This times 1000. The radio in my car doesn't have volume or tuning knobs. Every time I have to adjust the volume I want to punch the touchscreen back into the firewall of the dashboard.
Every radio needs two knobs and, at least, a row of physical buttons along the bottom of the touch screen so I can use the thing without looking at it.
I had a Sunbird in the early 90's and, as lousy a "sports car" as it was, it had one of the greatest dash layouts ever. You could control nearly everything without taking your hands off of the steering wheel. It had two control sticks, one was ONLY for cruise control, and the other was ONLY for the turn signal. Every control did one thing. They all had different ridges and bumps on them so you could tell them apart by feel. The radio was mounted high and just to the right of the steering wheel so you only had to move your hand a few inches to get to it. Also, every button only did one thing, and they were all different shapes so you could find them by touch. Climate control was the furthest away from the steering wheel, but it only had three levers - fan, vent, temperature, so you didn't need to look at it to control it, either. This is what we need more of.
If you need to adjust something every time you drive, then there should be a dedicated control for it. Put it up close to the steering wheel so you don't have to move your hands around to get to it. And don't jam all of them on the steering wheel or on control sticks, you can mount them on the dashboard as well.
Even cheap cars have simple array microphones in the headliner that work pretty well for voice recognition. On my car the built-in microphones work better than holding the phone to your face and talking.
They were probably flying over the water. The only time I've seen helicopters flying that low in NYC is when they were picking someone up in town, or flying over the water.
It would probably work for a *very* targeted attack. A specific rev of a specific device running a specific OS.
Useful for spooks, not much for anyone else. There were a bunch of these kinds of hacks in the NSA leaks - a MITM attack given a specific version of Apache, OpenSSL, and a specific version of a particular web browser.
It would all be more secure if there were a backdoor engineered into the design so the government could have unfettered access to our data. You know, to make sure it's secure.
I agree with you on the problems with fiat currency. However, I think you could make an argument that the value of Bitcoin in particular is the integrity of the blockchain and the wide-spread usage of it's clients. As tokens of authenticity, they do have some value.
I think the underlying issue with Bitcoin is that it isn't easy to nail down as any one particular thing. It has some properties of a currency and can be used as one, but it really isn't a currency in the traditional sense. It's kind of like a negotiable bearer-bond, it's kind of like a traveler's check, it's partially a p2p network and sort of like a Keberos token. But it isn't exactly like any one of those things.
Also, in nearly all of the renditions I've seen, it's been used in a satirical sense, mostly to poke fun at anti-fascists, and, even more hilariously, at fascists themselves.
Seriously, a show of hands: in an age of gerrymandered, electoral colleged, voter suppressed, primary rigged, black box voting machine, foreign government influenced elections, where the guy who loses the vote gets to rule, who wouldn't give up their right to this meaningless exercise in exchange for the forgiveness of $100,000.00 in debt?
On the other hand, pretty much nobody in the establishment wanted Trump to win, he spent a fraction of what Hilary spent on her campaign, and he won. Not saying he's a good candidate, but there isn't a 1:1 relationship between who the establishment wants, and who actually gets in.
You're assuming the Cuban government is one monolithic entity. There might be a faction of the government that wants to mess with Cuban-US relations.
A huge chunk of their GDP, roughly 20%, comes from assistance from Venezuela. Thawing US relations might be a threat to that income stream. Then again, Venezuela might see thawing US-Cuban relations as a threat, as well, though I don't think a Venezuelan attack on US diplomats in Cuba would happen without someone in the Cuban government, at the very least, knowing about it.
Unless you've ever done a live demo in front of a lot of people, nobody can quite understand how freaky it is to have stuff go wrong like this.
A company I used to work for did a live demo of a brand new technology at a CES press conference once. Nearly every engineer in the company was on hand monitoring stuff. We must have done a dozen dry runs before the live demo, and that was after testing the crap out of it in the lab. We got it up and running before the presentation and left it running - no stopping or starting. It worked fine, but that was how freaked out the engineers and sales guys were over the demo - 'cause they've done them before and saw stuff go haywire for no particular reason.
There was study done by the US Navy or Air Force in the 80's to see what kind of voice would work best for warning fighter pilots of various things. Higher pitched voices cut through cockpit noise and other distractions better than others, so they used women to record the warning signals.
I think the overall theme is that higher pitched voices cut through noise floor better than lower pitched voices.
Holy cow, I'm glad this information is front page news. This is groundbreaking journalism. No clickbait tagline here, no siree. All that's missing is the analysis on how devastating this information will be to the new iPhone's sales.
This should be part of a new series. What cables will next-gen devices come with? Do HP desktops come with regular round power cables, or those weird, flat, 3-wire jobs? And, most importantly, HOW LONG WILL THEY BE? If they include a 3-foot but I need a 4-foot I'll have to go out and buy one!
Seriously, is nothing else going on in tech right now?
I'm sure some have a wild, edge-of-your-seat lives, but many do 'conveyancing', which is a paper pushing exercise to do with house buying and selling. It's a job that could, and should be completely automated into non-existence, and one that a 'chat bot' could easily achieve - were it not for the insistence of various parties to post documents to each other.
I agree that a lot of buying and selling a house can be automated. Lawyers in the US are working on it, when we bought our house last year a lot of the initial document work was done through Docusign. The problem is, 75% of house transactions are totally by the book, probably 15% have things that go screwy, and 5% go totally off the rails for one reason or another. That last 25% is where lawyers come in handy. (source: all the real estate people I've talked to)
The first house we bought was in the "screwy" category. We retained a lawyer just to make sure everything was on the up and up. It was a probate sale and there were unpaid home loans, liens, unpaid taxes and multiple mortgages involved. The former occupant wasn't the owner, and was in jail. The listing agent also seemed pretty shady. It was all resolved through the courts properly, but it was good to have a lawyer involved birddogging all the legal proceedings.
People have short memories when it comes to weather, unless it's something really weird. We had a really nasty winter a couple of years ago, and people were freaking out about it. "This is the worst I've ever seen!" I remember winters from 20 years ago that were much worse, but it seems like most other people do not. I think the difference is that I like to ski, and it seems like skiers, being outside more often in the winter, recall the particulars about winter weather more than most.
Byte was THE magazine to read for general computer news in the late 80's and early 90's. I have a bunch of them and I re-read them from time to time. This is back when nobody knew what was coming down the pipe, or what would even work. You had document-based object-oriented application paradigms being tried out, all kinds of new languages, new processor and hardware architectures being tried out. Weird storage mediums (floptical? ZIP drives? MO Drives?) By today's standards, weird OSes being tried out (BeOS, OS/2, even QNX made a bid for the desktop)
Now the big research goes into what kind of screens the next smartphones will have, or how much faster the next version of the same graphics card you own will be.
Farnsworth invented video tubes; Baird invented television.
So what exactly did Baird invent? He got the spinning disc contraption from someone else (it was pretty old technology by the time Baird was using it) He used the image processing and signal amplification circuits from Arthur Korn. He used already available photo cells. There were papers detailing the possibility of transmitting moving images dating back to the 1910s and theories on how to implement it.
Baird was the first to transmit moving images electronically. I wouldn't say he invented television, the same way I wouldn't say the Montgolfiers invented the airplane.
Not because the addon is a security risk, but because Moonchild thinks the threat of losing revenue is more important than freedom of choice. Use a browser that respects your freedoms
Not exactly what the post said, but close. I mostly agree with his assessment of the plugin, and I don't see a problem with tweaking a config option to re-enable it. Heck, I wouldn't have a problem recompiling Pale Moon sans the block list if it's that big of a deal. To me, it isn't.
I think you are wrong. Amongst the Americans who do think, I expect many of them think that Henry Ford applied mass production to cars.
That's what we were taught in school. I remember writing a paper about it in fourth grade. I think it was Daimler who had the first commercially available motorized car.
I've heard anecdotally online and from friends that Huawei's support is sub-Samsung. Meaning you'll get a few security patches, and maybe an OTA point release upgrade for Android, but that's about it.
Could be wrong, but usually support is the first thing to be cut to make a tablet or phone cheaply.
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Why do the knobs need to be - or why *should they be* - on a centre console?
Because passengers use the radio, too.
This times 1000. The radio in my car doesn't have volume or tuning knobs. Every time I have to adjust the volume I want to punch the touchscreen back into the firewall of the dashboard.
Every radio needs two knobs and, at least, a row of physical buttons along the bottom of the touch screen so I can use the thing without looking at it.
I had a Sunbird in the early 90's and, as lousy a "sports car" as it was, it had one of the greatest dash layouts ever. You could control nearly everything without taking your hands off of the steering wheel. It had two control sticks, one was ONLY for cruise control, and the other was ONLY for the turn signal. Every control did one thing. They all had different ridges and bumps on them so you could tell them apart by feel. The radio was mounted high and just to the right of the steering wheel so you only had to move your hand a few inches to get to it. Also, every button only did one thing, and they were all different shapes so you could find them by touch. Climate control was the furthest away from the steering wheel, but it only had three levers - fan, vent, temperature, so you didn't need to look at it to control it, either. This is what we need more of.
If you need to adjust something every time you drive, then there should be a dedicated control for it. Put it up close to the steering wheel so you don't have to move your hands around to get to it. And don't jam all of them on the steering wheel or on control sticks, you can mount them on the dashboard as well.
Even cheap cars have simple array microphones in the headliner that work pretty well for voice recognition. On my car the built-in microphones work better than holding the phone to your face and talking.
They were probably flying over the water. The only time I've seen helicopters flying that low in NYC is when they were picking someone up in town, or flying over the water.
It would probably work for a *very* targeted attack. A specific rev of a specific device running a specific OS.
Useful for spooks, not much for anyone else. There were a bunch of these kinds of hacks in the NSA leaks - a MITM attack given a specific version of Apache, OpenSSL, and a specific version of a particular web browser.
It would all be more secure if there were a backdoor engineered into the design so the government could have unfettered access to our data. You know, to make sure it's secure.
Extraction fees are assessed at the county level in Michigan. Usually they are for farms and golf courses.
Compared to the amount of water those two categories of users suck out of the ground, what Nestle is pumping out is practically rounding error.
I agree with you on the problems with fiat currency. However, I think you could make an argument that the value of Bitcoin in particular is the integrity of the blockchain and the wide-spread usage of it's clients. As tokens of authenticity, they do have some value.
I think the underlying issue with Bitcoin is that it isn't easy to nail down as any one particular thing. It has some properties of a currency and can be used as one, but it really isn't a currency in the traditional sense. It's kind of like a negotiable bearer-bond, it's kind of like a traveler's check, it's partially a p2p network and sort of like a Keberos token. But it isn't exactly like any one of those things.
Also, in nearly all of the renditions I've seen, it's been used in a satirical sense, mostly to poke fun at anti-fascists, and, even more hilariously, at fascists themselves.
Seriously, a show of hands: in an age of gerrymandered, electoral colleged, voter suppressed, primary rigged, black box voting machine, foreign government influenced elections, where the guy who loses the vote gets to rule, who wouldn't give up their right to this meaningless exercise in exchange for the forgiveness of $100,000.00 in debt?
On the other hand, pretty much nobody in the establishment wanted Trump to win, he spent a fraction of what Hilary spent on her campaign, and he won. Not saying he's a good candidate, but there isn't a 1:1 relationship between who the establishment wants, and who actually gets in.
You're assuming the Cuban government is one monolithic entity. There might be a faction of the government that wants to mess with Cuban-US relations.
A huge chunk of their GDP, roughly 20%, comes from assistance from Venezuela. Thawing US relations might be a threat to that income stream. Then again, Venezuela might see thawing US-Cuban relations as a threat, as well, though I don't think a Venezuelan attack on US diplomats in Cuba would happen without someone in the Cuban government, at the very least, knowing about it.
Apple doesn't subsidize their hardware by selling your private information to people.
Ever wonder why Google gives away Android?
Unless you've ever done a live demo in front of a lot of people, nobody can quite understand how freaky it is to have stuff go wrong like this.
A company I used to work for did a live demo of a brand new technology at a CES press conference once. Nearly every engineer in the company was on hand monitoring stuff. We must have done a dozen dry runs before the live demo, and that was after testing the crap out of it in the lab. We got it up and running before the presentation and left it running - no stopping or starting. It worked fine, but that was how freaked out the engineers and sales guys were over the demo - 'cause they've done them before and saw stuff go haywire for no particular reason.
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There was study done by the US Navy or Air Force in the 80's to see what kind of voice would work best for warning fighter pilots of various things. Higher pitched voices cut through cockpit noise and other distractions better than others, so they used women to record the warning signals.
I think the overall theme is that higher pitched voices cut through noise floor better than lower pitched voices.
Holy cow, I'm glad this information is front page news. This is groundbreaking journalism. No clickbait tagline here, no siree. All that's missing is the analysis on how devastating this information will be to the new iPhone's sales.
This should be part of a new series. What cables will next-gen devices come with? Do HP desktops come with regular round power cables, or those weird, flat, 3-wire jobs? And, most importantly, HOW LONG WILL THEY BE? If they include a 3-foot but I need a 4-foot I'll have to go out and buy one!
Seriously, is nothing else going on in tech right now?
I'm sure some have a wild, edge-of-your-seat lives, but many do 'conveyancing', which is a paper pushing exercise to do with house buying and selling. It's a job that could, and should be completely automated into non-existence, and one that a 'chat bot' could easily achieve - were it not for the insistence of various parties to post documents to each other.
I agree that a lot of buying and selling a house can be automated. Lawyers in the US are working on it, when we bought our house last year a lot of the initial document work was done through Docusign. The problem is, 75% of house transactions are totally by the book, probably 15% have things that go screwy, and 5% go totally off the rails for one reason or another. That last 25% is where lawyers come in handy. (source: all the real estate people I've talked to)
The first house we bought was in the "screwy" category. We retained a lawyer just to make sure everything was on the up and up. It was a probate sale and there were unpaid home loans, liens, unpaid taxes and multiple mortgages involved. The former occupant wasn't the owner, and was in jail. The listing agent also seemed pretty shady. It was all resolved through the courts properly, but it was good to have a lawyer involved birddogging all the legal proceedings.
People have short memories when it comes to weather, unless it's something really weird. We had a really nasty winter a couple of years ago, and people were freaking out about it. "This is the worst I've ever seen!" I remember winters from 20 years ago that were much worse, but it seems like most other people do not. I think the difference is that I like to ski, and it seems like skiers, being outside more often in the winter, recall the particulars about winter weather more than most.
Byte was THE magazine to read for general computer news in the late 80's and early 90's. I have a bunch of them and I re-read them from time to time. This is back when nobody knew what was coming down the pipe, or what would even work. You had document-based object-oriented application paradigms being tried out, all kinds of new languages, new processor and hardware architectures being tried out. Weird storage mediums (floptical? ZIP drives? MO Drives?) By today's standards, weird OSes being tried out (BeOS, OS/2, even QNX made a bid for the desktop)
Now the big research goes into what kind of screens the next smartphones will have, or how much faster the next version of the same graphics card you own will be.
Farnsworth invented video tubes; Baird invented television.
So what exactly did Baird invent? He got the spinning disc contraption from someone else (it was pretty old technology by the time Baird was using it) He used the image processing and signal amplification circuits from Arthur Korn. He used already available photo cells. There were papers detailing the possibility of transmitting moving images dating back to the 1910s and theories on how to implement it.
Baird was the first to transmit moving images electronically. I wouldn't say he invented television, the same way I wouldn't say the Montgolfiers invented the airplane.
Not because the addon is a security risk, but because Moonchild thinks the threat of losing revenue is more important than freedom of choice. Use a browser that respects your freedoms
Not exactly what the post said, but close. I mostly agree with his assessment of the plugin, and I don't see a problem with tweaking a config option to re-enable it. Heck, I wouldn't have a problem recompiling Pale Moon sans the block list if it's that big of a deal. To me, it isn't.
I'll probably switch to Pale Moon. Even has the old school UI that I like.
Current plugins installed:
NoScript *INDISPENSABLE*
GreaseMonkey
Nuke Anything
DownThemAll
VideoDownloadHelper
Of course Baird invented TV. That's why everyone used giant spinning discs to transmit TV pictures until CCDs came along.
Or did they use Farnsworth's video tubes?
I think you are wrong. Amongst the Americans who do think, I expect many of them think that Henry Ford applied mass production to cars.
That's what we were taught in school. I remember writing a paper about it in fourth grade. I think it was Daimler who had the first commercially available motorized car.
I've heard anecdotally online and from friends that Huawei's support is sub-Samsung. Meaning you'll get a few security patches, and maybe an OTA point release upgrade for Android, but that's about it.
Could be wrong, but usually support is the first thing to be cut to make a tablet or phone cheaply.