Russia under Putin has slowly been drifting towards becoming another North Korea. Putin clearly understands that the legitimacy of the Russian government is under question and this is how he wants to control every piece of information flow, so that he and his circle will forever remain in power.
The blame is on/. editors and whoever submitted the post. The original article is spot on and describes the history of chemical elements and Mendeleev gets the largest part of it.
According to the rumor mill it was Intel who persuaded the USB committee to rename USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 gen 1 since Intel added support for USB 3.0 SuperSpeed+ (10Gbps) relatively late, just a year ago, and Intel partners and Intel itself needed to flog their old technologically inferior products (chipsets, motherboards, PCs, laptops, etc).
Weather forecasting is a hard mathematical problem with thousands of variables which needs to be calculated to be precise.
The question is: does DeepMind AI/algorithm calculate the weather or it is just guessing it? If it's doing the latter then this guesswork is going to be pretty random and equally worthless, and I see no way it's gonna reach the precision of the known mathematical weather models. It might guess well in the short term (relatively few initial parameters), but in the long term I don't see it working well.
If I understand these two "vulnerabilities" properly, they require a piece of software installed/running locally which will steal/grab these passwords from RAM. However no normal/legitimate software will ever steal your passwords or access the RAM regions of other applications, which means this software is in essence malware which means you're already completely fucked and this software may just steal your master passwords, retreive all files, etc. etc. etc.
The longer the person lives the longer he might be a client of various medical/pharmaceutical companies because we're not getting younger and healthier with each passing day.
Jokes aside the Russian mafia elites along with their God Father Tsar Putin do everything to brainwash the poor Russian people into believing the country is the best in the world despite very low wages, underdeveloped industries, technological gap, huge brain drain, horrible health care (which is roughly 20-30 years behind the rest of the world), rampant corruption, poor ecological situation in many cities, comparatively low average life span, totally malfunctioning courts and police that mainly serve the richest.
The Internet is the only media that cannot fully control, so this could be a nice test of what else they can deprive the people of, so that the opposition has literally no means of revealing the truth about the inner workings of Russia.
You see, in many countries of the worlds there's mafia however as for Russia mafia has its own... state.
The only extensions that didn't make the jump were either abandoned, or those whose authors preferred to loudly complain and join sone "anti-WebExtensions resistance" instead of trying to work out a solution.
ORLY?? Mozilla really "collaborated" (more like decided to make concessions) with only the most popular add-ons to save their face and they couldn't care less about less popular add-ons like DownThemAll, Hide Caption Titlebar Plus, Status-4-Evar, UnMHT, Tab Mix Plus and hundreds of others which integrate(d) deeply with the browser.
How about rolling back hideous "modern" PC settings, making telemetry opt-in, vs almost impossible opt-out and having a normal release cycle, i.e. a new version each 3 years?
First of all, mostly likely the suspect has long gotten rid of the device and I'm not sure how finding his device in logs might help anyone (aside from narrowing down his whereabouts but then we have to presume that the CCTV footage at that location still remains which is highly unlikely).
Second of all, assuming he's not a total idiot, he could have modified his device MAC address which is possible for most Android smartphones.
Thirdly, this device was probably produced by Motorola/Lenovo, because F8E079 is their unique MAC prefix.
Fourthly, most people keep their routers password-protected which makes the task even harder.
Lastly, most Wi-Fi routers can barely keep more than a week worth of logs and they are not stored permanently, so reboot wipes them clean.
This might never happen because over time games studios start utilizing heavier shaders, better particle system, real time ray tracing/global illumination, better world destructibility, etc. etc. etc.
Also, you could probably buy a second hand 1080Ti for $500 if you look hard enough and this GPU is sufficient for 4K@60fps in most games.
If you play multi-player games where awareness and reaction are paramount (Fortnight, Player Unknown Battlegrounds, CS:GO, Overwatch, League of Legends, Dota 2, etc. etc. etc.) you're putting an extreme amount of stress on your health, as your eyes are looking at a comparatively small monitor, your posture couldn't be worse and your arms position is... let's not talk about that.
Yep, I guess the iPhone contains close to a hundred thousand different technologies and perhaps the most lucrative is the design/implementation of the A12X SoC.
What about drinking milk? What about eating eggs which are basically seeds and nothing else? Both don't really kill anything. Meanwhile eating nuts is OK with vegans. Questions, questions, questions.
They even tried with Red Flag Linux, and that ended badly. China is striving for hardware manufacturing capability, but seems to be unconcerned over software.
I suspect it didn't end badly: the Chinese probably got full access to Windows source code and they negotiated a deal with Microsoft, so that Windows Updates were controlled by the Chinese side, so that Microsoft couldn't push backdoors at will.
A win-win situation for all the involved parties: Microsoft still can sell Windows to China, the Chinese can still run all their win32 software without any compatibility issues.
When you think about it, nowadays you cannot trust any high-tech gadget/piece of equipment unless you 100% control each step of its development and production which is quite expensive and complicated for companies/governments however if you are an end user you have to treat everything as compromised by default and work from there. You might feel quite unnerving and powerless but that's what it is.
In this day and age I distrust by default any website which keeps my personal data like name, address, etc. and if I have to use such a website I open a private(incognito) tab in my web browser.
For some reasons modern designers are hell bent on making UI as opaque as possible and here at slashdot it's been already discussed multiple times.
I've found the only justification to this madness: designers have long become redundant but they want to be paid that's why we have new trends all the time and new design decisions which make the user completely lost.
For me, the best design was implemented in Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/7 OS'es without ribbon. The worst came in the form of Windows 8/MS Office 2007 and it's been all downhill since then. Too bad corporations just don't want to admit that and they still insist that there's one UI which fits them all which cannot be further from the truth as large displays with mouse and keyboard are a completely different mode of operation than touch devices with comparatively small screens.
I've reverted to 5.2.22 because the new version is slow to start (a 1.5-2 seconds delay), slow to launch VMs (by a ~1 second), slow to shutdown VMs (again an extra second) and looks very childish.
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Russia under Putin has slowly been drifting towards becoming another North Korea. Putin clearly understands that the legitimacy of the Russian government is under question and this is how he wants to control every piece of information flow, so that he and his circle will forever remain in power.
The blame is on /. editors and whoever submitted the post. The original article is spot on and describes the history of chemical elements and Mendeleev gets the largest part of it.
According to the rumor mill it was Intel who persuaded the USB committee to rename USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 gen 1 since Intel added support for USB 3.0 SuperSpeed+ (10Gbps) relatively late, just a year ago, and Intel partners and Intel itself needed to flog their old technologically inferior products (chipsets, motherboards, PCs, laptops, etc).
Weather forecasting is a hard mathematical problem with thousands of variables which needs to be calculated to be precise.
The question is: does DeepMind AI/algorithm calculate the weather or it is just guessing it? If it's doing the latter then this guesswork is going to be pretty random and equally worthless, and I see no way it's gonna reach the precision of the known mathematical weather models. It might guess well in the short term (relatively few initial parameters), but in the long term I don't see it working well.
If I understand these two "vulnerabilities" properly, they require a piece of software installed/running locally which will steal/grab these passwords from RAM. However no normal/legitimate software will ever steal your passwords or access the RAM regions of other applications, which means this software is in essence malware which means you're already completely fucked and this software may just steal your master passwords, retreive all files, etc. etc. etc.
Yes, bloody idiots.
The longer the person lives the longer he might be a client of various medical/pharmaceutical companies because we're not getting younger and healthier with each passing day.
Jokes aside the Russian mafia elites along with their God Father Tsar Putin do everything to brainwash the poor Russian people into believing the country is the best in the world despite very low wages, underdeveloped industries, technological gap, huge brain drain, horrible health care (which is roughly 20-30 years behind the rest of the world), rampant corruption, poor ecological situation in many cities, comparatively low average life span, totally malfunctioning courts and police that mainly serve the richest.
The Internet is the only media that cannot fully control, so this could be a nice test of what else they can deprive the people of, so that the opposition has literally no means of revealing the truth about the inner workings of Russia.
You see, in many countries of the worlds there's mafia however as for Russia mafia has its own ... state.
ORLY?? Mozilla really "collaborated" (more like decided to make concessions) with only the most popular add-ons to save their face and they couldn't care less about less popular add-ons like DownThemAll, Hide Caption Titlebar Plus, Status-4-Evar, UnMHT, Tab Mix Plus and hundreds of others which integrate(d) deeply with the browser.
How about rolling back hideous "modern" PC settings, making telemetry opt-in, vs almost impossible opt-out and having a normal release cycle, i.e. a new version each 3 years?
There are several huge issues with this call:
First of all, mostly likely the suspect has long gotten rid of the device and I'm not sure how finding his device in logs might help anyone (aside from narrowing down his whereabouts but then we have to presume that the CCTV footage at that location still remains which is highly unlikely).
Second of all, assuming he's not a total idiot, he could have modified his device MAC address which is possible for most Android smartphones.
Thirdly, this device was probably produced by Motorola/Lenovo, because F8E079 is their unique MAC prefix.
Fourthly, most people keep their routers password-protected which makes the task even harder.
Lastly, most Wi-Fi routers can barely keep more than a week worth of logs and they are not stored permanently, so reboot wipes them clean.
Available only for US citizens (to be precise to US IP addresses). A full list of movies/series is here: https://www.imdb.com/freedive/
Lastly, IMDB is an Amazon company.
This might never happen because over time games studios start utilizing heavier shaders, better particle system, real time ray tracing/global illumination, better world destructibility, etc. etc. etc.
Also, you could probably buy a second hand 1080Ti for $500 if you look hard enough and this GPU is sufficient for 4K@60fps in most games.
If you play multi-player games where awareness and reaction are paramount (Fortnight, Player Unknown Battlegrounds, CS:GO, Overwatch, League of Legends, Dota 2, etc. etc. etc.) you're putting an extreme amount of stress on your health, as your eyes are looking at a comparatively small monitor, your posture couldn't be worse and your arms position is ... let's not talk about that.
Mind that these mobile CPUs are first generation Zen (which is kinda confusing because people expected 3XXX to belong to Zen 2.0).
Yep, I guess the iPhone contains close to a hundred thousand different technologies and perhaps the most lucrative is the design/implementation of the A12X SoC.
What about drinking milk? What about eating eggs which are basically seeds and nothing else? Both don't really kill anything. Meanwhile eating nuts is OK with vegans. Questions, questions, questions.
I've heard something eerie similar on TED quite a lot time ago: Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other | TED Talk, and Greg Gage: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate | TED Talk. There are many other TED talks about the topic of plants' nervous system, intelligence and communication. This kinda invalidates the whole premise of vegetarianism but I don't want to argue about that now.
I've found this but I've never used it and I'm not sure if it can boost the mic volume during calls.
I'd do that for free!
I suspect it didn't end badly: the Chinese probably got full access to Windows source code and they negotiated a deal with Microsoft, so that Windows Updates were controlled by the Chinese side, so that Microsoft couldn't push backdoors at will.
A win-win situation for all the involved parties: Microsoft still can sell Windows to China, the Chinese can still run all their win32 software without any compatibility issues.
When you think about it, nowadays you cannot trust any high-tech gadget/piece of equipment unless you 100% control each step of its development and production which is quite expensive and complicated for companies/governments however if you are an end user you have to treat everything as compromised by default and work from there. You might feel quite unnerving and powerless but that's what it is.
In this day and age I distrust by default any website which keeps my personal data like name, address, etc. and if I have to use such a website I open a private(incognito) tab in my web browser.
For some reasons modern designers are hell bent on making UI as opaque as possible and here at slashdot it's been already discussed multiple times.
I've found the only justification to this madness: designers have long become redundant but they want to be paid that's why we have new trends all the time and new design decisions which make the user completely lost.
For me, the best design was implemented in Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/7 OS'es without ribbon. The worst came in the form of Windows 8/MS Office 2007 and it's been all downhill since then. Too bad corporations just don't want to admit that and they still insist that there's one UI which fits them all which cannot be further from the truth as large displays with mouse and keyboard are a completely different mode of operation than touch devices with comparatively small screens.
VMWare Player has been free for personal non-commercial use for several years already.
I've reverted to 5.2.22 because the new version is slow to start (a 1.5-2 seconds delay), slow to launch VMs (by a ~1 second), slow to shutdown VMs (again an extra second) and looks very childish.