Are you telling me that the standard practice of just giving a lot of money to politicians to get the laws they want is no longer working?
It strikes me as too much to hope that the typical voter gives a rat's ass about the cost of repairs at "authorized" outlets vs some local small business. So why bother with the scare tactics?
I will miss some of the Disney conglomerate content if/when they pull it from Netflix, but not enough to subscribe to their channel. I dropped cable because I had to have every single one of TWC/Spectrum's bundles to get the 8 or 9 channels I wanted. Even Spectrum's 20 channels for $20 (or so) streaming service is not worth it to me (10 for $10 might be). I will not get caught up in having to subscribe to several different services to get the few things I want from each of them; I will simply do without. CrunchyRoll was nice to get to the end of several series left hanging when I cut cable, but I'm even beginning to wonder about that one since I'm not finding much new that appeals to me.
The IBM PC was only developed because it drove IBM execs nuts to see all the Apple IIs on desks in Austin. BTW, the x86 architecture was, and is, a pile of crap, with Intel often not the best producer (NEC on the early chips and AMD on the Pentium); the Intel chips are only good now because they run the x86 in emulation on a completely different architecture, as the Amiga did in the 1000. What spread the PC to homes was that at a lot companies "you could not get fired for buying IBM", regardless of how well or badly they worked. As PCs proliferated in offices, they were purchased for use at home by those with the means (they were quite expensive, compared to the Apple II, Amiga, Atari,...) so they could continue working at home, often on pirated copies of same, also expensive, software. This provided a hardware base for the "fun" applications that, ultimately, could not be overcome, despite students often having Apple IIs in school.
Another aside on the PC/Intel thing: the only reason that the 8088 was in the PC is that, as a maker of third-class processors, Intel was going out of business, so IBM purchasing people overrode the engineers, who had designed around a variant of the much superior and mainframe-like Z8000, to buy cheaper CPUs. Further, IBM stupidly did not make MS-DOS a "work for hire", giving them exclusive rights, which, ultimately, brought in the clones.
The Amiga, OTOH, has a 32-bit CPU (for which Microsoft violated the software guidelines in their Basic, and broke a lot of applications when the 68020s and '30s were put into Amigas), rather than a 16-bit processor, meaning much more directly accessible address area, without segmenting and all of the "himem" silliness. As a much more capable computer than anything PC-ish until, approximately, Windows 3.11 on a 386, the Amiga had a large following in several industries, in addition to mainstream applications such as word processors (Word Perfect among them) and spreadsheets. AT&T had Amiga 3000s in their display booths for the release of UNIX System V Release 3. However, despite the greater power of the Amiga and its better price, there was no way for it to displace the "Daddy (later, Mommy, too) needs this at home, so it's what we're getting" of a PC or clone.
Finally, it did not help the Amiga, at all, that the management at Commodore saw it mostly as a cash cow and did not put much into mainstream marketing or to speed hardware development.
My '04 XJR is about as perfect a road car as I can find. Physically, I fit, unlike a Tesla Model S, and it is quite roomy; the large "greenhouse" gives me great visibility; it has sufficient power; it handles beautifully. Currently, because I drive long distances on obscure roads, an electric is not useful to me as an "only" car. However, as an alternative for city use, an electric version would be magnificent. Jaguar has a decent history of electrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_C-X75, as well as a current "Sport Utility" model https://www.jaguarusa.com/all-models/i-pace/index.html. A retrofit kit for a same model XJ would make much more sense to me than anything likely to come out in the foreseeable future.
If the cache is susceptible to random gamma rays, or, more likely, cosmic rays, and has no ECC, it is NEVER trustworthy, and should be permanently disabled.
It's like the Intel floating point bugs (yes, plural). Since the end user has no idea WHICH of the operations will produce an erroneous result, NONE of the operations' results are usable, ever.
Could be worse. Intel once had a "genius" purchasing agent that got a "good deal" on clay for the ceramic package of EPROMs. Devices didn't hold their state for particularly long, however, since the clay was mildly radioactive.
Once he's built his personally-useful tunnel, with free right-of-way, he'll have divided the western LA basin in half north-south. For anyone, including the current light rail/subway authority, to cross that right-of-way, is going to make him a lot more money than the cost of the tunnels.
The tunnels, themselves, are highly unlikely to ever be a useful part of of any useful mass transit system. The load-unload times, low throughput (despite the burst speed), and potential backups of the loading areas into public thoroughfares are all negatives of his system, and I cannot think of a single rationally-explained positive.
"Credit monitoring" tells you when new credit is issued in your name. As an earlier poster pointed out, the is like closing the barn door after the horses have run off. The damage has already been done.
Three businesses - Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion store the credit history of almost every credit transaction in the country. It is almost impossible to get credit without a report from them to the prospective lender and every one of those lenders forwards their history (balances, current payment amount, late payments,...) to them in exchange. The businesses will sell that data to anyone with the money, so many credit card companies periodically scan the data for prospective customers. In addition, since no real checking is done whether a prospective credit customer is really the person on whom the records are kept, thieves will take some semblance of identification to a lender and apply for credit, and the purported borrower is forced to expend considerable time and money to have that falsely issued credit removed. Locking the database is about the only way to prevent this, and, until THIS YEAR, the businesses were allowed to charge ridiculous fees to lock the records (the fees were charges to cover the loss of profits, and more, from selling the data).
Replace them with a P2P for creditors, and REQUIRE a signed hard-copy release from the credit applicant before disclosing any data to anyone with the penalty of forbidding the violator from engaging in any form of credit, permanently.
That would stop all of the credit-phishing searches, for one thing, and yt would speed up the checkout lines at certain retailers (Target, for example), since they would no longer be signing up customers for credit there.
Here in the USofA, April 15th is the "normal" deadline for tax filing, with October 15th for "deferred" filing.
How much of an idiot, or asshat, does one have to be to push Windows 10 "feature" updates, which, IME, ALWAYS leave the resulting system unstable (as do many "normal" updates) in April and October?
Over many decades, I have had influenza 4 times: once after a vaccination back in the '70s (US Army insisted; probably a coincidence) that lasted 3 days; once in the '80s, about a week; once in the '90s, again about a week; and a few years ago, lasted about 10 hours (fever, chills, very sleepy; I know it was the flu because my road trip companion tested positive and was down for a few days after Tamiflu). She just had a full week, while I stayed over to take care of her, but didn't catch it. In high school, my entire family (parents, siblings, grandmother) had the whole 7-10 day case, while I had nothing.
I'm very lucky, I know, but I'll keep trusting my apparent immunity, at least until they have a known-good broad spectrum vaccine.
In the early '70s, there was a company out in Santa Monica, called Compucorp (also an OEM for Monroe). They had a line of programmable (basically macro recording) calculators before either HP or TI, IIRC. There were a few models: scientific, bond trader, and surveyor, each with key functions appropriate for the trade. Big devices, as they used a 1/2" vacuum fluorescent display, and needed 4 "D"-size NiCads for portable power. Desktop versions had a mag card writer/reader to store the programs.
Although the scientific was later outclassed by the TIs and HPs (something weird closed the company in the mid-70s), there was a bit of a business converting them to surveyor and bond trader models; the latter very functional and cost-effective for that business.
Can you imagine even the smartest speculative fiction AI dealing the typical "I don't know exactly what I want, but it's something like this: and I need the demo ready in a couple of days for a sales presentation."
If anything sets off the AI revolt, it would be dealing with today's mangers and marketing morons.
The American civil war was NOT, as you were probably told, about slavery. It was an economic war about keeping the Southern states under the thumb of the Northern industrialists. Remember that the act claimed to have started the War Between the States was the firing by the guns at Ft. Sumpter on the US Navy blockading Charleston harbor. Those ships were there to keep the Southerners from trading their cotton to the British (who paid a higher price) for machinery (which cost less than USA-made gods). That was the government in service the the wealthy, a prime principle of the Republican Party (theocracy came in a bit later). Lincoln was the first president to enslave (forced conscription) free men to be soldiers, and he allowed the wealthy to buy their way out.
Why did the USA enter WWI, when Wilson campaigned on keeping it out? The industrial north was raking in big money selling to the British on credit. If the British lost, how would the debts be repaid? Not only did they give them millions of men as cannon fodder, bankrupting the Germans making ammunition to kill them, but the USA government then helped repay the debt. More government in service to the wealthy.
I tried to send some bank routing info to a business associate. Well withing their posted guidelines (it was a simple text file, stored in a passworded zip), but they did not deliver it to the intended recipient.
At the time (and, still, I think), it was more like an attempt to push me into using a Google Drive, which is never going to happen. Why give them time to brute-force (or try using Big Data to guess) the password?
A: the rich should be able to run the country to suit themselves
B: there aren't enough people who would buy that premise, so throw in theocracy to bring in the votes of those thugs
The rich hate public education; they send their children to private schools, and don't see why every else can't, too. Theocrats hate any education beyond rote reading, writing, and arithmetic, because their children might ask awkward questions if they were taught to think.
I have an XBox 360, and Wii U, both bought for a couple of specific title, but also to be used for media (the 360). The 360 isn't very good at it (lots of background hiss over HDMI, of all things), but, since I cut the cable boxes loose, I have tried Netflix and Crunchyroll on both. Netflix still runs better on my old WD Live than either, and Crunchyroll is buggy on both of them (better on the Wii U, though).
If a Steam Machine had functional apps (not work-arounds) for Netflix, Crunchyroll (Hulu,...), AccuWeather, and was as good as my Live for DLNA and NFS-attached media servers, OTA TV, and Internet radio (Kodi), I would buy one for that. I can't find any info on Steam's site to say it does.
Unless he reported it to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he has no protection under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Maybe (just maybe) he can still recover under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but that is trickier. Hope he has a competent lawyer and deeper pockets than Tesla (yeah, right).
Diebold's CEO promised to deliver Ohio to Bush, and in contradiction to the exit polls, the Diebold machines made good on the promise. Not proof (polls are tricky), but there was a "magic" card that could set the machine to deliver and specified result. Might have been a test card to check the the central server correctly tallied the remote machines, but production code should never have had it.
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Are you telling me that the standard practice of just giving a lot of money to politicians to get the laws they want is no longer working?
It strikes me as too much to hope that the typical voter gives a rat's ass about the cost of repairs at "authorized" outlets vs some local small business. So why bother with the scare tactics?
If you buy a TV that has WiFi, block the MAC; if it has wired, just don't connect it.
I have an old WD box for Netflix, which has neither camera nor microphone.
I will miss some of the Disney conglomerate content if/when they pull it from Netflix, but not enough to subscribe to their channel. I dropped cable because I had to have every single one of TWC/Spectrum's bundles to get the 8 or 9 channels I wanted. Even Spectrum's 20 channels for $20 (or so) streaming service is not worth it to me (10 for $10 might be). I will not get caught up in having to subscribe to several different services to get the few things I want from each of them; I will simply do without. CrunchyRoll was nice to get to the end of several series left hanging when I cut cable, but I'm even beginning to wonder about that one since I'm not finding much new that appeals to me.
Two things happened at the same time.
The IBM PC was only developed because it drove IBM execs nuts to see all the Apple IIs on desks in Austin. BTW, the x86 architecture was, and is, a pile of crap, with Intel often not the best producer (NEC on the early chips and AMD on the Pentium); the Intel chips are only good now because they run the x86 in emulation on a completely different architecture, as the Amiga did in the 1000. What spread the PC to homes was that at a lot companies "you could not get fired for buying IBM", regardless of how well or badly they worked. As PCs proliferated in offices, they were purchased for use at home by those with the means (they were quite expensive, compared to the Apple II, Amiga, Atari, ...) so they could continue working at home, often on pirated copies of same, also expensive, software. This provided a hardware base for the "fun" applications that, ultimately, could not be overcome, despite students often having Apple IIs in school.
Another aside on the PC/Intel thing: the only reason that the 8088 was in the PC is that, as a maker of third-class processors, Intel was going out of business, so IBM purchasing people overrode the engineers, who had designed around a variant of the much superior and mainframe-like Z8000, to buy cheaper CPUs. Further, IBM stupidly did not make MS-DOS a "work for hire", giving them exclusive rights, which, ultimately, brought in the clones.
The Amiga, OTOH, has a 32-bit CPU (for which Microsoft violated the software guidelines in their Basic, and broke a lot of applications when the 68020s and '30s were put into Amigas), rather than a 16-bit processor, meaning much more directly accessible address area, without segmenting and all of the "himem" silliness. As a much more capable computer than anything PC-ish until, approximately, Windows 3.11 on a 386, the Amiga had a large following in several industries, in addition to mainstream applications such as word processors (Word Perfect among them) and spreadsheets. AT&T had Amiga 3000s in their display booths for the release of UNIX System V Release 3. However, despite the greater power of the Amiga and its better price, there was no way for it to displace the "Daddy (later, Mommy, too) needs this at home, so it's what we're getting" of a PC or clone.
Finally, it did not help the Amiga, at all, that the management at Commodore saw it mostly as a cash cow and did not put much into mainstream marketing or to speed hardware development.
If you actually admit to a fault, you provide evidence for a lawsuit.
My '04 XJR is about as perfect a road car as I can find. Physically, I fit, unlike a Tesla Model S, and it is quite roomy; the large "greenhouse" gives me great visibility; it has sufficient power; it handles beautifully. Currently, because I drive long distances on obscure roads, an electric is not useful to me as an "only" car. However, as an alternative for city use, an electric version would be magnificent. Jaguar has a decent history of electrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_C-X75, as well as a current "Sport Utility" model https://www.jaguarusa.com/all-models/i-pace/index.html. A retrofit kit for a same model XJ would make much more sense to me than anything likely to come out in the foreseeable future.
Sounds like a smoke screen for something else.
If the cache is susceptible to random gamma rays, or, more likely, cosmic rays, and has no ECC, it is NEVER trustworthy, and should be permanently disabled.
It's like the Intel floating point bugs (yes, plural). Since the end user has no idea WHICH of the operations will produce an erroneous result, NONE of the operations' results are usable, ever.
Could be worse. Intel once had a "genius" purchasing agent that got a "good deal" on clay for the ceramic package of EPROMs. Devices didn't hold their state for particularly long, however, since the clay was mildly radioactive.
Once he's built his personally-useful tunnel, with free right-of-way, he'll have divided the western LA basin in half north-south. For anyone, including the current light rail/subway authority, to cross that right-of-way, is going to make him a lot more money than the cost of the tunnels.
The tunnels, themselves, are highly unlikely to ever be a useful part of of any useful mass transit system. The load-unload times, low throughput (despite the burst speed), and potential backups of the loading areas into public thoroughfares are all negatives of his system, and I cannot think of a single rationally-explained positive.
"Credit monitoring" tells you when new credit is issued in your name. As an earlier poster pointed out, the is like closing the barn door after the horses have run off. The damage has already been done.
Three businesses - Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion store the credit history of almost every credit transaction in the country. It is almost impossible to get credit without a report from them to the prospective lender and every one of those lenders forwards their history (balances, current payment amount, late payments,...) to them in exchange. The businesses will sell that data to anyone with the money, so many credit card companies periodically scan the data for prospective customers. In addition, since no real checking is done whether a prospective credit customer is really the person on whom the records are kept, thieves will take some semblance of identification to a lender and apply for credit, and the purported borrower is forced to expend considerable time and money to have that falsely issued credit removed. Locking the database is about the only way to prevent this, and, until THIS YEAR, the businesses were allowed to charge ridiculous fees to lock the records (the fees were charges to cover the loss of profits, and more, from selling the data).
Replace them with a P2P for creditors, and REQUIRE a signed hard-copy release from the credit applicant before disclosing any data to anyone with the penalty of forbidding the violator from engaging in any form of credit, permanently.
That would stop all of the credit-phishing searches, for one thing, and yt would speed up the checkout lines at certain retailers (Target, for example), since they would no longer be signing up customers for credit there.
Why would anyone dishonest enough to deny climate change be considered honest enough to honor a wager?
Here in the USofA, April 15th is the "normal" deadline for tax filing, with October 15th for "deferred" filing.
How much of an idiot, or asshat, does one have to be to push Windows 10 "feature" updates, which, IME, ALWAYS leave the resulting system unstable (as do many "normal" updates) in April and October?
Over many decades, I have had influenza 4 times: once after a vaccination back in the '70s (US Army insisted; probably a coincidence) that lasted 3 days; once in the '80s, about a week; once in the '90s, again about a week; and a few years ago, lasted about 10 hours (fever, chills, very sleepy; I know it was the flu because my road trip companion tested positive and was down for a few days after Tamiflu). She just had a full week, while I stayed over to take care of her, but didn't catch it. In high school, my entire family (parents, siblings, grandmother) had the whole 7-10 day case, while I had nothing.
I'm very lucky, I know, but I'll keep trusting my apparent immunity, at least until they have a known-good broad spectrum vaccine.
In the early '70s, there was a company out in Santa Monica, called Compucorp (also an OEM for Monroe). They had a line of programmable (basically macro recording) calculators before either HP or TI, IIRC. There were a few models: scientific, bond trader, and surveyor, each with key functions appropriate for the trade. Big devices, as they used a 1/2" vacuum fluorescent display, and needed 4 "D"-size NiCads for portable power. Desktop versions had a mag card writer/reader to store the programs.
Although the scientific was later outclassed by the TIs and HPs (something weird closed the company in the mid-70s), there was a bit of a business converting them to surveyor and bond trader models; the latter very functional and cost-effective for that business.
Can you imagine even the smartest speculative fiction AI dealing the typical "I don't know exactly what I want, but it's something like this: and I need the demo ready in a couple of days for a sales presentation."
If anything sets off the AI revolt, it would be dealing with today's mangers and marketing morons.
The American civil war was NOT, as you were probably told, about slavery. It was an economic war about keeping the Southern states under the thumb of the Northern industrialists. Remember that the act claimed to have started the War Between the States was the firing by the guns at Ft. Sumpter on the US Navy blockading Charleston harbor. Those ships were there to keep the Southerners from trading their cotton to the British (who paid a higher price) for machinery (which cost less than USA-made gods). That was the government in service the the wealthy, a prime principle of the Republican Party (theocracy came in a bit later). Lincoln was the first president to enslave (forced conscription) free men to be soldiers, and he allowed the wealthy to buy their way out.
Why did the USA enter WWI, when Wilson campaigned on keeping it out? The industrial north was raking in big money selling to the British on credit. If the British lost, how would the debts be repaid? Not only did they give them millions of men as cannon fodder, bankrupting the Germans making ammunition to kill them, but the USA government then helped repay the debt. More government in service to the wealthy.
I tried to send some bank routing info to a business associate. Well withing their posted guidelines (it was a simple text file, stored in a passworded zip), but they did not deliver it to the intended recipient.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?p=BlockedMessage&visit_id=0-636614072256826572-791915176&rd=1
At the time (and, still, I think), it was more like an attempt to push me into using a Google Drive, which is never going to happen. Why give them time to brute-force (or try using Big Data to guess) the password?
A: the rich should be able to run the country to suit themselves
B: there aren't enough people who would buy that premise, so throw in theocracy to bring in the votes of those thugs
The rich hate public education; they send their children to private schools, and don't see why every else can't, too. Theocrats hate any education beyond rote reading, writing, and arithmetic, because their children might ask awkward questions if they were taught to think.
I have an XBox 360, and Wii U, both bought for a couple of specific title, but also to be used for media (the 360). The 360 isn't very good at it (lots of background hiss over HDMI, of all things), but, since I cut the cable boxes loose, I have tried Netflix and Crunchyroll on both. Netflix still runs better on my old WD Live than either, and Crunchyroll is buggy on both of them (better on the Wii U, though).
If a Steam Machine had functional apps (not work-arounds) for Netflix, Crunchyroll (Hulu, ...), AccuWeather, and was as good as my Live for DLNA and NFS-attached media servers, OTA TV, and Internet radio (Kodi), I would buy one for that. I can't find any info on Steam's site to say it does.
Does it?
Unless he reported it to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he has no protection under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Maybe (just maybe) he can still recover under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but that is trickier. Hope he has a competent lawyer and deeper pockets than Tesla (yeah, right).
Diebold's CEO promised to deliver Ohio to Bush, and in contradiction to the exit polls, the Diebold machines made good on the promise. Not proof (polls are tricky), but there was a "magic" card that could set the machine to deliver and specified result. Might have been a test card to check the the central server correctly tallied the remote machines, but production code should never have had it.
Liar, moron, or just didn't even read the summary?
The data was wiped AFTER the suit was filed.
I thought that was the Canadian Broadcast Service or something, but from the comments, it appears to be a US thingy.
My "cut cord" doesn't have anything but streaming channels for video.
You mean like the requirement that all phones use a standard charger interface (micro-USB)? Not on any iPhone I've seen.