And oil... ~$1Bn/month in oil exports to the US won't phase the US markets one bit... (as a matter of fact they already are, this tidbit of news is causing rising prices)
Who spends the night with a guy they don't want to have sex with that has already made advances earlier?
The whole case is ridiculous (including the retraction of the allegations by the so-called victims) and stinks of instigation. There is currently nobody to prosecute Assange anymore at this point besides the public prosecutors. The alleged victims won't witness (if their lawyers are half as smart as they should be) as they're no longer credible sources at this point, there are no witnesses and the crime is minor as in, every day there are probably people walking into a police office with those complaints and in most jurisdictions is not even considered a crime.
Don't forget that although Ecuador is small, they have oil (and bananas) and they are part of the UNASUR meaning all oil from South-America could stop flowing and they are also the lapdog of China much like Cuba was of Russia or the UK of the US.
Yes but 1080p or 120Hz won't work over the analog line and HDCP ensures that the WHOLE SCREEN will show static when any piece of it displays a DRM-protected piece of media and the output is not HDCP secured.
I work with high-def video in scientific systems and HDCP is a big pain in the neck as it will come on whenever and overlay static (even when no DRM is playing back especially in Windows 7). Disabling it is fairly easy but I can see where Secure Boot will refuse to boot Windows 8/9 if we don't have HDCP links.
RF frequencies at those levels doesn't do any harm and has been proven in hundreds of studies. 1.6W/kg is nothing as MRI's which have no side effects whatsoever can easily submit you to 10W/kg.
But HDCP is also weak and has already been defeated. Secure Boot could make it hard for instance to put in a driver that would accept non-HDCP links.
The problem is that Secure Boot is a solution looking for a problem. Boot-time malware can already be detected in software, is really hard to pull off, can be secured by not allowing software other than the OS to access the boot records and wouldn't be a benefit to anyone if it was undetectable.
Battery powered servo's are a heck of a lot cheaper than a stepper motor and controller. And that's what it's all about. If you want a real safe, get a real safe, not from Wal-Mart but from a dealer specializing in security. Sure they're not $50 but closer to $200 for the same amount of space but you won't get a decent safe under $100. A good rifle safe (4-8 guns) is at least $1800 and if you can't afford that you should invest in birth control.
The difference however is that if someone breaks into your house and steals your stuff, you are deprived of the use of these items. If somebody 'breaks in' to your *book, my* or i* they merely duplicate what you already have and usually leave your stuff alone.
I wouldn't mind if an automated robot came into my house and quantum-cloned my car for my neighbor to have one too.
I think in the future we will evolve to go either towards a completely closed society where nothing is connected and everyone keeps everything including knowledge and wealth selfishly or a completely open society where nobody (especially large corporations and governments) don't have ANY privacy or secrets and money is of no value.
The movies were always old, the TV shows stale, they barely brought out new content and then they decided to give a big middle finger to DIY'ers by packaging it in Silverlight and refusing to give any sort of API for integration in any Open/Free/Commercial product.
You must not be dealing with a wide spectrum of workloads then. Sure they're fairly stable under standard conditions (locked down workstation with Office etc.)
I see Windows (XP, Vista and 7) regularly crash (BSOD, hangs, critical Windows processes crash) under the non-office workloads though. Key issues from SP3 -> 7: Enormously buggy IEEE1394 (FireWire) support even with native Microsoft drivers regularly hang the system, high-throughput devices on USB (USB HID devices with Microsoft HID drivers) regularly BSOD the system when queried, and enormously slow and bad TCP/IP stack that doesn't perform well under bad conditions.
Also Windows 7 checking for HDCP and forcing it down your throat at random times (which when on DVI-D splitter will bring snow to one of the displays) even when the system is idle it will randomly decide to enable HDCP.
Agreed, I work in the scientific field and getting a 120Hz or higher display to work without HDCP currently requires a little box that doesn't support HDCP just to kill the signal. Without the little box (Gefen DVI-Detective), the HDCP signal won't work correctly through any type of DVI-D splitter (one side will get the signal while the other one gets snow).
I love when I can find a display that doesn't support HDCP as it cuts the cost of circumventing HDCP. HDCP is killing legitimate use cases and requires work arounds that aren't obvious.
I don't see why in a distance of 10 miles, you need 18 stations. That is roughly equivalent to every 1 km. In Europe, most light rail even in the city has roughly 5 km of track between each station and most smaller stations are raised sidewalks with a pole and some lighting. Off course, you can raise the price of anything but it seems that someone is lining their pockets there.
Well, we did cut the cord ($150 for basic cable, internet and phone service). My SO was also complaining about these shows and if we had cable we would have it on DVR or on Instant Replay. Then we went to her parents house and apparently none of the good shows she wanted to watch are on Instant Replay and the DVR won't allow you to watch them because the TV is not HDCP approved.
So you PAY for HBO and you still have to be there to watch the shows? I got them over Torrent though.
That seems tremendously overpriced. Over 10 miles you would probably have only 2 train stations. You can see 1 mile far, it's really not THAT far. For it to have 2 rails and some wood, acquire land etc. should not cost $100M. Are they using gold bricks as rails?
The problem is that the interfaces are not really well defined or anyone would be able to write a GPU, eg. open source developers.
Look at the problems (still) in the nouveau drivers and radeon/ati modules. From what I've heard, the problem lies in the older GMA card drivers from Intel which Intel doesn't (want to) release 64-bit drivers for. I have seen the same issues in Windows Vista 64-bit and I've heard complaints about the 7 releases too (very glitchy).
I don't see how you or any of your co-workers are remotely IT related. UEFI vs. BIOS? Really? Fiddling with images for that long? Using a Windows install straight out of the factory? Thinking that because there is a factory-installed Windows license that it is even valid for your institution (it's not, you have to shell out for an Enterprise-deal)?
And you're the knowledgeable one? I am imagining a room full of IT guys that maybe have 200 machines to handle (which, one person should be able to do by himself) and that simply buy solution upon solution because they haven't a clue how stuff works.
But the person that digs would have to pay the damages, not the end-user. And that problem exists with fiber too and although a frequent occurrence, it doesn't necessarily take the whole US Internet out or even the Internet for a city.
The problem is multi-fold - The government put the cables in a long time ago, sometimes during periods where certain products were scarce (usually because of war) and thus sub-par elements were used (aluminum or steel) - Privatized utilities got the wiring for free on the promise that they would expand and renew and have been collecting money but not investing it - No government oversight for the privatized utilities to keep on their promise so things have not been inspected for years - Patchwork as-needed repairs causing unnecessary losses and dependencies - Increases in demand, decreases in classic resistive demands - Most of the heaviest things (motors, airco) in homes still run on 110V even though 220V has been available in most homes but most homes haven't been wired correctly for 220V - Now that the system is on the brink of collapse, the utilities go with outstretched hand back to the government in order to have the taxpayer pay for it regardless
The problem is not necessary in the time representation, the problem is that when NTP tries to insert the extra second into the kernel, the kernel gets stuck in a spinlock (basically waiting until a lock becomes available which never does).
The thing is that NTP announces this adjustment to the kernel somewhere the day before so it doesn't necessarily happen at 23:59:59 GMT (although it could happen at that time too)
No, XP is used in so much environments for just about everything still. - Scientific tools are still mostly XP-only (or DOS still), Vista/7 is possible sometimes with XP compatibility but it's not guaranteed - Most corporate programs still run only on XP including IE6 - XP is fine on 10 year old computers without all the bells and whistles, 7 is a lot heavier on the resources and requires a more recent computer to run well even with all the bells and whistles turned off.
I am pretty sure I read a report stating that is how they DID do it. I'm not sure if they were impersonating the GPS signal or the command signal but either one was used to steer the thing to them.
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And oil... ~$1Bn/month in oil exports to the US won't phase the US markets one bit... (as a matter of fact they already are, this tidbit of news is causing rising prices)
Who spends the night with a guy they don't want to have sex with that has already made advances earlier?
The whole case is ridiculous (including the retraction of the allegations by the so-called victims) and stinks of instigation. There is currently nobody to prosecute Assange anymore at this point besides the public prosecutors. The alleged victims won't witness (if their lawyers are half as smart as they should be) as they're no longer credible sources at this point, there are no witnesses and the crime is minor as in, every day there are probably people walking into a police office with those complaints and in most jurisdictions is not even considered a crime.
Don't forget that although Ecuador is small, they have oil (and bananas) and they are part of the UNASUR meaning all oil from South-America could stop flowing and they are also the lapdog of China much like Cuba was of Russia or the UK of the US.
That's a minor fine, a little higher than a parking ticket and lower than a speeding ticket for us average people (.06%)
Yes but 1080p or 120Hz won't work over the analog line and HDCP ensures that the WHOLE SCREEN will show static when any piece of it displays a DRM-protected piece of media and the output is not HDCP secured.
I work with high-def video in scientific systems and HDCP is a big pain in the neck as it will come on whenever and overlay static (even when no DRM is playing back especially in Windows 7). Disabling it is fairly easy but I can see where Secure Boot will refuse to boot Windows 8/9 if we don't have HDCP links.
RF frequencies at those levels doesn't do any harm and has been proven in hundreds of studies. 1.6W/kg is nothing as MRI's which have no side effects whatsoever can easily submit you to 10W/kg.
But HDCP is also weak and has already been defeated. Secure Boot could make it hard for instance to put in a driver that would accept non-HDCP links.
The problem is that Secure Boot is a solution looking for a problem. Boot-time malware can already be detected in software, is really hard to pull off, can be secured by not allowing software other than the OS to access the boot records and wouldn't be a benefit to anyone if it was undetectable.
Battery powered servo's are a heck of a lot cheaper than a stepper motor and controller. And that's what it's all about. If you want a real safe, get a real safe, not from Wal-Mart but from a dealer specializing in security. Sure they're not $50 but closer to $200 for the same amount of space but you won't get a decent safe under $100. A good rifle safe (4-8 guns) is at least $1800 and if you can't afford that you should invest in birth control.
The difference however is that if someone breaks into your house and steals your stuff, you are deprived of the use of these items. If somebody 'breaks in' to your *book, my* or i* they merely duplicate what you already have and usually leave your stuff alone.
I wouldn't mind if an automated robot came into my house and quantum-cloned my car for my neighbor to have one too.
I think in the future we will evolve to go either towards a completely closed society where nothing is connected and everyone keeps everything including knowledge and wealth selfishly or a completely open society where nobody (especially large corporations and governments) don't have ANY privacy or secrets and money is of no value.
The movies were always old, the TV shows stale, they barely brought out new content and then they decided to give a big middle finger to DIY'ers by packaging it in Silverlight and refusing to give any sort of API for integration in any Open/Free/Commercial product.
You must not be dealing with a wide spectrum of workloads then. Sure they're fairly stable under standard conditions (locked down workstation with Office etc.)
I see Windows (XP, Vista and 7) regularly crash (BSOD, hangs, critical Windows processes crash) under the non-office workloads though. Key issues from SP3 -> 7: Enormously buggy IEEE1394 (FireWire) support even with native Microsoft drivers regularly hang the system, high-throughput devices on USB (USB HID devices with Microsoft HID drivers) regularly BSOD the system when queried, and enormously slow and bad TCP/IP stack that doesn't perform well under bad conditions.
Also Windows 7 checking for HDCP and forcing it down your throat at random times (which when on DVI-D splitter will bring snow to one of the displays) even when the system is idle it will randomly decide to enable HDCP.
Agreed, I work in the scientific field and getting a 120Hz or higher display to work without HDCP currently requires a little box that doesn't support HDCP just to kill the signal. Without the little box (Gefen DVI-Detective), the HDCP signal won't work correctly through any type of DVI-D splitter (one side will get the signal while the other one gets snow).
I love when I can find a display that doesn't support HDCP as it cuts the cost of circumventing HDCP. HDCP is killing legitimate use cases and requires work arounds that aren't obvious.
There are many open source project management projects out there with various solutions. Check them out.
I don't see why in a distance of 10 miles, you need 18 stations. That is roughly equivalent to every 1 km. In Europe, most light rail even in the city has roughly 5 km of track between each station and most smaller stations are raised sidewalks with a pole and some lighting. Off course, you can raise the price of anything but it seems that someone is lining their pockets there.
Most Comedy Central stuff is available online though. So it's a non-issue.
Well, we did cut the cord ($150 for basic cable, internet and phone service). My SO was also complaining about these shows and if we had cable we would have it on DVR or on Instant Replay. Then we went to her parents house and apparently none of the good shows she wanted to watch are on Instant Replay and the DVR won't allow you to watch them because the TV is not HDCP approved.
So you PAY for HBO and you still have to be there to watch the shows? I got them over Torrent though.
That seems tremendously overpriced. Over 10 miles you would probably have only 2 train stations. You can see 1 mile far, it's really not THAT far. For it to have 2 rails and some wood, acquire land etc. should not cost $100M. Are they using gold bricks as rails?
The problem is that the interfaces are not really well defined or anyone would be able to write a GPU, eg. open source developers.
Look at the problems (still) in the nouveau drivers and radeon/ati modules. From what I've heard, the problem lies in the older GMA card drivers from Intel which Intel doesn't (want to) release 64-bit drivers for. I have seen the same issues in Windows Vista 64-bit and I've heard complaints about the 7 releases too (very glitchy).
This is the DHS - ICE department. You have now been declared an enemy combatant. If you could, save yourself some trouble and go straight to Cuba.
Thank you for your cooperation, please spread wide.
If I'm not mistaken, there was a SuperBus in there as well that did 300km/h
I don't see how you or any of your co-workers are remotely IT related. UEFI vs. BIOS? Really? Fiddling with images for that long? Using a Windows install straight out of the factory? Thinking that because there is a factory-installed Windows license that it is even valid for your institution (it's not, you have to shell out for an Enterprise-deal)?
And you're the knowledgeable one? I am imagining a room full of IT guys that maybe have 200 machines to handle (which, one person should be able to do by himself) and that simply buy solution upon solution because they haven't a clue how stuff works.
But the person that digs would have to pay the damages, not the end-user. And that problem exists with fiber too and although a frequent occurrence, it doesn't necessarily take the whole US Internet out or even the Internet for a city.
The problem is multi-fold
- The government put the cables in a long time ago, sometimes during periods where certain products were scarce (usually because of war) and thus sub-par elements were used (aluminum or steel)
- Privatized utilities got the wiring for free on the promise that they would expand and renew and have been collecting money but not investing it
- No government oversight for the privatized utilities to keep on their promise so things have not been inspected for years
- Patchwork as-needed repairs causing unnecessary losses and dependencies
- Increases in demand, decreases in classic resistive demands
- Most of the heaviest things (motors, airco) in homes still run on 110V even though 220V has been available in most homes but most homes haven't been wired correctly for 220V
- Now that the system is on the brink of collapse, the utilities go with outstretched hand back to the government in order to have the taxpayer pay for it regardless
The problem is not necessary in the time representation, the problem is that when NTP tries to insert the extra second into the kernel, the kernel gets stuck in a spinlock (basically waiting until a lock becomes available which never does).
The thing is that NTP announces this adjustment to the kernel somewhere the day before so it doesn't necessarily happen at 23:59:59 GMT (although it could happen at that time too)
No, XP is used in so much environments for just about everything still.
- Scientific tools are still mostly XP-only (or DOS still), Vista/7 is possible sometimes with XP compatibility but it's not guaranteed
- Most corporate programs still run only on XP including IE6
- XP is fine on 10 year old computers without all the bells and whistles, 7 is a lot heavier on the resources and requires a more recent computer to run well even with all the bells and whistles turned off.
I am pretty sure I read a report stating that is how they DID do it. I'm not sure if they were impersonating the GPS signal or the command signal but either one was used to steer the thing to them.