but if a site as dedicated to free speech as Voat can't find it, then sites that aren't so gung ho about free speech are just going to say "screw it, block them". Can they really be blamed?
But don't worry, in a few years it will be warm and sunny in February, and you won't want another day in July when it will be unbearably hot.
You mean like it has been practically all month here, except for the occasional (quite welcome) rain days? It has been an incredibly mild winter, even by Southern California standards.
This is Southern California we're talking about. Anyone driving in heavy traffic is going to have considerably worse fuel economy numbers than someone driving open roads. When I was still driving 30,000 miles a year (about 31 miles each way daily just getting to and from work), I averaged somewhat less than 18 mpg. With the same car and a trip cut to 18 miles each way, I averaged better than 20 mpg. It wasn't just the distance, it was the fact that traffic between San Pedro and Santa Monica was nastier than the traffic between Studio City and Santa Monica, and that I had only one reasonable route from San Pedro. I had five from Studio City. In any case, there is good reason to believe that L.A. area drivers have poorer fuel economy on average than their cars are capable of. This actually makes the "number of cars" estimate even further inflated.
They could be quite useful in a civilian context though, or when infantry are going block-to-block in an inhabited area. If I'm using a firearm defensively in my own home, I probably don't want to hit anything more than 50 feet away. Sure it still has to stop somewhere, but losing velocity and tumbling will hopefully remove some of the potential to harm someone who happened to be near the firing line but in the background. Even better if this means it gets stopped by the first wall it hits.