Sure, that's a perfectly valid reason not to auction tickets. There is a very simple solution to that as listed in other comments - require the purchaser to be present and don't allow resale.
The problem is that the venues want to have it both ways. They want fixed (and low) pricing at the start, so they get all the seats filled up, but they also want the resales to pull in the extra scalping money (since they resell through the same sites these days). Either auction from the start (or this reverse auction thingy crow mentioned), or set a fixed price. They can't have it both ways.
Gifts: recipient must show ID, and you must supply their name. Limit max tickets per group, but that one person could then get 4 tickets (for example).
Purchaser can't go? Get refund and put tickets back on sale. Tough luck if they wanted to gift them instead.
HA! Love when someone says, "never gonna happen", to something that is already working just fine in the real world. More so, the bag checks take FAR longer. If they need to speed up entry, allow people to bring their own water/etc. They make so much on food/drink they can afford the extra stations to do the checks. No reason they can't do the same for verified tickets.
I don't get why this is a regulation/legal problem at all.
TicketMaster, for example, allows for resale on their site at a higher price. If this were only about protecting the consumer, they could simple say, "no resale". Instead, they get in on the scalping action while being able to distance themselves from it.
They could easily do fixed pricing, limit bulk purchases, and could require positive ID at the door of the purchaser. If the purchaser can't make it (ex. season passes, or something happens), they get their money back and the tickets go back on sale at the same price (or current market price if the cost had gone up since then).
Making bots illegal is a way to eliminate competition so that only the outlets they work with get to sell and resell tickets. The only good reason to allow resale via the sites now is to aid in getting scalpers off the street. If they cared about the market price, they'd just turn it into an auction for the majority of the seats; they'd rake in more money than allowing resales, and they'd eliminate scalpers entirely, and they could still allow resale after the auction closed for those that can't make it - those folks would likely lose out on some money, cause the market value was already determined.
The law makes no sense. And, as others have noted, mechanical turks would skirt the law just as easily, so it doesn't do a damn bit of good anyway. They need to figure out what they want, and do it, rather than trying to have it both ways at once.
WHAT?!?! If MS ported their UI and server software to (Ubuntu) Linux, how the hell would that calm any fears of them extending and extinguishing? That would be the biggest extinguisher yet.
They are unzipping the apk first. It's right in the summary. So the GP I replied to was referring to the files within the apk, and said, "a lot of the stuff that's changed such as images and sounds doesn't really work well with diff anyway". This has nothing to do with the lossless compression you mentioned (which, though I doubt they're doing this, could be diff'd very well with a slightly smarter diff, as they are lossless, so they can be decompressed first, then diff'd, and the diff can be sent and applied). That said, jpg's and mp3's within the apk would be difficult to diff if the original changed or the processor changed. However, if the original image or sound did not change, and it was processed (wav to mp3, png to jpg, whatever) by the same thing that did it the last time, then there will be no change on the file. If it was a raw file of some sort, and part of it changed, it should diff fairly cleanly.
... a pretty bad idea since, if you have version 1 of something, and version 8 is the most recent, you end up having to download patch 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, etc, and apply them all successively...
So the problem is obvious then, and easy to resolve. * calculate the patchset from version 1 to 8; from 2 to 8; from 3 to 8;... etc...; from 7 to 8. * provide the patchset based on their current version and target version
Alternatively * provide the patchset between versions, but if the user is further out of date, just provide the whole new apk. * TFS claimed a savings of only 65%, so sending more than two patches would use more than sending the whole apk. * Patches between distant versions would likely have worse results than 65% savings too. * You could even make it conditional, since you have the sizes when being requested.
I imagine that a lot of the stuff that's changed such as images and sounds doesn't really work well with diff anyway.
See the rsync protocol, which can be used by things other than rsync. For example, BackupPC uses it to transfer only the parts of files that have changed, which includes binary files.
When an individual company censors some stuff and it's within their rights, some grumble, but there are other outlets that can be used. This case has YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft all sharing their censor lists. This isn't a question of slippery slope, but cause we already slid. This is, "holy crap, look how far we just slid!"
The first amendment applies to the government, but that does not mean that it's not censorship when a company limits others speech, it's just that we allow it. It already was a loss of liberty**, but the scope just got a lot bigger.
** Liberty, the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.
But my radio in my truck does not have blue tooth...
While I would agree that removing the headphone jack is really really really stupid, this very small demographic of people with old car stereos that want to use their phones via bluetooth is not only negligibly small, it's also very easily and cheaply resolved via something like this ($15): http://www.monoprice.com/produ... Might take a minute to wire that in, but you'll have bluetooth in your truck then. It's kinda like the old tape player adapter so you could pipe your portable cd player output into your car radio. You can also go the other route and get an adapter (usb to stereo plug), which, in this case, lacks the arguments against the adapter ("have to carry around an adapter everywhere you go") because you can just leave it hooked up in your truck.
They were paid for their initial service. Then then sued her for between $100k and $200k. Her new lawyer did it pro bono. End result, their firm had to pay $26.8k in attorneys' fees.
How the hell is that "Loses Badly"?!?!? IMO, that's nowhere near enough. She's out with a broken back and medical fees that (I'm assuming) she didn't get back. Her lawyer lost out on what he should have been able to get. They're all out a ton of time and effort. Their lawyers probably still got a paycheck, and their firm just had to cover the bill for the time they wasted in the court.
The primary cost factor for wireless bandwidth is the wireless part (see wired networks and their unlimited bandwidth for far less money or, in cases where there is throttling, SIGNIFICANTLY more data allowance for less money). Since these zero rated services share that same wireless medium, any use of them will require higher data rates(money) for any other traffic so that those other services welfare the zero rated service. IE: it will cost me more for data for my own use, or for use for other non-zero-rated products.
The post I replied to claimed, "Fuel has to be shipped-in regularly, probably bi-weekly or monthly, while the batteries should be good for closer to a decade".
If the smallest tanker carries enough for 56 years of use on that island, then they certainly don't need a bi-weekly shipment.
Other posts quoted prices for the batteries based on real world numbers from recent Telsa installs. The were VERY expensive, and would need replaced within 10 years. I don't know where the break-even is, but people comparing it to bi-weekly shipments of fuel are being silly on the other side of the equation. They'll need infrastructure either way, and maintenance either way, and regular (yearly) shipments of stuff either way. I like solar, but the battery prospect for nightly usage isn't quite competitive yet.
300 gallons a day = 109500 gallons a year = 2607 barrels a year
So, a 20,000 DWT tanker can supply over 56 years worth of fuel to that island. If those batteries should be good for close to a decade, they would have replaced them 5 times before they need another fuel shipment, and that's not counting maintenance and parts for that install.
FWIW, I support the move to solar, especially for this island, but the fuel doesn't HAVE to be shipped in regularly. They could build a large storage facility and ship it in in bulk once a decade or so.
FWIW, the WSJ article from last October (2015) is where it was noted that it takes 5-10 minutes a shirt. I don't see any quotes on its own site regarding that, and the article from the telegraph doesn't directly mention it, but does have a caption on a photo that says, "The Laundroid robot can fold and sort a pile of clothes in minutes", so *maybe* they've improved the speed?
I suspect this robot is aimed at commercial applications.
I figured the same at first, but this gen is a machine the size of a fridge that can do 1 shirt every 10 minutes. IMO, this model isn't aimed at commercial applications, cause my local laundrymat does drop off wash and fold at about $0.75/lb (including socks!) with one or two active employees doing lots of loads all day. You need to have an employee there, so you might as well have them wash and fold. Something this slow couldn't compete even if there were 10 of them - it'd be way more valuable to put in 5 more washer+dryers and, if needed, hire one more person.
If this was way faster, it'd be great for commercial stuff. You'd still have to separate the laundry (only put in shirts, pants, whatever it can handle). Heck, make it only do shirts, as long as it was A LOT faster, it'd be great. If it was more versatile and cheaper, it'd be sufficient for home use. If you still have to do part of the load by hand, it's not worth it. Wrinkles also set while everything is sitting in a ball in the dryer (or in the drawer for this thing), so speed is still a concern, or you'll just end up with folded but wrinkled stuff.
Long term looks promising, but I don't see the market for the first gen:-(
Yes, you'd have to leave it on all the time. Which for most people is impractical.
You mean just like all the IoT things themselves, and your modem and router and dvr boxes and your roku and echo etc etc etc. A lot of connected home thingies have (optional?) central hubs which could serve the purpose of an always on computer for whatever purposes you needed that for.
The rest of the AC's rant isn't an argument at all. No desire to have an IoT thing is not a reason why others shouldn't use it. An always on computer is already solved though.
That all made perfect sense, as long as you ignore how the other big companies operate. I'm serious... that's the plan I'd say they should follow too, but that's not what the successful companies are doing.
... and that's why we're all so shocked that they're even bothering to release a new model rather than dropping out of the e-Book business entirely.
Who all is in the e-book business these days? * amazon, obviously. They're probably #1 * apple ibooks. They have no e-ink reader, but their ibook users won't buy another device for reading cause they love their ithing so much. I consider this a niche market, because no other hardware/platform is really going to win those users. * B&N. I'm 99% sure they are either #2 or #3, and I haven't looked at any stats. * Kobo? Or free apps and 3rd party or pirated books? Or the other e-ink readers that are hard to even find? Why would B&N exit a market where they're in the top 3? That's still a HUGE volume. Any of the others would LOVE to have that extra share. It's enough for them to manage a profit from it, and any bit that Amazon doesn't get makes them more competitive, so it's win-win to keep it.
B&N has been out of the hardware business for several years, with the possible exception of their E-ink model.
Good. IMO, they never should have made their own tablet. The e-ink reader is the book market, and they can make a nice app for any and all tablets (which they already have). The e-ink competition is amazon, and a bunch of also rans.
Heck, their latest E-ink hardware was behind by two major versions on the day that it shipped.
Amazon doesn't even run Android on their E-ink hardware. On the Fire tablets, Amazon doesn't support the normal app ecosystem (no google play, no gmail, no chrome, no firefox, no hangouts, no chromecast support, etc). AFAICT, you can't even make a bookmark onto the home screen, so you can't make a shortcut to the web versions of things. I'm VERY upset about that, cause I tried to make that a drop in replacement for some elder family members (the live support and cheap price with decent specs sold me on them... these shortcomings were downplayed by everyone I talked to, but now the tablets are unused junk).
GP mentioned B&N being a threat to both Microsoft and Amazon. If you look at microsofts competition in this market, it's essentially non-existant. I don't think they ever even had an e-ink reader, and if they had a book store, it was so insignificant that no one knows about it. Their updates and maintenance on their product lines has been pretty awful, with the exception of windows itself, where they went with the other extreme.
My point is, using the others as a model, B&N doesn't need to be a good company and provide lots of great support. It's sad.
... law... explicitly states that data on Russian people must be housed inside of Russia
Where did I say otherwise? The law does not say that the data must not leave Russia. You can house it there and continue to pass it on to your external systems. Ask your lawyers for confirmation on that, but that's the word I got.
You then flat out lie...
Come on... stop it with the accusations, especially when you're wrong:-)
...the EU law which absolutely applies to companies outside of the EU. US Companies must house data inside the EU and all data handling must be compliant with both EU and local laws regarding data handling.
The law is more complex than that, of course, and your statement is only true with a bunch of other conditionals. If you have a US company, physically located in the US, and all employees in the US, and servers in the US, you don't have to do jack shit for the EU. In our "global market", and when we refer to these large sites like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, etc, they have enough parts that touch the EU that they have to comply at least partially.
Then just type in 'cmd' and you are set. They aren't removing the application.
From the fucking summary, "Typing cmd in the run dialog will launch PowerShell as well". It'll still be fairly trivial to launch it, but not via any of the readily available and used methods.
Snow and ice tend to melt off due to solar heating. My roof is often exposed and bare when my yard is covered in snow, and I have light colored shingles and good insulation.
I don't know your situation either way, but for those wondering... look around your neighborhood** when there's snow out and see if any others have snow on their roofs. If other people have snow on their roof but yours has melted off, your insulation sucks. There are other reasons, but that's the main one.
** if you live in a housing plan, look at other neighborhoods, especially those with a variety of home builders.
IANARL, but AFAIK the Russian law regarding hosting data within the country has nothing to do with the privacy of its citizens data. As part of that law, companies are allowed to export any and all data to systems residing in any other country in the world. The limitation the law imposes requires a store of that data, or a log of it, to exist within Russia's borders, and for it to flow through a system within Russia before it leaves the country (or not). In this particular case (linkedin), they could probably get away with putting some frontend web servers in Russia, force all Russian users to go through those servers, and have those servers do a double-write of data - once to a system in Russia, and once to their normal systems.
The EU laws, on the other hand, help to protect PII data of their citizens. That data is not allowed to be stored on systems outside the EU at all (unless there are other agreements in place, or it's not PII, etc etc lots of fine print). In short, EU privacy law has more to do with protecting the data from external eyes, and the Russian law has more to do with Russia being able to subpoena (or the RU equivalent) the data of their citizens.
Another significant difference, perhaps the biggest one, is that the EU law does not apply to companies that are not located within the EU. However, Linkedin is getting blocked BECAUSE they are not located in RU.
Indeed. Boot the pc on a USB Linux, mount the computer disk, enjoy.
... and risk getting stuck at bios password. Get around that and get stuck at disk encryption password (usb boot not enabled). Re-enable usb boot in bios and unable to mount encrypted disks. Or, stick this thing in a usb port for a bit and get access to everything remotely thereafter. Never reboot a box if you can avoid it.
While this news isn't great, the encrypted image remains encrypted. If you allow your computer to boot to anything other than your main secure and encrypted setup, then someone with physical access at boot that has made it to that point in the boot process could simply boot to a rescue disk (usb/cd/network/etc), and then do even more damage. Also, since they have physical access, they could just pop out the drive and mirror it via any other system, or reset the bios (to clear bios password) and allow boot by other media. And if you had a bios password, how did they get past that to get to the exploit step?
This isn't good, but it doesn't seem to be a big deal either.
In case anyone was wondering, these are also readily available on amazon.com (the US site), and they're cheap and prime eligible. I'm sure there available elsewhere, but amazon was mentioned in TFS, so I was wondering if they had previously been globally banned on amazon or something, and just recently "leaked" in the UK, but no, there is almost no story here at all. Brexit my lawn!
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Sure, that's a perfectly valid reason not to auction tickets. There is a very simple solution to that as listed in other comments - require the purchaser to be present and don't allow resale.
The problem is that the venues want to have it both ways. They want fixed (and low) pricing at the start, so they get all the seats filled up, but they also want the resales to pull in the extra scalping money (since they resell through the same sites these days). Either auction from the start (or this reverse auction thingy crow mentioned), or set a fixed price. They can't have it both ways.
Gifts: recipient must show ID, and you must supply their name. Limit max tickets per group, but that one person could then get 4 tickets (for example).
Purchaser can't go? Get refund and put tickets back on sale. Tough luck if they wanted to gift them instead.
HA! Love when someone says, "never gonna happen", to something that is already working just fine in the real world.
More so, the bag checks take FAR longer. If they need to speed up entry, allow people to bring their own water/etc. They make so much on food/drink they can afford the extra stations to do the checks. No reason they can't do the same for verified tickets.
I don't get why this is a regulation/legal problem at all.
TicketMaster, for example, allows for resale on their site at a higher price. If this were only about protecting the consumer, they could simple say, "no resale". Instead, they get in on the scalping action while being able to distance themselves from it.
They could easily do fixed pricing, limit bulk purchases, and could require positive ID at the door of the purchaser. If the purchaser can't make it (ex. season passes, or something happens), they get their money back and the tickets go back on sale at the same price (or current market price if the cost had gone up since then).
Making bots illegal is a way to eliminate competition so that only the outlets they work with get to sell and resell tickets. The only good reason to allow resale via the sites now is to aid in getting scalpers off the street. If they cared about the market price, they'd just turn it into an auction for the majority of the seats; they'd rake in more money than allowing resales, and they'd eliminate scalpers entirely, and they could still allow resale after the auction closed for those that can't make it - those folks would likely lose out on some money, cause the market value was already determined.
The law makes no sense. And, as others have noted, mechanical turks would skirt the law just as easily, so it doesn't do a damn bit of good anyway. They need to figure out what they want, and do it, rather than trying to have it both ways at once.
WHAT?!?! If MS ported their UI and server software to (Ubuntu) Linux, how the hell would that calm any fears of them extending and extinguishing? That would be the biggest extinguisher yet.
They are unzipping the apk first. It's right in the summary. So the GP I replied to was referring to the files within the apk, and said, "a lot of the stuff that's changed such as images and sounds doesn't really work well with diff anyway". This has nothing to do with the lossless compression you mentioned (which, though I doubt they're doing this, could be diff'd very well with a slightly smarter diff, as they are lossless, so they can be decompressed first, then diff'd, and the diff can be sent and applied).
That said, jpg's and mp3's within the apk would be difficult to diff if the original changed or the processor changed. However, if the original image or sound did not change, and it was processed (wav to mp3, png to jpg, whatever) by the same thing that did it the last time, then there will be no change on the file. If it was a raw file of some sort, and part of it changed, it should diff fairly cleanly.
... a pretty bad idea since, if you have version 1 of something, and version 8 is the most recent, you end up having to download patch 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, etc, and apply them all successively ...
So the problem is obvious then, and easy to resolve. ... etc ...; from 7 to 8.
* calculate the patchset from version 1 to 8; from 2 to 8; from 3 to 8;
* provide the patchset based on their current version and target version
Alternatively
* provide the patchset between versions, but if the user is further out of date, just provide the whole new apk.
* TFS claimed a savings of only 65%, so sending more than two patches would use more than sending the whole apk.
* Patches between distant versions would likely have worse results than 65% savings too.
* You could even make it conditional, since you have the sizes when being requested.
I imagine that a lot of the stuff that's changed such as images and sounds doesn't really work well with diff anyway.
See the rsync protocol, which can be used by things other than rsync. For example, BackupPC uses it to transfer only the parts of files that have changed, which includes binary files.
... Nobody is forcing you to use Facebook. ...
When an individual company censors some stuff and it's within their rights, some grumble, but there are other outlets that can be used.
This case has YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft all sharing their censor lists. This isn't a question of slippery slope, but cause we already slid. This is, "holy crap, look how far we just slid!"
The first amendment applies to the government, but that does not mean that it's not censorship when a company limits others speech, it's just that we allow it. It already was a loss of liberty**, but the scope just got a lot bigger.
** Liberty, the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.
But my radio in my truck does not have blue tooth...
While I would agree that removing the headphone jack is really really really stupid, this very small demographic of people with old car stereos that want to use their phones via bluetooth is not only negligibly small, it's also very easily and cheaply resolved via something like this ($15): http://www.monoprice.com/produ...
Might take a minute to wire that in, but you'll have bluetooth in your truck then. It's kinda like the old tape player adapter so you could pipe your portable cd player output into your car radio.
You can also go the other route and get an adapter (usb to stereo plug), which, in this case, lacks the arguments against the adapter ("have to carry around an adapter everywhere you go") because you can just leave it hooked up in your truck.
They were paid for their initial service.
Then then sued her for between $100k and $200k.
Her new lawyer did it pro bono.
End result, their firm had to pay $26.8k in attorneys' fees.
How the hell is that "Loses Badly"?!?!? IMO, that's nowhere near enough.
She's out with a broken back and medical fees that (I'm assuming) she didn't get back.
Her lawyer lost out on what he should have been able to get.
They're all out a ton of time and effort.
Their lawyers probably still got a paycheck, and their firm just had to cover the bill for the time they wasted in the court.
The primary cost factor for wireless bandwidth is the wireless part (see wired networks and their unlimited bandwidth for far less money or, in cases where there is throttling, SIGNIFICANTLY more data allowance for less money). Since these zero rated services share that same wireless medium, any use of them will require higher data rates(money) for any other traffic so that those other services welfare the zero rated service. IE: it will cost me more for data for my own use, or for use for other non-zero-rated products.
The post I replied to claimed, "Fuel has to be shipped-in regularly, probably bi-weekly or monthly, while the batteries should be good for closer to a decade".
If the smallest tanker carries enough for 56 years of use on that island, then they certainly don't need a bi-weekly shipment.
Other posts quoted prices for the batteries based on real world numbers from recent Telsa installs. The were VERY expensive, and would need replaced within 10 years.
I don't know where the break-even is, but people comparing it to bi-weekly shipments of fuel are being silly on the other side of the equation. They'll need infrastructure either way, and maintenance either way, and regular (yearly) shipments of stuff either way. I like solar, but the battery prospect for nightly usage isn't quite competitive yet.
This thread started as a sarcastic joke, but let's get some numbers in here.
Tanker capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The smallest is 10000 - 25000 DWT (deadweight tonnage), and largest is 549,999 DWT.
How many barrels of oil can a 20,000 DWT tanker carry? https://onlineconversion.vbull...
About 147,980 barrels.
1 barrel = 42 US gallons.
300 gallons a day = 109500 gallons a year = 2607 barrels a year
So, a 20,000 DWT tanker can supply over 56 years worth of fuel to that island.
If those batteries should be good for close to a decade, they would have replaced them 5 times before they need another fuel shipment, and that's not counting maintenance and parts for that install.
FWIW, I support the move to solar, especially for this island, but the fuel doesn't HAVE to be shipped in regularly. They could build a large storage facility and ship it in in bulk once a decade or so.
FWIW, the WSJ article from last October (2015) is where it was noted that it takes 5-10 minutes a shirt. I don't see any quotes on its own site regarding that, and the article from the telegraph doesn't directly mention it, but does have a caption on a photo that says, "The Laundroid robot can fold and sort a pile of clothes in minutes", so *maybe* they've improved the speed?
I suspect this robot is aimed at commercial applications.
I figured the same at first, but this gen is a machine the size of a fridge that can do 1 shirt every 10 minutes. IMO, this model isn't aimed at commercial applications, cause my local laundrymat does drop off wash and fold at about $0.75/lb (including socks!) with one or two active employees doing lots of loads all day. You need to have an employee there, so you might as well have them wash and fold. Something this slow couldn't compete even if there were 10 of them - it'd be way more valuable to put in 5 more washer+dryers and, if needed, hire one more person.
If this was way faster, it'd be great for commercial stuff. You'd still have to separate the laundry (only put in shirts, pants, whatever it can handle). Heck, make it only do shirts, as long as it was A LOT faster, it'd be great.
If it was more versatile and cheaper, it'd be sufficient for home use. If you still have to do part of the load by hand, it's not worth it. Wrinkles also set while everything is sitting in a ball in the dryer (or in the drawer for this thing), so speed is still a concern, or you'll just end up with folded but wrinkled stuff.
Long term looks promising, but I don't see the market for the first gen :-(
Yes, you'd have to leave it on all the time. Which for most people is impractical.
You mean just like all the IoT things themselves, and your modem and router and dvr boxes and your roku and echo etc etc etc.
A lot of connected home thingies have (optional?) central hubs which could serve the purpose of an always on computer for whatever purposes you needed that for.
The rest of the AC's rant isn't an argument at all. No desire to have an IoT thing is not a reason why others shouldn't use it. An always on computer is already solved though.
That all made perfect sense, as long as you ignore how the other big companies operate. I'm serious... that's the plan I'd say they should follow too, but that's not what the successful companies are doing.
... and that's why we're all so shocked that they're even bothering to release a new model rather than dropping out of the e-Book business entirely.
Who all is in the e-book business these days?
* amazon, obviously. They're probably #1
* apple ibooks. They have no e-ink reader, but their ibook users won't buy another device for reading cause they love their ithing so much. I consider this a niche market, because no other hardware/platform is really going to win those users.
* B&N. I'm 99% sure they are either #2 or #3, and I haven't looked at any stats.
* Kobo? Or free apps and 3rd party or pirated books? Or the other e-ink readers that are hard to even find?
Why would B&N exit a market where they're in the top 3? That's still a HUGE volume. Any of the others would LOVE to have that extra share. It's enough for them to manage a profit from it, and any bit that Amazon doesn't get makes them more competitive, so it's win-win to keep it.
B&N has been out of the hardware business for several years, with the possible exception of their E-ink model.
Good. IMO, they never should have made their own tablet. The e-ink reader is the book market, and they can make a nice app for any and all tablets (which they already have). The e-ink competition is amazon, and a bunch of also rans.
Heck, their latest E-ink hardware was behind by two major versions on the day that it shipped.
Amazon doesn't even run Android on their E-ink hardware.
On the Fire tablets, Amazon doesn't support the normal app ecosystem (no google play, no gmail, no chrome, no firefox, no hangouts, no chromecast support, etc). AFAICT, you can't even make a bookmark onto the home screen, so you can't make a shortcut to the web versions of things. I'm VERY upset about that, cause I tried to make that a drop in replacement for some elder family members (the live support and cheap price with decent specs sold me on them... these shortcomings were downplayed by everyone I talked to, but now the tablets are unused junk).
GP mentioned B&N being a threat to both Microsoft and Amazon. If you look at microsofts competition in this market, it's essentially non-existant. I don't think they ever even had an e-ink reader, and if they had a book store, it was so insignificant that no one knows about it. Their updates and maintenance on their product lines has been pretty awful, with the exception of windows itself, where they went with the other extreme.
My point is, using the others as a model, B&N doesn't need to be a good company and provide lots of great support. It's sad.
... law ... explicitly states that data on Russian people must be housed inside of Russia
Where did I say otherwise? The law does not say that the data must not leave Russia. You can house it there and continue to pass it on to your external systems. Ask your lawyers for confirmation on that, but that's the word I got.
You then flat out lie...
Come on... stop it with the accusations, especially when you're wrong :-)
...the EU law which absolutely applies to companies outside of the EU. US Companies must house data inside the EU and all data handling must be compliant with both EU and local laws regarding data handling.
The law is more complex than that, of course, and your statement is only true with a bunch of other conditionals. If you have a US company, physically located in the US, and all employees in the US, and servers in the US, you don't have to do jack shit for the EU. In our "global market", and when we refer to these large sites like Linkedin, Facebook, Google, etc, they have enough parts that touch the EU that they have to comply at least partially.
Then just type in 'cmd' and you are set. They aren't removing the application.
From the fucking summary, "Typing cmd in the run dialog will launch PowerShell as well".
It'll still be fairly trivial to launch it, but not via any of the readily available and used methods.
Snow and ice tend to melt off due to solar heating. My roof is often exposed and bare when my yard is covered in snow, and I have light colored shingles and good insulation.
I don't know your situation either way, but for those wondering... look around your neighborhood** when there's snow out and see if any others have snow on their roofs. If other people have snow on their roof but yours has melted off, your insulation sucks. There are other reasons, but that's the main one.
** if you live in a housing plan, look at other neighborhoods, especially those with a variety of home builders.
IANARL, but AFAIK the Russian law regarding hosting data within the country has nothing to do with the privacy of its citizens data. As part of that law, companies are allowed to export any and all data to systems residing in any other country in the world. The limitation the law imposes requires a store of that data, or a log of it, to exist within Russia's borders, and for it to flow through a system within Russia before it leaves the country (or not). In this particular case (linkedin), they could probably get away with putting some frontend web servers in Russia, force all Russian users to go through those servers, and have those servers do a double-write of data - once to a system in Russia, and once to their normal systems.
The EU laws, on the other hand, help to protect PII data of their citizens. That data is not allowed to be stored on systems outside the EU at all (unless there are other agreements in place, or it's not PII, etc etc lots of fine print). In short, EU privacy law has more to do with protecting the data from external eyes, and the Russian law has more to do with Russia being able to subpoena (or the RU equivalent) the data of their citizens.
Another significant difference, perhaps the biggest one, is that the EU law does not apply to companies that are not located within the EU. However, Linkedin is getting blocked BECAUSE they are not located in RU.
Indeed. Boot the pc on a USB Linux, mount the computer disk, enjoy.
... and risk getting stuck at bios password. Get around that and get stuck at disk encryption password (usb boot not enabled). Re-enable usb boot in bios and unable to mount encrypted disks. Or, stick this thing in a usb port for a bit and get access to everything remotely thereafter. Never reboot a box if you can avoid it.
While this news isn't great, the encrypted image remains encrypted. If you allow your computer to boot to anything other than your main secure and encrypted setup, then someone with physical access at boot that has made it to that point in the boot process could simply boot to a rescue disk (usb/cd/network/etc), and then do even more damage. Also, since they have physical access, they could just pop out the drive and mirror it via any other system, or reset the bios (to clear bios password) and allow boot by other media. And if you had a bios password, how did they get past that to get to the exploit step?
This isn't good, but it doesn't seem to be a big deal either.
In case anyone was wondering, these are also readily available on amazon.com (the US site), and they're cheap and prime eligible. I'm sure there available elsewhere, but amazon was mentioned in TFS, so I was wondering if they had previously been globally banned on amazon or something, and just recently "leaked" in the UK, but no, there is almost no story here at all. Brexit my lawn!