That one of our preeminent research facilities would be compelled to hold an open house to show that they're not involved in "mind control" is a sad and embarrassing commentary on the state of this country.
Holding an open house will solve nothing anyway. The kind of luddites that believe HAARP is controlling people's minds wouldn't understand what any of the equipment does. They'd just see antennas and powerful computers and assume they were right.
So that $50 you found down the back of the couch, you're going to give to me right? Since you already lost it anyway, you have nothing to lose...
False comparison. This is like NASA found the $50 but is scared that if they leave the house to go shopping the money might fall out of their pocket and be gone again. If they don't leave the house they can't spend it -- so it's worthless, except to say "look, I have a $50 bill here at the house". If they leave the house, they might get $50 in goods -- or they might lose the money like they think. But they at least have a chance to use the money.
NASA lost contact with their STEREO-B satellite nearly twenty-two months ago when performing a routine test. NASA scientists are afraid to turn on the computer at this point because it may cause them to lose contact again.
What's the point of being able to talk to it if they can't turn it on and actually do stuff with it? If they thought they lost it 22 months ago, they have nothing further to lose if it goes away again now.
I wasn't talking about the video signal bitrate to the display, I was talking about the encoded stream average bitrate if a whole half-hour of video is that small (not to mention the audio portion is included in that figure). 60 MB is not a large enough file to deliver a quality picture, even with HEVC.
... If you don't embrace this you must be some kind of antisocial who probably should be on a Terror Watchlist.
More accurate. Law enforcement has for years looked on anyone who values their privacy or "keeps to themselves" as someone potentially dangerous. In a few decades maybe they will find a way to make introversion a criminal offense.
Earlier this year, Xbox chief Phil Spencer expressed desires to see a steady stream of hardware innovation rather than a typical seven-year gap between different console generations, noting smartphone market as inspiration
It sucks that you have to overpay for overkill hardware to avoid getting an unsupported bloated POS.
Buy an unlocked dumbphone and put it on your Ting plan. The phone OS is so simple and no apps -- so little way to compromise it. I'd just use a tablet for mobile browsing. It isn't a smartphone OS so it wont require much in the way of resources and will keep its responsiveness for the life the handset. The battery will likely be replaceable for cheap on eBay. And it will get shitloads more battery time verses a smartphone.
Ha, okay so apparently that link is from 2012. But this was just talked about recently, the story topic was some supposedly secure messaging app that wasn't that secure, or so opaque that it was really relying on security by obscurity and "trust us" mentality rather than evidence of how it was secure, but it touched off the same "where to next?" comment threads.
Apple laptops are not designed to be user-serviceable (or even necessarily third-party serviceable). You're not the the consumer Apple is interested in. Just buy something else and put Linux on it.
Pretty sure most people are worried about attackers other than the government.
Well thank goodness those backdoors only work for the government, and only when the government is doing the "right" thing, and nobody who knows about the backdoors has ever left the government and joined a criminal organization, and the criminals haven't managed to into government jobs ever.
I'd like to know if there are any plans for improvement to DLNA/uPnP media server playback in the future. I have at least 2-3 different media servers running on my FreeNAS for various media types, and I think the only time I see a uPnP server on VLC that works well is when I use the Microsoft Windows media sharing feature on another computer instead. Occasionally the program will pick up the presence of another server, but getting folder listing or playing back media doesn't work. These servers work find on my blu-ray player, though.
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That one of our preeminent research facilities would be compelled to hold an open house to show that they're not involved in "mind control" is a sad and embarrassing commentary on the state of this country.
Holding an open house will solve nothing anyway. The kind of luddites that believe HAARP is controlling people's minds wouldn't understand what any of the equipment does. They'd just see antennas and powerful computers and assume they were right.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Please be sure not to "talk back" while testing this beta operating system!
I thought Canonical stopped listening to user feedback years ago anyway.
If you thought Dyson vacuums sucked before, just wait.
So that $50 you found down the back of the couch, you're going to give to me right? Since you already lost it anyway, you have nothing to lose...
False comparison.
This is like NASA found the $50 but is scared that if they leave the house to go shopping the money might fall out of their pocket and be gone again.
If they don't leave the house they can't spend it -- so it's worthless, except to say "look, I have a $50 bill here at the house".
If they leave the house, they might get $50 in goods -- or they might lose the money like they think. But they at least have a chance to use the money.
NASA lost contact with their STEREO-B satellite nearly twenty-two months ago when performing a routine test. NASA scientists are afraid to turn on the computer at this point because it may cause them to lose contact again.
What's the point of being able to talk to it if they can't turn it on and actually do stuff with it?
If they thought they lost it 22 months ago, they have nothing further to lose if it goes away again now.
I wonder how much Facebook knows... about it's non-Users.
I'm sure Facebook doesn't have any "non-users" in its mind.
You're either a willing (registered) user or an unwilling (shadow profile) one.
How many cars do you have, Steve? Just curious.
Looks like about four, as far as cars go.
For some reason, when I was reading the summary, I kept reading it as "Saturn V" and I was like "since when is anyone building those anymore?"
we have certain patches that cause issues on our systems and others that are fine?
Even if patches are all installed as a single block, there's going to be problems if users aren't remove individual KBs as needed.
I wasn't talking about the video signal bitrate to the display, I was talking about the encoded stream average bitrate if a whole half-hour of video is that small (not to mention the audio portion is included in that figure). 60 MB is not a large enough file to deliver a quality picture, even with HEVC.
I don't think I'd want to watch a video with such atrocious bitrates, even if it was SD.
... If you don't embrace this you must be some kind of antisocial who probably should be on a Terror Watchlist.
More accurate. Law enforcement has for years looked on anyone who values their privacy or "keeps to themselves" as someone potentially dangerous. In a few decades maybe they will find a way to make introversion a criminal offense.
How does ANI work for billing purposes then?
Hail a JoniCab! We have to get to da choppa!
Earlier this year, Xbox chief Phil Spencer expressed desires to see a steady stream of hardware innovation rather than a typical seven-year gap between different console generations, noting smartphone market as inspiration
Isn't that an ecosystem consumers actually don't like?
It sucks that you have to overpay for overkill hardware to avoid getting an unsupported bloated POS.
Buy an unlocked dumbphone and put it on your Ting plan. The phone OS is so simple and no apps -- so little way to compromise it. I'd just use a tablet for mobile browsing. It isn't a smartphone OS so it wont require much in the way of resources and will keep its responsiveness for the life the handset. The battery will likely be replaceable for cheap on eBay. And it will get shitloads more battery time verses a smartphone.
Ha, okay so apparently that link is from 2012. But this was just talked about recently, the story topic was some supposedly secure messaging app that wasn't that secure, or so opaque that it was really relying on security by obscurity and "trust us" mentality rather than evidence of how it was secure, but it touched off the same "where to next?" comment threads.
If we could not ask the same questions every month, that would be great.
How the heck did you manage to beat slashdot's auto-link?
He had his post sent via antimatter rocket.
Apple laptops are not designed to be user-serviceable (or even necessarily third-party serviceable).
You're not the the consumer Apple is interested in. Just buy something else and put Linux on it.
Pretty sure most people are worried about attackers other than the government.
Well thank goodness those backdoors only work for the government, and only when the government is doing the "right" thing, and nobody who knows about the backdoors has ever left the government and joined a criminal organization, and the criminals haven't managed to into government jobs ever.
I'd like to know if there are any plans for improvement to DLNA/uPnP media server playback in the future. I have at least 2-3 different media servers running on my FreeNAS for various media types, and I think the only time I see a uPnP server on VLC that works well is when I use the Microsoft Windows media sharing feature on another computer instead. Occasionally the program will pick up the presence of another server, but getting folder listing or playing back media doesn't work. These servers work find on my blu-ray player, though.
How will I get my C4 to where it needs to be then?
With Amazon Prime, of course.
I hear they are even looking into using drones now to do speedy deliveries in limited areas.
Oh, wait...
Remove the rotor from the distributor... or you can always put a banana in the tailpipe
How many cars do you think still have mechanical distributors now?