This advancement, if it pans out (most things don't, sadly...), it'll be great for Type Is.
Right now, it can be difficult to manage weight as a Type I - if you exercise, you must reduce your insulin dosage in advance. Otherwise, your blood sugar drops and you wind up eating to make up the calories.
While a normal person (or even a Type 2) can say "I'm gonna go for a run/long walk now because I feel like it", a Type 1's thought process, if they actually want to get benefit is, "I'm definitely going to go for a run/long walk after this meal. I will reduce my insulin dosage for this meal to compensate." Don't run after the meal? Bloodsugar goes high. Run after the meal without planning it before the meal? Bloodsugar goes low and you eat.
My initial reaction to the description of this was "oh, somewhat longer-acting Lantus", but it appears that it is actually load-reactive, sort of acting as an artificial pancreas. However, taking only one injection for a week is unlikely to work - the amount of insulin required for a week is far more than is practical for a single injection unless you're a little kid. That said, going down to 1-2 injections per day, and having that insulin react to load, is a MAJOR improvement for diabetics... Especially, as I said before, load-reactiveness.
Yup. I still buy NVidia cards because they ACTUALLY WORK and they do a reasonable quality control effort on their drivers.
As opposed to AMD/ATI's drivers. Every time I've gone near a Radeon it's been nightmare driver hell, whether the platform is Linux or Windows. (Yeah, they can't even get their Windows drivers right. It should be the exception and not the norm that game A requires driver version Y and above, but game B requires drivers Z and below, where Z Y, because AMD/ATI don't comprehend regression testing - but every time I've worked with an AMD/ATI graphics chipset, that shit is normal.)
More importantly: If you bring your own phone, or pay for your device outright, you have no contract.
Prior to T-Mobile's offering of no-contract plans - if you paid for your phone outright, or brought your own phone - you STILL had to sign up for a contract.
I am fairly certain the tap-to-pay systems add a capability not present in standard magstripe systems - a transaction counter within the card.
Yes, failed cards will occasionally trigger a few extra counts, but you can safely assume that all transactions with a given card are going to be monotonically increasing.
If a thief starts using your card, and then you use it - now the CC company is going to see cases where the transaction counter goes backwards, a sure sign that something is VERY WRONG. Easy fraud detection trigger.
Yeah, and the FUD comment that "omg phones MIGHT have greatly increased NFC range in the future" is bullshit.
Increasing range would require: 1) More power (eats battery) 2) More antenna surface area. To get a range of about 6-10 inches, you need an antenna that is more than a foot on each side. (I need to hold my badge within 6-10 inches of the reader when badging into the largest readers at my workplace - which are over a foot in both width and height.) Oh yeah, that's with a fixed reader that has all the power it could ever want.
The problem is that sometimes it is hard to get service without the subsidy penalty.
Fortunately, it is much easier now than it was a year or so ago, thanks to Straight Talk and Net10's SIM-only plans (both give you choices of AT&T or T-Mobile's network, although new AT&T ST SIMs may be temporarily unavailable.) and T-Mobile's new plan structures.
When my contract is up, it's off to ST (if they are offering AT&T SIMs again at that point) or Net10 for me.
The real question is - One can always look at a oneliner summary of a law and say, "opposing this is BAD!" - but often when you start picking apart the details of a bill, you'll see that it is the WRONG way to solve a given problem and the law itself is just plain BAD.
Look at Every Child Left Behind - Hey, let's make education in our country better! If anyone opposes it... THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!!!! - That legislation is systematically destroying the education system in this country. Yeah, the oneliner summary looks GREAT - THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!! - but the law itself is just plain BAD.
That and the fact that the PS3 supports more formats than the RPi for playback, not counting the fact that you can play games on it. Plus RPi doesn't do Netflix or Amazon Instant Video.
Indirectly? The whole sequestration mess makes the government (or any contractor of the government) a pretty unpleasant place to work now.
Big problem is all of the obsession about money and productivity leads to massive oversight - which leads to piss-poor productivity. Death spiral, here we come.
Um, DLNA is, specifically, for working with your own digital files.
Example: PS3 as a MythTV frontend due to MythTV's ability to act as a DLNA server PS3 streaming video files from a PC if you have a PC-based DLNA server such as MediaTomb installed (less common case) - Bring an Android device with some media to a friends' house, fire up Skifta on it, and serve up that media to a friend's PS3.
If the encryption key is derived from the users' password, and it's hashed differently than whatever algorithm Apple uses for login (one example might be PBKDF2 for encryption and crypt() for login) - it's very easy to store encrypted "blobs" of data that can only be accessed by the user (with their password). I believe this is how Blackberry operates - their servers store encrypted data, but BB is never in possession of the key.
That said, if you read the DEA's memo more carefully, all it pretty much says if you think about it is "herp derp we can't sniff SSL. Call the waaaaaahmbulance!".
The memo is talking about their intercept systems that are installed at the service provider level (cellular provider or landline ISP). These systems can't intercept SSL traffic.
If you read the memo, it's "should be considered encrypted", even if the reality is - their inteceptor/monitoring devices are too stupid to recognize APNS traffic and log/parse it.
This information could be completely cleartext and iMessage may only provide "security through obscurity". Although APNS is PROBABLY tunneled through SSL or something similar, meaning intercepts are only possible if you do it at Apple.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google Talk were just as difficult for feds.
Yeah, you shuttered your nuke plants and lit up more coal/gas plants. Great job there.:)
Also, Germany is probably doing the same thing as Denmark is - trading with Norway as production fluctuates. This technique does not scale. (It also means you're exporting energy when it's cheap and importing it when it's expensive.)
The article makes no mention of WHICH Android revision each of the given phones tested was using.
It was a known problem with Gingerbread and earlier that the wipe method used by most Android devices was insufficient. That's why Google added secure erase prior to reformat with ICS (maybe HC too, not sure...)
Interesting result of this: Samsung's eMMC chips that were shipped in the Galaxy S II and original Galaxy Note couldn't handle this secure erase command properly, and using a standard "secure" wipe had a pretty good chance of corrupting the wear leveller so badly the chip would be rendered useless. (Samsung's own recoveries were "neutered" so as not to issue a secure erase command.)
TL;DR - Unless crippled by the manufacturer, any recent Android device (ICS or newer) should not have any of the issues with data remaining easily recoverable after a wipe described by this article. LG didn't do anything special here - they just implemented ICS or later and that's all that was needed.
Because it doesn't make sense to compare it against technologies that can't scale up to meet demand.
No country has achieved more than 20% grid penetration of wind/solar without major compromises. In the case of Denmark, they did it by trading electricity with Norway. (Norway is fortunate to have LOTS of hydro resources, and hydro is great for energy storage and filling in holes left when you use a resource that typically has only 20-30% capacity factor.)
The problem is that our hydroelectric resources are pretty much tapped out - there aren't many more places we can build dams.
So once your wind/solar penetration goes above what our current hydro resources can fill in the gaps for - you've got a BIG scaling problem.
Nuclear, on the other hand, has a pretty consistent track record of delivering capacity factors of 90% or above. (The exception being France, who actually do have too much nuclear, so much that they actually have to do demand following with some of their plants.)
So what does that leave? Coal and gas. Coal can be proven to be FAR more dangerous and dirty than nuclear, and while gas burns cleanly, if you look at the environmental impacts of modern drilling techniques (such as hydrofracturing), you're approaching as much environmental damage in the past 5-10 years as the entire history of nuclear - it's just not as obvious because instead of bad things happening at a single obvious point source, the damage being done by gas drilling is distributed geographically.
Um, that's a BIT of scaremongering... Did this idiot somehow confuse Google with Facebook? Yes, Google has had some minor screwups (and some, such as the Street View mess, could barely be considered a screwup but more of FUD from clueless users who don't understand that ANYONE can see the MAC address of a wifi AP...), but nothing as major and spectacular as Facebook's routine privacy screwups.
And yes, overall - I trust Google, as do MANY other people.
It's not just worldwide... It's even in their core markets that they have a problem.
See, right now, the only way to LEGALLY get their content is to: Purchase a cable TV subscription Purchase an HBO cable subscription (more expensive for a single channel than most streaming services), which, for the most part overlaps significantly with other services out there (Netflix, Redbox, etc.)
Now, I know HBO wants to use their "original content" to get users to pay for the whole shebang - but right now, in an era where many people are trying as hard as they can to "cut the cable".
If HBO allowed people to purchase HBO GO on its own, many of their piracy problems would disappear.
Another way of looking at it is: Consumers in the USA hate cable companies with a passion. Right now, HBO will only sell their content legally through these almost universally hated entities.
T-Mobile's plans are great, but they have two major (and related) deficiencies.
1) Their primary 3G band is 1700 MHz. Only a small number of devices support this. Their secondary band is 1900 MHz - There are devices out there that don't support this either. They have zero service in UMTS850, while AT&T has pretty solid service there. (I have a Euro LTE Xperia Z unit - it has UMTS850 support but no 1900, and it gets solid coverage where I live.) 2) Their coverage is, in general, crap. Back in 2008-2009, it was so bad that you could not make a call of any form within 20 miles of where I lived, but AT&T had solid 3G service. If you put a T-Mobile SIM into an unlocked phone, the AT&T towers would blacklist the IMEI for 15-20 minutes, even if you turned the phone off and put an AT&T SIM back in.
I'm on AT&T now, but if Straight Talk sorts out their contract negotiations with AT&T, I'll switch to one of their BYOD SIM-only plans. (ST is an MVNO that resells both T-Mo and AT&T service. However right now they're only reselling T-Mo SIMs.)
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This advancement, if it pans out (most things don't, sadly...), it'll be great for Type Is.
Right now, it can be difficult to manage weight as a Type I - if you exercise, you must reduce your insulin dosage in advance. Otherwise, your blood sugar drops and you wind up eating to make up the calories.
While a normal person (or even a Type 2) can say "I'm gonna go for a run/long walk now because I feel like it", a Type 1's thought process, if they actually want to get benefit is, "I'm definitely going to go for a run/long walk after this meal. I will reduce my insulin dosage for this meal to compensate." Don't run after the meal? Bloodsugar goes high. Run after the meal without planning it before the meal? Bloodsugar goes low and you eat.
My initial reaction to the description of this was "oh, somewhat longer-acting Lantus", but it appears that it is actually load-reactive, sort of acting as an artificial pancreas. However, taking only one injection for a week is unlikely to work - the amount of insulin required for a week is far more than is practical for a single injection unless you're a little kid. That said, going down to 1-2 injections per day, and having that insulin react to load, is a MAJOR improvement for diabetics... Especially, as I said before, load-reactiveness.
Yup. I still buy NVidia cards because they ACTUALLY WORK and they do a reasonable quality control effort on their drivers.
As opposed to AMD/ATI's drivers. Every time I've gone near a Radeon it's been nightmare driver hell, whether the platform is Linux or Windows. (Yeah, they can't even get their Windows drivers right. It should be the exception and not the norm that game A requires driver version Y and above, but game B requires drivers Z and below, where Z Y, because AMD/ATI don't comprehend regression testing - but every time I've worked with an AMD/ATI graphics chipset, that shit is normal.)
More importantly: If you bring your own phone, or pay for your device outright, you have no contract.
Prior to T-Mobile's offering of no-contract plans - if you paid for your phone outright, or brought your own phone - you STILL had to sign up for a contract.
I am fairly certain the tap-to-pay systems add a capability not present in standard magstripe systems - a transaction counter within the card.
Yes, failed cards will occasionally trigger a few extra counts, but you can safely assume that all transactions with a given card are going to be monotonically increasing.
If a thief starts using your card, and then you use it - now the CC company is going to see cases where the transaction counter goes backwards, a sure sign that something is VERY WRONG. Easy fraud detection trigger.
Yeah, and the FUD comment that "omg phones MIGHT have greatly increased NFC range in the future" is bullshit.
Increasing range would require:
1) More power (eats battery)
2) More antenna surface area. To get a range of about 6-10 inches, you need an antenna that is more than a foot on each side. (I need to hold my badge within 6-10 inches of the reader when badging into the largest readers at my workplace - which are over a foot in both width and height.) Oh yeah, that's with a fixed reader that has all the power it could ever want.
The problem is that sometimes it is hard to get service without the subsidy penalty.
Fortunately, it is much easier now than it was a year or so ago, thanks to Straight Talk and Net10's SIM-only plans (both give you choices of AT&T or T-Mobile's network, although new AT&T ST SIMs may be temporarily unavailable.) and T-Mobile's new plan structures.
When my contract is up, it's off to ST (if they are offering AT&T SIMs again at that point) or Net10 for me.
T-Mobile, Net10, Straight Talk. Probably a few other MVNOs out there.
Yeah. It looks like these are nonrechargeable cells.
In short, a car that consumes aluminum instead of gasoline to run.
There's a brief reference to rechargeable zinc-air cells - but the aluminum-air cells seem to be nonrechargeable.
The real question is - One can always look at a oneliner summary of a law and say, "opposing this is BAD!" - but often when you start picking apart the details of a bill, you'll see that it is the WRONG way to solve a given problem and the law itself is just plain BAD.
Look at Every Child Left Behind - Hey, let's make education in our country better! If anyone opposes it... THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!!!! - That legislation is systematically destroying the education system in this country. Yeah, the oneliner summary looks GREAT - THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!! - but the law itself is just plain BAD.
That and the fact that the PS3 supports more formats than the RPi for playback, not counting the fact that you can play games on it. Plus RPi doesn't do Netflix or Amazon Instant Video.
Directly? Probably not.
Indirectly? The whole sequestration mess makes the government (or any contractor of the government) a pretty unpleasant place to work now.
Big problem is all of the obsession about money and productivity leads to massive oversight - which leads to piss-poor productivity. Death spiral, here we come.
Um, DLNA is, specifically, for working with your own digital files.
Example:
PS3 as a MythTV frontend due to MythTV's ability to act as a DLNA server
PS3 streaming video files from a PC if you have a PC-based DLNA server such as MediaTomb installed
(less common case) - Bring an Android device with some media to a friends' house, fire up Skifta on it, and serve up that media to a friend's PS3.
If you read the TFA - most of the size increase is going into the shells, not the flesh.
So they may LOOK like better food from the outside - but they're worse.
If the encryption key is derived from the users' password, and it's hashed differently than whatever algorithm Apple uses for login (one example might be PBKDF2 for encryption and crypt() for login) - it's very easy to store encrypted "blobs" of data that can only be accessed by the user (with their password). I believe this is how Blackberry operates - their servers store encrypted data, but BB is never in possession of the key.
That said, if you read the DEA's memo more carefully, all it pretty much says if you think about it is "herp derp we can't sniff SSL. Call the waaaaaahmbulance!".
The memo is talking about their intercept systems that are installed at the service provider level (cellular provider or landline ISP). These systems can't intercept SSL traffic.
Actually, they're not. What they're creating is more akin to uncontrolled thermonuclear fusion.
Pretty much mini-bombs without the fission primary. Still pretty much bombs though. Usable for a rocket, not usable for electrical generation.
Also, even if it doesn't achieve breakeven, it may still be able to achieve very good Isp - e.g. lots of thrust per gram of propellant mass.
Actually that is fairly well controlled. Its excursions (flares, CMEs) are tiny compared to its steady-state output.
Problem is we don't know how to make a controlled reactor that isn't significantly bigger than the entire planet and uses gravity for confinment yet.
If you read the memo, it's "should be considered encrypted", even if the reality is - their inteceptor/monitoring devices are too stupid to recognize APNS traffic and log/parse it.
This information could be completely cleartext and iMessage may only provide "security through obscurity". Although APNS is PROBABLY tunneled through SSL or something similar, meaning intercepts are only possible if you do it at Apple.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google Talk were just as difficult for feds.
Yeah, you shuttered your nuke plants and lit up more coal/gas plants. Great job there. :)
Also, Germany is probably doing the same thing as Denmark is - trading with Norway as production fluctuates. This technique does not scale. (It also means you're exporting energy when it's cheap and importing it when it's expensive.)
The article makes no mention of WHICH Android revision each of the given phones tested was using.
It was a known problem with Gingerbread and earlier that the wipe method used by most Android devices was insufficient. That's why Google added secure erase prior to reformat with ICS (maybe HC too, not sure...)
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/extras/+/c2470654d4b4db09a7052fc5fa108ac21f1b1948
Interesting result of this: Samsung's eMMC chips that were shipped in the Galaxy S II and original Galaxy Note couldn't handle this secure erase command properly, and using a standard "secure" wipe had a pretty good chance of corrupting the wear leveller so badly the chip would be rendered useless. (Samsung's own recoveries were "neutered" so as not to issue a secure erase command.)
TL;DR - Unless crippled by the manufacturer, any recent Android device (ICS or newer) should not have any of the issues with data remaining easily recoverable after a wipe described by this article. LG didn't do anything special here - they just implemented ICS or later and that's all that was needed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor
Because it doesn't make sense to compare it against technologies that can't scale up to meet demand.
No country has achieved more than 20% grid penetration of wind/solar without major compromises. In the case of Denmark, they did it by trading electricity with Norway. (Norway is fortunate to have LOTS of hydro resources, and hydro is great for energy storage and filling in holes left when you use a resource that typically has only 20-30% capacity factor.)
The problem is that our hydroelectric resources are pretty much tapped out - there aren't many more places we can build dams.
So once your wind/solar penetration goes above what our current hydro resources can fill in the gaps for - you've got a BIG scaling problem.
Nuclear, on the other hand, has a pretty consistent track record of delivering capacity factors of 90% or above. (The exception being France, who actually do have too much nuclear, so much that they actually have to do demand following with some of their plants.)
So what does that leave? Coal and gas. Coal can be proven to be FAR more dangerous and dirty than nuclear, and while gas burns cleanly, if you look at the environmental impacts of modern drilling techniques (such as hydrofracturing), you're approaching as much environmental damage in the past 5-10 years as the entire history of nuclear - it's just not as obvious because instead of bad things happening at a single obvious point source, the damage being done by gas drilling is distributed geographically.
Um, that's a BIT of scaremongering... Did this idiot somehow confuse Google with Facebook? Yes, Google has had some minor screwups (and some, such as the Street View mess, could barely be considered a screwup but more of FUD from clueless users who don't understand that ANYONE can see the MAC address of a wifi AP...), but nothing as major and spectacular as Facebook's routine privacy screwups.
And yes, overall - I trust Google, as do MANY other people.
It's not just worldwide... It's even in their core markets that they have a problem.
See, right now, the only way to LEGALLY get their content is to:
Purchase a cable TV subscription
Purchase an HBO cable subscription (more expensive for a single channel than most streaming services), which, for the most part overlaps significantly with other services out there (Netflix, Redbox, etc.)
Now, I know HBO wants to use their "original content" to get users to pay for the whole shebang - but right now, in an era where many people are trying as hard as they can to "cut the cable".
If HBO allowed people to purchase HBO GO on its own, many of their piracy problems would disappear.
Another way of looking at it is:
Consumers in the USA hate cable companies with a passion. Right now, HBO will only sell their content legally through these almost universally hated entities.
Not guaranteed if the device does any form of block remapping...
Which every modern drive for the past decade has done...
T-Mobile's plans are great, but they have two major (and related) deficiencies.
1) Their primary 3G band is 1700 MHz. Only a small number of devices support this. Their secondary band is 1900 MHz - There are devices out there that don't support this either. They have zero service in UMTS850, while AT&T has pretty solid service there. (I have a Euro LTE Xperia Z unit - it has UMTS850 support but no 1900, and it gets solid coverage where I live.)
2) Their coverage is, in general, crap. Back in 2008-2009, it was so bad that you could not make a call of any form within 20 miles of where I lived, but AT&T had solid 3G service. If you put a T-Mobile SIM into an unlocked phone, the AT&T towers would blacklist the IMEI for 15-20 minutes, even if you turned the phone off and put an AT&T SIM back in.
I'm on AT&T now, but if Straight Talk sorts out their contract negotiations with AT&T, I'll switch to one of their BYOD SIM-only plans. (ST is an MVNO that resells both T-Mo and AT&T service. However right now they're only reselling T-Mo SIMs.)