Russia doesn't have any problem with the death penalty in any cases.
However, this case has nothing to do with Snowden, or any other case, as it was clearly different. A person in the military is quite different than a civilian. And even military judges are unlikely to issue the death penalty unless there was direct links to multiple lives lost. Even then the Fort Hood shootings by a self avowed Jihadist is not likely to result in the Death Penalty.
Because its not the nitrogen fixing that is the problem, its all the other side effects of artificial fertilization that we could avoid. As it is, some crop land gets planted in clover or alfalfa once in a while to fix nitrogen in the soil.
By the way Alfalfa already fixes nitrogen with the help of a bacteria:
Like other legumes, its root nodules contain bacteria, Sinorhizobium meliloti, with the ability to fix nitrogen, producing a high-protein feed regardless of available nitrogen in the soil.[17] Its nitrogen-fixing ability (which increases soil nitrogen) and its use as an animal feed greatly improve agricultural efficiency.
So this discovery is actually nothing new, just a more versatile strain of bacteria.
Weed Whackers and mowers will still work. World Food shortage solved. Bigger healthier plants consume more CO2. Worlds problems solved... hugs and kisses all around.
Maybe, maybe not. All Samsung would have to do is buy a large block of TSMC stock on the China exchange directly from the major holders. (Perhaps for well above market value). Samsung could quietly influence a great deal of TSMC decisions without even appearing to have any connection. They might hold this stock in their name or the name of some sock-puppet friend in China.
The China and Korean exchanges are far less open for inspection they NYSE or NASDAC.
Bribery doesn't have to enter into it. No need to risk criminal charges when it can be done legally.
It looks like Mansfield has been held accountable for the TSMC production glitches and the persistence of Apple’s dependency on arch competitor Samsung for its most strategic components - the SoC heart and brains of its mobile devices.
I agree its pretty thin.
However when you look at what Mansfield was actually brought back for: (From tfa quoting Apple)
"Bob Mansfield will lead a new group, Technologies, which combines all of Apple’s wireless teams across the company in one organization, fostering innovation in this area at an even higher level. This organization will also include the semiconductor teams, who have ambitious plans for the future."
It looks like it was semiconductors, Wireless, and other sources say the list includes the speculated Apple Smartwatch project as well.
Well, the all of those projects are in trouble. Apple has had yet another in their long line of wifi disasters and had to issue emergency patches to the Air.
I suppose its not too hard to pick the biggest of these projects and pin it on that.
But other sources suggest TSMC was starting to push back on Apple's plans to have it manufacture all SOCs for them.
Apple asked to invest in TSMC, or to have TSMC set aside factory space dedicated to Apple chips, the executives say. TSMC Chairman Morris Chang rejected both requests because the company wanted to maintain its independence and manufacturing flexibility, the executives say.
It sounds to me like TSMC has other suitors knocking on their door.
At the same time, Samsung purchased a significant portion of Sharp, and upped its orders from them, which gives them just enough control of Sharp to prevent Apple being to leverage demands for price reductions from Sharp.
You quickly get the impression that Apple is getting the rope-a-dope treatment in the far east, and Samsung is one step ahead of them at every turn.
You missed the point--he's saying that root access might one day no longer be necessary, not that it'll become impossible to root an Android device.
Exactly. The reason people root phones is to get around arbitrary restrictions imposed by the carriers or the manufacturers. Remove those restrictions, by providing APIs that allow users to do every legal thing, and virtually all reason to root disappear.
When you can remove bloatware, change carriers, bypass carrier restrictions, change the UI, and maybe even change the OS, all without requiring root, what would be the point of rooting?
There will still be those who will root simply because they can. These are the same kids that always ran their Linux machines at root because they were so 133t.
Why is it every report of a vulnerability of a system where any form of encryption is used always brings out some know-nothing speculation about rolling their own encryption? Are you sure you don't want to mention Faraday Cages and Gravity Wells while you are at it?
Immobilizers are in the end, a physical system, which can just as easily be bypassed physically, and probably far easier than breaking its encryption.
the two other authors Roel Verdult and Baris Ege, both of Radboud University Nijmegen are not in or from the UK so it’s not clear to me how effective the injunction would be against them if they opted to defy it.
So it doesn't follow that just because the paper is released that the enjoined person released it. The injunction does not reach to Germany, nor does it reach to the peers in other countries that may have provided peer review.
The fact that the injunction was issued at all speaks to the judge's lack of knowledge as to who Barbra Streisand is, and why she is germane to this issue.
Its most likely firmware, and as for the auto update capability, any car new enough to have this feature will have an update capability, because almost every car gets software updates.
Not all are applied, especially after the car is out of warranty, or resold, but most people have these updates applied at their next service. Very few people buy a new car and then never visit the dealership again.
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Russia doesn't have any problem with the death penalty in any cases.
However, this case has nothing to do with Snowden, or any other case, as it was clearly different.
A person in the military is quite different than a civilian. And even military judges are unlikely to issue
the death penalty unless there was direct links to multiple lives lost. Even then the Fort Hood
shootings by a self avowed Jihadist is not likely to result in the Death Penalty.
Exactly.
Because its not the nitrogen fixing that is the problem, its all the other side effects of artificial fertilization that we could avoid.
As it is, some crop land gets planted in clover or alfalfa once in a while to fix nitrogen in the soil.
By the way Alfalfa already fixes nitrogen with the help of a bacteria:
Like other legumes, its root nodules contain bacteria, Sinorhizobium meliloti, with the ability to fix nitrogen, producing a high-protein feed regardless of available nitrogen in the soil.[17] Its nitrogen-fixing ability (which increases soil nitrogen) and its use as an animal feed greatly improve agricultural efficiency.
So this discovery is actually nothing new, just a more versatile strain of bacteria.
Weed Whackers and mowers will still work.
World Food shortage solved.
Bigger healthier plants consume more CO2.
Worlds problems solved... hugs and kisses all around.
And besides this was discovered in Europe, so its automatically safe. (/snort).
GMO, Devil, Evil, Bad, KILLING HUMANITY!!! Organic Only!!!!!!!!
Oh, but this was discovered in Europe, or at least England, so its ok. No problem.
Unless or until its licensed exclusively by Monsanto, then, EVIL AGAIN!
Maybe, maybe not.
All Samsung would have to do is buy a large block of TSMC stock on the China exchange directly from the major holders. (Perhaps for well above market value). Samsung could quietly influence a great deal of TSMC decisions without even appearing to have any connection. They might hold this stock in their name or the name of some sock-puppet friend in China.
The China and Korean exchanges are far less open for inspection they NYSE or NASDAC.
Bribery doesn't have to enter into it. No need to risk criminal charges when it can be done legally.
Its all bundled into the last sentence:
It looks like Mansfield has been held accountable for the TSMC production glitches and the persistence of Apple’s dependency on arch competitor Samsung for its most strategic components - the SoC heart and brains of its mobile devices.
I agree its pretty thin.
However when you look at what Mansfield was actually brought back for: (From tfa quoting Apple)
"Bob Mansfield will lead a new group, Technologies, which combines all of Apple’s wireless teams across the company in one organization, fostering innovation in this area at an even higher level. This organization will also include the semiconductor teams, who have ambitious plans for the future."
It looks like it was semiconductors, Wireless, and other sources say the list includes the speculated Apple Smartwatch project as well.
Well, the all of those projects are in trouble. Apple has had yet another in their long line of wifi disasters and had to issue emergency patches to the Air.
I suppose its not too hard to pick the biggest of these projects and pin it on that.
But other sources suggest TSMC was starting to push back on Apple's plans to have it manufacture all SOCs for them.
Apple asked to invest in TSMC, or to have TSMC set aside factory space dedicated to Apple chips, the executives say. TSMC Chairman Morris Chang rejected both requests because the company wanted to maintain its independence and manufacturing flexibility, the executives say.
It sounds to me like TSMC has other suitors knocking on their door.
At the same time, Samsung purchased a significant portion of Sharp, and upped its orders from them, which gives them just enough control of Sharp to prevent Apple being to leverage demands for price reductions from Sharp.
You quickly get the impression that Apple is getting the rope-a-dope treatment in the far east, and Samsung is one step ahead of them at every turn.
Sorry, but you are wrong.
Said mobster story was debunked years ago. His phone had been tampered with.
Again, stupid idea.
Its your phone. Why let some Robber Barron scare you away from using it?
Deprive the assholes of your patronage.
Well played sir!
Well you won't find a clock in Vegas or many windows, but you will see exit signs everywhere.
Couple times per year?
You must not read many threads here on Slashdot, because there seems to be an obligatory link in every story.
None of those are issues for me.
All I want is to remove pre-installed bloatware so that I have more of what I want.
I've never had a backup issue because there are apps for that, and everything is in the cloud anyway.
be gone spammer.
You missed the point--he's saying that root access might one day no longer be necessary, not that it'll become impossible to root an Android device.
Exactly.
The reason people root phones is to get around arbitrary restrictions imposed by the carriers or the manufacturers.
Remove those restrictions, by providing APIs that allow users to do every legal thing, and virtually all reason to root disappear.
When you can remove bloatware, change carriers, bypass carrier restrictions, change the UI, and maybe even change the OS, all without requiring root, what would be the point of rooting?
There will still be those who will root simply because they can. These are the same kids that always ran their Linux machines at root because they were so 133t.
Name one phone where off is not in fact OFF.
That would be illegal in the US.
Apparently they don't have Fire Marshalls in Argentina. I can't think of a single place in North America where that would be legal.
It takes about a week for the average "hired off the street" sales staff to learn which customers need hand holding and which don't.
Just put a notice on the box the phone came it, and print it on the back of the phone itself that says
Anything you do on this device will be reported to the NSA
and be done with it.
Immobilizers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser interrupt two different circuits, typically fuel pumps and low-voltage supply.
So two small jumper clips bypasses the entire system if you know where to put them, and have physical access to the vehicle.
Sigh...
Why is it every report of a vulnerability of a system where any form of encryption is used always brings out some know-nothing speculation about rolling their own encryption? Are you sure you don't want to mention Faraday Cages and Gravity Wells while you are at it?
Immobilizers are in the end, a physical system, which can just as easily be bypassed physically, and probably far easier than breaking its encryption.
From TFA:
the two other authors Roel Verdult and Baris Ege, both of Radboud University Nijmegen are not in or from the UK so it’s not clear to me how effective the injunction would be against them if they opted to defy it.
So it doesn't follow that just because the paper is released that the enjoined person released it. The injunction does not reach to Germany, nor does it reach to the peers in other countries that may have provided peer review.
The fact that the injunction was issued at all speaks to the judge's lack of knowledge as to who Barbra Streisand is, and why she is germane to this issue.
Its most likely firmware, and as for the auto update capability, any car new enough to have this feature will have an update capability, because almost every car gets software updates.
Not all are applied, especially after the car is out of warranty, or resold, but most people have these updates applied at their next service. Very few people buy a new car and then never visit the dealership again.
Why does everyone love to throw out the Faraday solution for devices that have OFF switches?
Not really.
You can do that as often as you want, as long as you don't create any more copies than you are licensed to have at any one time.
Besides, Netflix has a totally different license than you or I. They pay a few pennies per rental, not by the number of copies they hold.
I'll go with Amazon every time, as well as their so called gray market dumpers, thank you very much.
Any retailers making enough profit to fund the type of tracking you posit are gouging too deeply anyway.