There is a reason some of those items are pricey. A well designed power supply includes large capacitors and a good heat sink and margin of errors and safeties for out of spec components, brownouts or spikes. There is also space on the circuit boards so the line voltage of 110/220VAC doesn't become part of the rest of the circuit.
Some of these counterfeits actually run components that are underpowered (e.g. a 3A regulator will often do 5A as long as you have thermal capacity), are simply removing capacitors and fuses to save costs. Also they often put up UL certificates without owning them and have traces that are both too thin and too close so as to become a safety issue under stressed conditions.
Average retirement is ~18 years, so if you had $500,000 properly invested and retired today, you could live a modest life somewhere in a quiet area of the US with minimum Social Security benefits. Most retirees at that income level will also have a small part time job or small business to supplement their income.
Within 20-30 years (when you actually are going to retire) $500k indeed won't cut it. By then SS will have collapsed if the US keeps up it's current course as will any other social backup net currently in existence so 2M is probably a very modest minimum to have.
So if Twitter rules don't prohibit such messages, only against individuals and harassment, it would be okay to say "Kill all black people", "white power" etc. - none of those are against a single individual nor harassment.
And just looking up those hashtags doesn't look all too much of a joke, people are taking these hashtags serious in the form of <complaint about a white person> "kill all white people".
NSA = domestic surveillance CIA = foreign surveillance The NSA has no reason to exist other than to spy on US citizens, for all other things (actual investigations) there is the FBI, police etc. Off course now it's all under the umbrella of DHS so it doesn't actually matter who is in charge, the spying will continue.
Our "enemies"? It's funny that the organization that exposed corruption within the Republican party about the Iraq war is being branded as an enemy for exposing corruption within the Democratic party about the US elections.
Talk about being influenced by the media - Russian involvement was completely spun out of nothing by the Clinton campaign and no evidence was ever offered. To date the only evidence so far about the source is a US dignitary claiming it was an internal leak.
This is not some 3rd world country, they make a livable wage or at least have the option of doing so, if not, the government will give it to them. Some people choose to live in a warehouse that has no stairways, fire escape or sprinklers. Some live in cars and tents, even in the middle of winter, it is very rare that across someone's life someone would be forced to do so in these countries, there are enough social nets and backups and aid available. I'm not going to feel sorry if they burn or freeze to death unless the government ordered them in there.
People in the US and EU/UK alike have the opportunity to have a minimum wage which affords you a small house and usually even your own transportation, there are enough work places begging for low cost labor.
There is no such thing as "free shipping". You can clearly see it on Amazon: an item through Amazon Prime: $11, from a 3rd party: $7 + $4 shipping. Free shipping is a marketing technique, you'd rather go with the $11 with free shipping than the $7 with $4 shipping.
They could release an update that lets the phone still work in emergency mode. Basically lock the people out of their phones by changing their pins to a random number, then have them go swap it out.
From more reputable news sources: every recount in every other state had more votes for Trump coming out, when Michigan's recount started looking the same way, the Obama appointed judge stopped the recount on a technicality which had been cited before but ignored: Stein has no right to burden the tax payer with a recount since she never stood a chance.
That's exactly why we need open source software. I'm a long time iOS user (for usability reasons) but anything I'm hanging my business on in form of mobile has to be either pure Linux or AOSP-capable Android. I'm even thinking about upgrading out of the iDevice for personal items given that Android 8 or 9 gets a usable input mechanism and AOSP hardware without ANY capacitive buttons (hardware buttons like iOS don't get triggered by hovering over them).
Yes, I do compile my own Android and will send back the device if it's locked down.
Then how does Symantec see such a huge number of attacks? It's the same broken argument we've heard for years: don't run as admin on Windows, you wouldn't run as root on Linux. Then why does every single computer get installed with admin privileges enabled by default? It's because the Windows ecosystem and ACL system is fundamentally broken.
If hackers suddenly start sending PowerShells en masse it is because they are exploiting a feature or setting that allows them to use it.
How do you think we "IoT" device makers are making money on 'free' devices or '$10/month unlimited storage'. It's not because we have a 2GHz processor in every device, these are the specs on the 'latest' "Smart WiFi/BT application SoC": 256KB embedded Flash and 32KB SRAM. Often these devices are made with yesteryear's chips that are half or even quarter of that.
And in that 256KB must fit: 2-4 web pages with graphics, the various triggers, motion code (send a picture to SMTP, FTP, SMB)
Obviously, but Pebble will still have assets and can thus satisfy their contractual commitments to their customers. It seems like FitBit is only acquiring patents (I thought the Pebble ecosystem was promised to be open source at some point) so Pebble as a company will continue to exist until it has settled all debts and claims. If there is an office building, or hell, a desk chair, the company will have 'assets' so it can liquidate those.
You're not going to find a 'good' IP camera sub-$100. Axis makes (or at least made a few years ago) some awesome devices running Linux, publishing sources etc. Some Netgear is good too although video quality is bad and getting sources is also horrendous. Other than that, I haven't seen anything 'good' recently unless you go old school analog and use a DVR.
Most of those platforms run on systems with limited memory. 200 bytes for 5 usernames and their passwords is 'a lot' of storage if you only have 128kbytes of it.
The reason we need regulation like net neutrality is because of regulation preventing new players to enter the market. I am all for deregulation IF you deregulate completely, not selectively. T-Mobile would love deregulation of net neutrality and the current "rules" don't have teeth to them anyway so I don't see why, they're still happily violating it. I would also love deregulation of the entire wireless market and the government to open the lines the tax payer has paid for. Pretty much all copper, fiber and antennae are heavily subsidized if not completely paid for by the tax payer. Sure let's deregulate those usage rights on federally, state and local levels and give them back to the tax payer.
Those are not the issues inner city kids face. The problem they have is an environment that rejects education as a virtue and emphasises getting resources for their own community, primarily through criminal activity and overt racism.
Ever given books to those kids? A significant percentage go home and have their books destroyed by adults because education is by and for white people. Ever hears about a kid expressing interest in higher education? Neil deGrasse Tyson has talked about it aso have many other scientists. It is actively discouraged as a white man's errand which could be much better spent helping their community.
I live and work in the inner city and my kids go to a school. The schools aren't bad, they are extremely well funded compared to European city schools and plenty of kids succeed, the results are bad because even at kindergarten level, I'd say about 25% of parents actively prevent their kids from succeeding, school is just a day care for them.
It depends on what you're trying to do, it sure isn't going to help you much programming a multi-core GPU, that's much more high level than these books go, the first books just go over 'basic' algorithms but a lot of it (most of it) is still very relevant in my opinion IF you're working close to the core, the code that ends up executing on a single processor on that GPU.
CPU and memory are still very expensive, especially on the mobile market and efficient programming and memory management is still very relevant especially as large swathes of memory is becoming scarcer. But there are still plenty of people using microprocessors that have no more than a few MHz and several kilobytes of memory.
Even the Arduino libraries themselves are rife with examples of such 'bad' programming, some operations unnecessarily take many more cycles than necessary while using a simple example in Knuth's books shows how to do it in one (such as bit shifts).
It's really great reading if you do stuff like program low-level (think C, Assembler), efficient programming or do stuff close to the hardware level (such as microprocessors). It describes the very low level of a program and a computer.
If you're into a higher level of programming (Java, C#, Python etc), unless you're building libraries for it, it is probably going to confuse you, most of the 'hard stuff' is (double precision, floating point, sorting and searching through lists...) abstracted away. Obviously 'someone' has to know how it works in the end, someone has to write the compilers, I haven't started on the rest of the volumes because that's not "me".
You should understand how computers work before you start reading these, I've been in the 'business' for 20 years, I've read it 3 times just to get a basic grasp on the first volume.
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There is a reason some of those items are pricey. A well designed power supply includes large capacitors and a good heat sink and margin of errors and safeties for out of spec components, brownouts or spikes. There is also space on the circuit boards so the line voltage of 110/220VAC doesn't become part of the rest of the circuit.
Some of these counterfeits actually run components that are underpowered (e.g. a 3A regulator will often do 5A as long as you have thermal capacity), are simply removing capacitors and fuses to save costs. Also they often put up UL certificates without owning them and have traces that are both too thin and too close so as to become a safety issue under stressed conditions.
Not really, in most if not all cases, you're still on the hook for paying for shipping the return and you'll have to pay a 'processing fee'.
Average retirement is ~18 years, so if you had $500,000 properly invested and retired today, you could live a modest life somewhere in a quiet area of the US with minimum Social Security benefits. Most retirees at that income level will also have a small part time job or small business to supplement their income.
Within 20-30 years (when you actually are going to retire) $500k indeed won't cut it. By then SS will have collapsed if the US keeps up it's current course as will any other social backup net currently in existence so 2M is probably a very modest minimum to have.
So if Twitter rules don't prohibit such messages, only against individuals and harassment, it would be okay to say "Kill all black people", "white power" etc. - none of those are against a single individual nor harassment.
And just looking up those hashtags doesn't look all too much of a joke, people are taking these hashtags serious in the form of <complaint about a white person> "kill all white people".
Look for these hashtags: StopPatriarchy, KillAllWhiteMen AllMenAreRapists KillAllMen
NSA = domestic surveillance
CIA = foreign surveillance
The NSA has no reason to exist other than to spy on US citizens, for all other things (actual investigations) there is the FBI, police etc.
Off course now it's all under the umbrella of DHS so it doesn't actually matter who is in charge, the spying will continue.
Our "enemies"? It's funny that the organization that exposed corruption within the Republican party about the Iraq war is being branded as an enemy for exposing corruption within the Democratic party about the US elections.
Talk about being influenced by the media - Russian involvement was completely spun out of nothing by the Clinton campaign and no evidence was ever offered. To date the only evidence so far about the source is a US dignitary claiming it was an internal leak.
Trump had some criticism about Cuba's government so Cuba is now a 'good' example of governance according to the media.
This is not some 3rd world country, they make a livable wage or at least have the option of doing so, if not, the government will give it to them. Some people choose to live in a warehouse that has no stairways, fire escape or sprinklers. Some live in cars and tents, even in the middle of winter, it is very rare that across someone's life someone would be forced to do so in these countries, there are enough social nets and backups and aid available. I'm not going to feel sorry if they burn or freeze to death unless the government ordered them in there.
People in the US and EU/UK alike have the opportunity to have a minimum wage which affords you a small house and usually even your own transportation, there are enough work places begging for low cost labor.
There is no such thing as "free shipping". You can clearly see it on Amazon: an item through Amazon Prime: $11, from a 3rd party: $7 + $4 shipping. Free shipping is a marketing technique, you'd rather go with the $11 with free shipping than the $7 with $4 shipping.
They could release an update that lets the phone still work in emergency mode. Basically lock the people out of their phones by changing their pins to a random number, then have them go swap it out.
From more reputable news sources: every recount in every other state had more votes for Trump coming out, when Michigan's recount started looking the same way, the Obama appointed judge stopped the recount on a technicality which had been cited before but ignored: Stein has no right to burden the tax payer with a recount since she never stood a chance.
That's exactly why we need open source software. I'm a long time iOS user (for usability reasons) but anything I'm hanging my business on in form of mobile has to be either pure Linux or AOSP-capable Android. I'm even thinking about upgrading out of the iDevice for personal items given that Android 8 or 9 gets a usable input mechanism and AOSP hardware without ANY capacitive buttons (hardware buttons like iOS don't get triggered by hovering over them).
Yes, I do compile my own Android and will send back the device if it's locked down.
Then how does Symantec see such a huge number of attacks? It's the same broken argument we've heard for years: don't run as admin on Windows, you wouldn't run as root on Linux. Then why does every single computer get installed with admin privileges enabled by default? It's because the Windows ecosystem and ACL system is fundamentally broken.
If hackers suddenly start sending PowerShells en masse it is because they are exploiting a feature or setting that allows them to use it.
How do you think we "IoT" device makers are making money on 'free' devices or '$10/month unlimited storage'. It's not because we have a 2GHz processor in every device, these are the specs on the 'latest' "Smart WiFi/BT application SoC": 256KB embedded Flash and 32KB SRAM. Often these devices are made with yesteryear's chips that are half or even quarter of that.
And in that 256KB must fit: 2-4 web pages with graphics, the various triggers, motion code (send a picture to SMTP, FTP, SMB)
Obviously, but Pebble will still have assets and can thus satisfy their contractual commitments to their customers. It seems like FitBit is only acquiring patents (I thought the Pebble ecosystem was promised to be open source at some point) so Pebble as a company will continue to exist until it has settled all debts and claims. If there is an office building, or hell, a desk chair, the company will have 'assets' so it can liquidate those.
You can't just disband a company and *poof* all your debts are gone.
You're not going to find a 'good' IP camera sub-$100. Axis makes (or at least made a few years ago) some awesome devices running Linux, publishing sources etc. Some Netgear is good too although video quality is bad and getting sources is also horrendous. Other than that, I haven't seen anything 'good' recently unless you go old school analog and use a DVR.
Most of those platforms run on systems with limited memory. 200 bytes for 5 usernames and their passwords is 'a lot' of storage if you only have 128kbytes of it.
So Pebble (the company) continues to exist (perhaps in receivership) until all it's debtors (which includes warranties) are satisfied.
The reason we need regulation like net neutrality is because of regulation preventing new players to enter the market. I am all for deregulation IF you deregulate completely, not selectively. T-Mobile would love deregulation of net neutrality and the current "rules" don't have teeth to them anyway so I don't see why, they're still happily violating it. I would also love deregulation of the entire wireless market and the government to open the lines the tax payer has paid for. Pretty much all copper, fiber and antennae are heavily subsidized if not completely paid for by the tax payer. Sure let's deregulate those usage rights on federally, state and local levels and give them back to the tax payer.
Those are not the issues inner city kids face. The problem they have is an environment that rejects education as a virtue and emphasises getting resources for their own community, primarily through criminal activity and overt racism.
Ever given books to those kids? A significant percentage go home and have their books destroyed by adults because education is by and for white people.
Ever hears about a kid expressing interest in higher education? Neil deGrasse Tyson has talked about it aso have many other scientists. It is actively discouraged as a white man's errand which could be much better spent helping their community.
I live and work in the inner city and my kids go to a school. The schools aren't bad, they are extremely well funded compared to European city schools and plenty of kids succeed, the results are bad because even at kindergarten level, I'd say about 25% of parents actively prevent their kids from succeeding, school is just a day care for them.
It depends on what you're trying to do, it sure isn't going to help you much programming a multi-core GPU, that's much more high level than these books go, the first books just go over 'basic' algorithms but a lot of it (most of it) is still very relevant in my opinion IF you're working close to the core, the code that ends up executing on a single processor on that GPU.
CPU and memory are still very expensive, especially on the mobile market and efficient programming and memory management is still very relevant especially as large swathes of memory is becoming scarcer. But there are still plenty of people using microprocessors that have no more than a few MHz and several kilobytes of memory.
Even the Arduino libraries themselves are rife with examples of such 'bad' programming, some operations unnecessarily take many more cycles than necessary while using a simple example in Knuth's books shows how to do it in one (such as bit shifts).
It's really great reading if you do stuff like program low-level (think C, Assembler), efficient programming or do stuff close to the hardware level (such as microprocessors). It describes the very low level of a program and a computer.
If you're into a higher level of programming (Java, C#, Python etc), unless you're building libraries for it, it is probably going to confuse you, most of the 'hard stuff' is (double precision, floating point, sorting and searching through lists ...) abstracted away. Obviously 'someone' has to know how it works in the end, someone has to write the compilers, I haven't started on the rest of the volumes because that's not "me".
You should understand how computers work before you start reading these, I've been in the 'business' for 20 years, I've read it 3 times just to get a basic grasp on the first volume.