Gah! I posted so I can't mod you up! This is reeeaallly important! It's the second attachment in the FCC link in the summary. Page 2.
What prevents third parties from loading non-US versions of the software/firmware on the device? Describe in detail how the device is protected from “flashing” and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT.
I work for a fortune 500 company and we use DD-WRT on the routers in our labs. They will definitely hear from me!
To update the firmware, you should be required to insert a Windows '95 floppy boot disk containing firmware.bin and flash.com, then press the reset button.
Seriously though: wouldn't a simple switch be sufficient?
Is Slashdot modding up posts that judge science by fictional TV shows?
No goalposts were set since that show wasn't making actual scientific predictions. It was a pseudo-reality TV disaster show. People were even encouraged to send in their own footage imagining future disasters caused by global warming. It was called "Earth 2100" because the depictions of the year 2015 were just setups for the disasters that would happen 100 years later in the show.
IBM backs four of them, but they'll also be run by tech giants like Microsoft and SAP, major energy companies like ConEdison, along with hospital systems, manufacturing associations, and civil engineering trade groups.
This is either a new form of trade schools, or some kind of corporate takeover of education.
Years ago I used an email system that had a retract option. But all it would do is send a specially crafted email that requested that the user delete the original email. Nothing was more effective at drawing peoples attention to a mistake.
This is where the theory and the practicality collide. Even if the founding fathers intended for citizens to have the same weapons as the government, we cannot allow citizens to have nuclear weapons. It would be too dangerous. Of course, a nuclear weapon is probably not so useful against a tyrannical government anyway.
Thinking further, I wonder where that line should be drawn? Should it be okay for individuals to own armed fighter jets? How about aircraft carriers?
YouTube claims that I haven't been able to prove that I have commercial rights to this video of Superman.
I've never heard of YouTube doing this. If this is the US, then something is missing here.
If YouTube wants safe harbor under the DMCA, my understanding is that they can't require that you prove you own the copyright. Instead, they have to let you publish the content, then wait for someone to file a DMCA complaint against you. Then, once you file a counter to it, YouTube must allow the video to go back up. I'm not aware of any point in the process where YouTube gets to determine who owns the copyright.
You didn't mention anything about anyone filing a DMCA claim against you, so I'm totally confused where this requires to prove your commercial rights comes from. Ultimately, the answer here is probably "get a lawyer." Especially since you mention "commercial."
Yeah, if you don't trust the BIOS then you are not in good shape.
Yes, we would. We very much would. Such a "fix" would almost certainly end up locking you into one particular driver version, "helpfully" rolling back any newer driver you installed to fix additional issues/a
That's a strawman attack. I specifically said "installing a fix for a video driver that they knew caused lock-ups." You changed my scenario to "overwriting the video driver blindly" then attacked that scenario.
You hit the nail on the head. This is about perspective. In one case the owner doesn't want software surreptitiously installed, but in another case the owner does want software surreptitiously installed.
Both are to blame because there are 2 distinct problems here:
1. Microsoft trusts BIOS firmware enough to allow it to install arbitrary software on the machine. 2. Lenovo BIOS miuses the feature to install crapware.
We would not be complaining about #1 if Windows required user confirmation before doing this. We would not be complaining about #2 if Lenovo was installing a fix for a video driver that they knew caused lock-ups on their hardware.
Technically though, the BIOS could probably do this even without Microsoft's help, although it would be much tougher to implement.
This provides an easy, low-tech way to let the eyes focus more easily, and alleviate the strain that causes headaches.
So it doubles the number of LCD panels, introduces one that is a different kind from the other, and changes the rendering process. How is that easy and low-tech? (Maybe the software just looks at the Z buffer to distinguish near and far?) Nice job though. This seems like a great trick and might just be the start of something even better.
If you mean the Banqiao Dam that 170,000 number seems very suspect.
A 2005 book compiled by the Archives Bureau of Suiping county reports that more than 230,000 were carried away by water, in which 18,869 died.[9] It has been reported that 90,000 - 230,000 people were killed as a result of the dam breaking.
Notice that the 18,869 number is cited, and the second number is weasel-worded.
This isn't too different from our approaches to spam emails. But are these services actually used to share those kinds of images? I wonder who curates the list of hashes, and how long before someone starts adding pictures of stuff they don't like to the list.
512!?!?! That just shows how the start menu has been abused since Windows 98. Microsoft can redesign the start menu / start screen / quick launch bar / pin to taskbar 100 different ways, but they can never sole the problem of stupid installers that create:
FooCorp Software\ FooCorp Software\Foo\ FooCorp Software\Foo\Launch Foo FooCorp Software\Foo\Uninstall Foo FooCorp Software\Foo\Readme.txt FooCorp Software\Foo\Other great offers from FooCorp
512 ought to be plenty, if it weren't for this kind of garbage.
Yeah. I didn't look at what countries the reports were based on. I wonder what car prices are in those countries? What the subsidies are there? And electricity prices?
Anyone generating their own power probably tips the scales quite a bit. That ties into my "green electricity sources will widen the gap" scenario. Mr. Llewellyn is just making that happen today.
Personally, I work 6.1 miles from my home. So from one standpoint, an electric car would work great: I wouldn't even need to charge at work to make it home. But on the other hand, I gas up once a month (and I still have 1/4 tank at that point) and the car has very little maintenance. So it would never pay-off financially.
At present, the TCO is about the same because the lower maintenance and fuel costs are offset by the increased up-front cost. And that is with the government tax credits included. A search for electric car TCO gives dozens of articles that seem to corroborate this.
In the long-term, I believe the TCO of electric cars will probably become lower. I'm betting that electric cars will last longer, the maintenance curve will not increase as the engine ages, and that green electricity sources will widen the gap between gasoline and electricity costs. But at some point we will lose the tax credits.
Most of the results are tepid, arguing things like "hey, electric cars are NOT actually more expensive" or "well, it's about the same long term." but are hesitant to declare a clear winner.
When I was in elementary school my computer keyboard had a broken space bar and left shift key. I learned to type space as ALT+032 and used caps lock for shift. It took me years to unlearn the caps-lock thing. Video games were tough, but most were text-based anyway. In some cases I could hack the binary to use a different key instead of space (*).
And folks, THAT is how you learn to code. Necessity is the mother of learning.
Storage is fast enough that changes to most files can be saved directly to disk as they're made. When working in the cloud, this sort of "every keystroke saved" thing is already the norm.
Not quite: Just open a 500MB word document and insert a single character at the top of the file. Google Docs can't even handle this kind of file - delays are seconds to minutes. Even if it could work with a word processor, it won't work with everything. When I play MineCraft, it takes 30 seconds to save my changes. You can't commit my actions to disk at 60fps. Same thing with Photoshop or SolidWorks.
However, you made me realize that in-memory structures are vastly different from structures on disk to avoid this very problem. We might still have this problem even if storage was as fast as RAM, because our disk formats are usually optimized for size, while our memory formats are optimized for performance.
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Gah! I posted so I can't mod you up! This is reeeaallly important!
It's the second attachment in the FCC link in the summary. Page 2.
What prevents third parties from loading non-US versions of the software/firmware on the device? Describe in detail how the device is protected
from “flashing” and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT.
I work for a fortune 500 company and we use DD-WRT on the routers in our labs. They will definitely hear from me!
To update the firmware, you should be required to insert a Windows '95 floppy boot disk containing firmware.bin and flash.com, then press the reset button.
Seriously though: wouldn't a simple switch be sufficient?
Is Slashdot modding up posts that judge science by fictional TV shows?
No goalposts were set since that show wasn't making actual scientific predictions. It was a pseudo-reality TV disaster show. People were even encouraged to send in their own footage imagining future disasters caused by global warming. It was called "Earth 2100" because the depictions of the year 2015 were just setups for the disasters that would happen 100 years later in the show.
Here's a quote from the producer: ... we are not saying that these events will happen..." According to the linked article, some of the scientists consulted on the show didn't think the scenarios were plausable even in 2100.
"this program was developed to show the worst-case scenario
Let us not judge science by TV shows. If we did, I'd be complaining about the lack of robots with vacuum-cleaner hoses for arms. :-)
That fictional disaster show wasn't accurate? Shocking!
Is this the rebirth of trade schools?
IBM backs four of them, but they'll also be run by tech giants like Microsoft and SAP, major energy companies like ConEdison, along with hospital systems, manufacturing associations, and civil engineering trade groups.
This is either a new form of trade schools, or some kind of corporate takeover of education.
I want a big "Pizza" button at my local pool. Nevermind: there's probably an app for that.
Stop using GIF. GIF sucks. There are better options.
On that note, why didn't browsers ever decide to support MNG or M-JPEG?
Years ago I used an email system that had a retract option. But all it would do is send a specially crafted email that requested that the user delete the original email. Nothing was more effective at drawing peoples attention to a mistake.
This is where the theory and the practicality collide. Even if the founding fathers intended for citizens to have the same weapons as the government, we cannot allow citizens to have nuclear weapons. It would be too dangerous. Of course, a nuclear weapon is probably not so useful against a tyrannical government anyway.
Thinking further, I wonder where that line should be drawn? Should it be okay for individuals to own armed fighter jets? How about aircraft carriers?
I was about to call BS on you, but apparently you aren't that far off!
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YouTube claims that I haven't been able to prove that I have commercial rights to this video of Superman.
I've never heard of YouTube doing this. If this is the US, then something is missing here.
If YouTube wants safe harbor under the DMCA, my understanding is that they can't require that you prove you own the copyright. Instead, they have to let you publish the content, then wait for someone to file a DMCA complaint against you. Then, once you file a counter to it, YouTube must allow the video to go back up. I'm not aware of any point in the process where YouTube gets to determine who owns the copyright.
You didn't mention anything about anyone filing a DMCA claim against you, so I'm totally confused where this requires to prove your commercial rights comes from. Ultimately, the answer here is probably "get a lawyer." Especially since you mention "commercial."
Yeah, if you don't trust the BIOS then you are not in good shape.
Yes, we would. We very much would. Such a "fix" would almost certainly end up locking you into one particular driver version, "helpfully" rolling back any newer driver you installed to fix additional issues/a
That's a strawman attack. I specifically said "installing a fix for a video driver that they knew caused lock-ups." You changed my scenario to "overwriting the video driver blindly" then attacked that scenario.
You hit the nail on the head. This is about perspective. In one case the owner doesn't want software surreptitiously installed, but in another case the owner does want software surreptitiously installed.
Both are to blame because there are 2 distinct problems here:
1. Microsoft trusts BIOS firmware enough to allow it to install arbitrary software on the machine.
2. Lenovo BIOS miuses the feature to install crapware.
We would not be complaining about #1 if Windows required user confirmation before doing this.
We would not be complaining about #2 if Lenovo was installing a fix for a video driver that they knew caused lock-ups on their hardware.
Technically though, the BIOS could probably do this even without Microsoft's help, although it would be much tougher to implement.
This provides an easy, low-tech way to let the eyes focus more easily, and alleviate the strain that causes headaches.
So it doubles the number of LCD panels, introduces one that is a different kind from the other, and changes the rendering process. How is that easy and low-tech? (Maybe the software just looks at the Z buffer to distinguish near and far?) Nice job though. This seems like a great trick and might just be the start of something even better.
If you mean the Banqiao Dam that 170,000 number seems very suspect.
A 2005 book compiled by the Archives Bureau of Suiping county reports that more than 230,000 were carried away by water, in which 18,869 died.[9] It has been reported that 90,000 - 230,000 people were killed as a result of the dam breaking.
Notice that the 18,869 number is cited, and the second number is weasel-worded.
This isn't too different from our approaches to spam emails. But are these services actually used to share those kinds of images? I wonder who curates the list of hashes, and how long before someone starts adding pictures of stuff they don't like to the list.
512!?!?! That just shows how the start menu has been abused since Windows 98. Microsoft can redesign the start menu / start screen / quick launch bar / pin to taskbar 100 different ways, but they can never sole the problem of stupid installers that create:
FooCorp Software\
FooCorp Software\Foo\
FooCorp Software\Foo\Launch Foo
FooCorp Software\Foo\Uninstall Foo
FooCorp Software\Foo\Readme.txt
FooCorp Software\Foo\Other great offers from FooCorp
512 ought to be plenty, if it weren't for this kind of garbage.
Most (not all) Intel drives are higher priced because they use SLC memory. Prior to 2014, I believe all Intel drives were SLC.
grasshopper said the data loss. I would have said the firmware issues that lead to performance problems with their EVO line of SSDs.
Yeah. I didn't look at what countries the reports were based on. I wonder what car prices are in those countries? What the subsidies are there? And electricity prices?
Anyone generating their own power probably tips the scales quite a bit. That ties into my "green electricity sources will widen the gap" scenario. Mr. Llewellyn is just making that happen today.
Personally, I work 6.1 miles from my home. So from one standpoint, an electric car would work great: I wouldn't even need to charge at work to make it home. But on the other hand, I gas up once a month (and I still have 1/4 tank at that point) and the car has very little maintenance. So it would never pay-off financially.
At present, the TCO is about the same because the lower maintenance and fuel costs are offset by the increased up-front cost. And that is with the government tax credits included. A search for electric car TCO gives dozens of articles that seem to corroborate this.
In the long-term, I believe the TCO of electric cars will probably become lower. I'm betting that electric cars will last longer, the maintenance curve will not increase as the engine ages, and that green electricity sources will widen the gap between gasoline and electricity costs. But at some point we will lose the tax credits.
Just so no one thinks I'm cherry picking my search results: Here are the first 6 Google hits (other than PDFs) and they all agree:
http://www.plugincars.com/tota...
http://www.pluginamerica.org/d...
http://tdworld.com/site-files/...
http://www.greentechmedia.com/...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/to...
Most of the results are tepid, arguing things like "hey, electric cars are NOT actually more expensive" or "well, it's about the same long term." but are hesitant to declare a clear winner.
When I was in elementary school my computer keyboard had a broken space bar and left shift key. I learned to type space as ALT+032 and used caps lock for shift. It took me years to unlearn the caps-lock thing. Video games were tough, but most were text-based anyway. In some cases I could hack the binary to use a different key instead of space (*).
And folks, THAT is how you learn to code. Necessity is the mother of learning.
Every sentence in that post is complete BS. It sucks that it got modded to 5 so now I have to go searching for references to refute it.
I'll pick the gun control one since that is easy:
Until only several years ago, the Second Amendment to the US Constitution was _never_ considered a personal right as a matter of law
Easiest hit: Wikipedia on early commentary on the second amendment. Another one is U.S. Supreme Court Cases on the second amendment. There is plenty of commentary regarding the second amendment's status as a personal right within 10 years of it's writing. Case law goes back to the 1800s.
Storage is fast enough that changes to most files can be saved directly to disk as they're made. When working in the cloud, this sort of "every keystroke saved" thing is already the norm.
Not quite: Just open a 500MB word document and insert a single character at the top of the file. Google Docs can't even handle this kind of file - delays are seconds to minutes. Even if it could work with a word processor, it won't work with everything. When I play MineCraft, it takes 30 seconds to save my changes. You can't commit my actions to disk at 60fps. Same thing with Photoshop or SolidWorks.
However, you made me realize that in-memory structures are vastly different from structures on disk to avoid this very problem. We might still have this problem even if storage was as fast as RAM, because our disk formats are usually optimized for size, while our memory formats are optimized for performance.