Most everyone is moving to LTE, not GSM. In any case, you don't hear much about GSM Stingrays because the entire GSM security model was holed YEARS ago so there was far less need to go to extremes to do GSM intercepts. They cheesey GSM encryption method has a variety of weaknesses and anyone inclined to do GSM intercepts can do so quite easily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The gear needed is basically a laptop and some innocent-looking antennas. It fits in a briefcase.
Since the iPhone was GSM-only for a long time, I would be shocked if Apple's competitors had not setup GSM intercept stations around the Apple campus and done wholesale capture for perhaps years at a time. Hell it can be done from three blocks away and nobody would even suspect a thing.
The software company I used to work for didn't care much about drug use or background checks, until we began taking on a roster of bank clients and doing work on their data. Those clients demanded drug tests, background checks, privacy policy acknowledgements, etc. So the whole facility of about 100 people had to be checked.
The result was immediate firing for a handful of workers in the back warehouse part of the operation, and several key employees were fired for lying about their backgrounds. We had one guy who was a convicted felon sex offender supervising a group of women at night. HE got to stay because he had kept management informed. But another worker lied about something and was let go. They didn't play favorites.
Passing a drug test is not a problem for me. I've never used them and never will. People say I am no fun. They are probably right.
Store brands work very well for Aldi and Costco and Kroger, where each of those stores makes a huge amount of their profit off their own brands, which allows them to keep the prices lower on the name brands.
Suppliers like Ralston, Richelieu Foods, Dean, Glister-Mary Lee, Cott, Sun Brands, Red Gold, and many others have decades of experience making store brands. For example, Glister-Mary Lee makes Betty Crocker cake mixes under contract for General Mills, and also makes store brands. They make name-brand microwave popcorn and also many store brands. So they know what they are doing, and they're hardly the only ones.
Sun Brands makes a huge range of name brand detergents like All, Wisk, Sun, and store brands for Walgreens, Costco, Aldi, Safeway and others. They've been nipping at Procter & Gamble for years and won awards while never grabbing a spotlight. They know how to make great store brands like Kirkland for Costco, and utter dreck store brands like Tendil for Aldi. So Amazon's success depends on what kind of product they choose to source. People tend to be very loyal to their laundry detergents.
From the sound of the chaos going on at Top Gear, that show is its own worst enemy and will probably manage to implode and take the whole of the BBC with it.
More cores are not going to help. The vast majority of programs only use one or two cores. I see this now on my 8-core and 6-core machines where nearly nothing I do in normal use ever really uses more than two cores.
The only things that do use all the cores are video rendering (Sony Vegas Pro) or audio ripping (dBPoweramp).
My i7 does try to load balance on its own even for programs not natively using multiple cores, but it doesn't help a lot. A current issue game I play all the time only ever hits two cores and about 30% processor load. So I could play this game fine on even a quad-core box -and in fact I did until recently replacing that with the 6-core. It made no difference in that game or honestly anything else except the rendering noted above.
Most people never use their PCs for rendering. They want to do Facebook and email and Instagram and Pinterest. Two cores is all you need for that.
Not sure Intel deserves much blame for delayed chips. Most buyers don't pay attention to which chip is coming soon. Enthusiasts do, and they look forward to the incremental gains. But grandma Smith buying a laptop for Facebook has no idea and does not care. They just want a good deal off the shelf at Sams Club.
Super upgraded power savings/longer battery life? The laptop will be plugged in 24/7. Faster chip? Won't make Facebook faster Smaller die size? Who cares except enthusiasts? UHD screens? What good is that right now for most people?
Most any laptop or PC sold since 2011 is probably still just fine for even the things people want to do with them.
After all, using Facebook or email or Youtube or porn sites hasn't gotten any more demanding than it was five years ago, and maybe even ten years ago in some cases. Windows 10 generally demands less of a computer than Windows 8 or even 7 did so it actually runs better in many cases that whatever shipped with the computer. So if all you do is Facebook, you have no need for a new PC. Slapping an SSD in the thing would probably be more useful anyway.
For tablets, newer is better in some cases but my aging iPad is just fine. Had a Nexus 7 for a long time and even it still did OK until recently.
Gaming is the only thing demanding new PCs and even THAT has stalled. Maybe the high demands of VR will keep gaming alive, but the VR games still look like gimmicks. Meanwhile I'm still playing games based on DX9 and Unreal Engine 3. My 2015 overclocked i7 gaming computer with 16GBs ram and 4GBs Nvida mobile GPU, SSD, touch screen, etc etc is way more power than the game can even use. Nothing challenges this PC except rendering video. Whatever, I do that like twice a year.
2FA is great unless the company happily agrees to turn it off when a hacker kindly asks them to via web chat or twitter DM: http://www.csoonline.com/artic...
If someone can CALL or CHAT or DM and ask them to turn off 2FA, then the process is broken, the security is an illusion and using 2FA is worthless.
To be fair, this photog probably spent years honing his craft making $20 portrait photos and living off ramen noodles until he became skilled enough and experienced enough to command $4000 for a shoot. He didn't decide on Tuesday to become a pro photographer and boop suddenly he is one by Friday. I am sure it took a lot of work and a long time.
Likewise, in whatever work you do, your first day or weeks or years we probably spent similarly, learning the basics before you got to where you are now. You mention handling lives. Well, a highly skilled surgeon or a "doc in a box" can both can suture up a cut. Technically. But the level of skill and experience and costs are probably orders of magnitude apart. An average doc in a box is not going to be able to do open heart surgery even if they could charge the same fee for it as the surgeon.
If you want the pro, you pay the pro. There is an awful lot of difference when this man presses his shutter button compared to what happens when you or I do the same thing. A hotel is going to want a pro because they want the benefits of that difference.
THIS. They had every chance to negotiate an agreement to use the images for more than the three years and/or for other uses, and chose not to do so. The license expired and they chose to use the images outside the terms of the license anyway, so clearly copyright infringement has happened.
Therefore penalties and other costs should apply, not the least of which is a license for the use they actually did have. And perhaps punitive costs, court costs, damages, etc. It would have been smart for the hotel to buy worldwide perpetual licenses on the images or outright own them. Baffling that they did not do that. They went cheap. Now they will pay more.
Wrong.
The lawsuit isn't for continued access to work; the entity that initially hired him and agreed to the terms had an opportunity to negotiate continued/expanded access either before the contract was executed or in the intervening three years. The lawsuit is because the entity elected to ignore the previously negotiated contract. Intentional or accidental is for a court to decide.
If the award for breach of contract was simply the fee that would have been due, then there would be no incentive to bother honoring contracts -- you could simply pretend it didn't exist, not pay until someone noticed, and then get off with the same cost as you would have paid had both parties been diligent. No, lawsuits relating to breaches of contract are for additional damages (and courts subsequently award said damages) to punish the offending party as a deterrent to those who would shirk the responsibilities of a contract in the first place.
Know anyone who has Project Fi service? If so, maybe you could borrow their Fi sim to see if will work in the S7.
I like my Fi service but I hate the Nexus 6 phone they "make" you use. In theory, an activated Fi sim can be used in any unlocked GSM LTE handset. This is something I really want to do.
My old workplace had an IT worker apply for a job who prided himself on finding the CHEAPEST possible solution to any problem. For example, he would grab any discarded printers or computers he could find on the side of the road or in dumpsters. The used appliance shelves at thrift stores were his source for cable modems and such. He bragged about how his last employer hadn't needed to spend much on IT because he cobbled together whatever was needed for cheap.
Now, he was applying for a job with a company who routinely spent more on office food catering for the fun of it than his prior company's entire budget, so we were not overly concerned with acquiring network hardware from somebody's trash can. He didn't get the job.
But I can see where someone with that kind of skill at finding a cheap way to do something might be considered a huge asset. And banks, being penny-pinchers, I can imagine he would have fit in well in such an operation and felt great about using used hardware.
Typical of many weapons programs, the contractors underbid and then "happened to have" massive cost overruns and exceeded the budget by billions, and now, the defective planes they made for all that extra dollars will now need even more fixes and repairs and upgrades to make them actually work at all, which is even MORE dollars.
Somebody at Lockheed just got a raise and promotion out of this.
Most of this can be done now with the Xfinity streaming video website, and of course some channels have Roku apps or stream on Youtube which has an app.
But there is one big problem with this: All of it uses your meager 300GB of Comcast bandwidth. Every stupid moment of it uses bandwidth.
Watching cable TV the old fashioned way with a set-top box does not use bandwidth. I can leave all the TVs in my house on whatever channel I want all month long and it won't use even one kilobyte.
But if I put NBCSports (only for F1) or QVC on my laptop or Roku, bam, I am gobbling up bandwidth like crazy. This happens even if I go somewhere else and use an Xfinity hotspot to watch. The system counts that bandwidth against your account.
Use too much bandwidth and you get to pay more for overages. Xfinity is gonna make bank "letting" people watch TV on their Roku boxes. How nice of them.
Now I could pay for unlimited bandwidth and my total Comcast bill would be about $130 and I could watch all the TV I want. OR I can keep it as it is, and have a nice TV package with a couple hundred channels, and pay $119. HMMM. Sure I only get 300GB that way but that's enough for my current use.
its all bollox. if you've washed your hands properly there will be no germs to spread.
It's also pushing air against the user's clothing, the walls, maybe the floor. All of these places have dirt and bacteria present so when you blow a lot of high speed air against these surfaces, you will tend to pick up dirt and germs and such and loft them all around the room.
The latest update has broken even more apps. Already things like Skype or anything that used audio functions, had stopped working. Now various other things have stopped, only spitting out error messages that cover the screen.
I'm about ready to erase the phone and go back to Marshmallow.
The vast majority of songs composed and written and their performances are not owned by these people. Most of them sold away their rights somewhere in the process of signing up with a record label.
So the aggrieved party for most of these songs is the record label. They should pursue it if they wish.
By the same token, these artists won't make much or even any money at all off this. Whatever you might pay to Spotify or other services, and the fees radio stations and internet services pay... almost none of that money gets back to the artists. It goes to the owners of the material, which is often the record labels.
Here's an analogy. You work for Acme Hammer company and you make hammers all day. Acme pays you for this, a buck a hammer. They even paid in advance for 1000000 hammers so life is good. You make a lot of hammers and soon Acme has a warehouse full of hammers.
Somebody breaks into the warehouse and takes all the hammers. Empties it out. Do you get mad? No. because YOU got paid. The hammers don't belong to you. You sold them to Acme. Acme is screwed, or hammered, but you cannot go file a police report or insurance claim. It wasn't your property at the time it got taken.
A typical modern sedan auto factory making your average Camry or Sonata or Accord turns out about 30,000 cars a month. Sometimes more, sometimes less. And usually there are 1-2 months of downtime and maintenance. Figure roughly 300,000 cars a year.
Tesla is saying they've pre-sold roughly four months of production, before people see the announcement and decide to order one and add more numbers to the list. They sold something like 25,000 MORE pre-orders during the reveal event. This is pretty spectacular by any standard, and more so considering Tesla's annual production rate for the Model S was only 50,000 in 2015. The S is seasoned design which they no doubt assemble fairly efficiently.
This really mean they have sold the equivalent of two plus years of new cars, probably more like three because they won't be at peak output anywhere near the beginning of production. It may take a year to fully ramp up.
To summarise: Damn fine sales, Tesla. Congratulations!
Robot-made food is a good thing, for a whole host of reasons. Reduced hands on it means reduced germs, and every restaurant would love to have their food made exactly to the same standard every time, even if it looks nothing like the menu picture.
I'm sick of going in to order and getting an evil eye from somebody in the back and then I have to wonder what will be in the food I am buying. Will I get an extra horked up glob with my burger? Robots won't care who I am, what I wear, how I look. They'll just make the damn food.
We have national standards for school buses, and many tour buses and intercity buses and large vehicles like box trucks are all standardized to a large extent and the same anywhere you go.
Many cities source transit buses from only a few manufacturers but every city has to have their custom version of train. Why? Regular railroads manage just fine with extremely compatible rolling stock across every railroad and even across the Canada and Mexico borders.
And yet we have all these transit systems sourcing heavy rail cars from all the heck over. I cannot believe there is so much need to have a custom rail car for every system. Sure, have a short version for some places and a longer car for others, and perhaps some differences in the operating cab. But the rest of the cars should be standardized and things like motors, power pick-ups, couplers, seating, ventilation, and so forth, should be as common as possible. And then, source the same design from multiple makers. Trust me, the railcar manufacturers certainly can copy designs and reproduce them without any issue.
There should also be common signaling, power delivery, and control systems. None of this stuff NEEDS to be custom in every city.
So now you have common system parts all across the US. You gain immense engineering knowledge as expertise on one system would transfer to others. Big breakdowns would be reduced or eliminated, and under worst-case scenarios, systems could borrow rail cars from each other to meet demand urgencies or other needs. This happens quite often on freight railroads. It's not even notable.
This GMO thing is nothing some stickers couldn't handle. Some foods, like Coca-Cola made in Mexico and ramen noodles imported from Japan, already carry extra sticker labels on the packages to allow these imported items to conform to US labeling requirements.
This happens routinely with imported food from all over. There is no reason a similar kind of GMO label could not be developed for Vermont and make it the duty of the retailer or distributor to ensure the labels are applied. Stores too could do this as they stock the shelves. In this way, the factories don't need to change at all, and there is no need to change anything for any other states nor worry how to conform to different laws in different states. Just make stickers very cheaply in bulk and apply where an when needed.
Problem solved.
And oh yes, sure DO pass on the cost of the stickers and labor to apply them to the consumers. Why not? It's a cost center.
One of my laptops is staying at Windows 7 because it's old, it runs 7 fine, it physically CANNOT run Windows 10 due to some BIOS issues, and anyway, all the things I use it for (mainly programing two-way radios) works just fine on a slow, old Windows 7 laptop.
It does not need to run Windows 10 for ANY reason. Not even security. This old laptop is not used for web surfing or banking or games or Facebook or porn or anything like that. It does not need to have updates for the next 10 years. It is extremely unlikely to acquire a security issue or virus or malware but it does have software loaded to prevent that.
So right now that laptop is fine. It will not go to 10 and has no need for 10. If they try to force 10 on it, it will NOT work and it will screw up the goddamn laptop. I know this because I already tried it to see what it would do and end result was having to restore the drive from a backup made before the attempt. 10 is fundamentally incompatible with this machine even if their update checker thing says otherwise. It won't work and they'd better not fuck up my machine.
The men and women who serve on submarines all know their real enemy isn't the other side's sailors but rather the sea itself.
It stalks their every move, looks for a weakness, and strikes without mercy.
I am confident US, Russian, Chinese, Indian, British or French navies would send assistance if asked. This is not about conflict between these countries. Under the sea, they face the same enemy.
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Most everyone is moving to LTE, not GSM. In any case, you don't hear much about GSM Stingrays because the entire GSM security model was holed YEARS ago so there was far less need to go to extremes to do GSM intercepts. They cheesey GSM encryption method has a variety of weaknesses and anyone inclined to do GSM intercepts can do so quite easily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The gear needed is basically a laptop and some innocent-looking antennas. It fits in a briefcase.
Since the iPhone was GSM-only for a long time, I would be shocked if Apple's competitors had not setup GSM intercept stations around the Apple campus and done wholesale capture for perhaps years at a time. Hell it can be done from three blocks away and nobody would even suspect a thing.
The software company I used to work for didn't care much about drug use or background checks, until we began taking on a roster of bank clients and doing work on their data. Those clients demanded drug tests, background checks, privacy policy acknowledgements, etc. So the whole facility of about 100 people had to be checked.
The result was immediate firing for a handful of workers in the back warehouse part of the operation, and several key employees were fired for lying about their backgrounds. We had one guy who was a convicted felon sex offender supervising a group of women at night. HE got to stay because he had kept management informed. But another worker lied about something and was let go. They didn't play favorites.
Passing a drug test is not a problem for me. I've never used them and never will. People say I am no fun. They are probably right.
Store brands work very well for Aldi and Costco and Kroger, where each of those stores makes a huge amount of their profit off their own brands, which allows them to keep the prices lower on the name brands.
Suppliers like Ralston, Richelieu Foods, Dean, Glister-Mary Lee, Cott, Sun Brands, Red Gold, and many others have decades of experience making store brands. For example, Glister-Mary Lee makes Betty Crocker cake mixes under contract for General Mills, and also makes store brands. They make name-brand microwave popcorn and also many store brands. So they know what they are doing, and they're hardly the only ones.
Sun Brands makes a huge range of name brand detergents like All, Wisk, Sun, and store brands for Walgreens, Costco, Aldi, Safeway and others. They've been nipping at Procter & Gamble for years and won awards while never grabbing a spotlight. They know how to make great store brands like Kirkland for Costco, and utter dreck store brands like Tendil for Aldi. So Amazon's success depends on what kind of product they choose to source. People tend to be very loyal to their laundry detergents.
From the sound of the chaos going on at Top Gear, that show is its own worst enemy and will probably manage to implode and take the whole of the BBC with it.
Amazon's show has no need to steal thunder.
More cores are not going to help. The vast majority of programs only use one or two cores. I see this now on my 8-core and 6-core machines where nearly nothing I do in normal use ever really uses more than two cores.
The only things that do use all the cores are video rendering (Sony Vegas Pro) or audio ripping (dBPoweramp).
My i7 does try to load balance on its own even for programs not natively using multiple cores, but it doesn't help a lot. A current issue game I play all the time only ever hits two cores and about 30% processor load. So I could play this game fine on even a quad-core box -and in fact I did until recently replacing that with the 6-core. It made no difference in that game or honestly anything else except the rendering noted above.
Most people never use their PCs for rendering. They want to do Facebook and email and Instagram and Pinterest. Two cores is all you need for that.
Not sure Intel deserves much blame for delayed chips. Most buyers don't pay attention to which chip is coming soon. Enthusiasts do, and they look forward to the incremental gains. But grandma Smith buying a laptop for Facebook has no idea and does not care. They just want a good deal off the shelf at Sams Club.
Super upgraded power savings/longer battery life? The laptop will be plugged in 24/7.
Faster chip? Won't make Facebook faster
Smaller die size? Who cares except enthusiasts?
UHD screens? What good is that right now for most people?
Most any laptop or PC sold since 2011 is probably still just fine for even the things people want to do with them.
After all, using Facebook or email or Youtube or porn sites hasn't gotten any more demanding than it was five years ago, and maybe even ten years ago in some cases. Windows 10 generally demands less of a computer than Windows 8 or even 7 did so it actually runs better in many cases that whatever shipped with the computer. So if all you do is Facebook, you have no need for a new PC. Slapping an SSD in the thing would probably be more useful anyway.
For tablets, newer is better in some cases but my aging iPad is just fine. Had a Nexus 7 for a long time and even it still did OK until recently.
Gaming is the only thing demanding new PCs and even THAT has stalled. Maybe the high demands of VR will keep gaming alive, but the VR games still look like gimmicks. Meanwhile I'm still playing games based on DX9 and Unreal Engine 3. My 2015 overclocked i7 gaming computer with 16GBs ram and 4GBs Nvida mobile GPU, SSD, touch screen, etc etc is way more power than the game can even use. Nothing challenges this PC except rendering video. Whatever, I do that like twice a year.
2FA is great unless the company happily agrees to turn it off when a hacker kindly asks them to via web chat or twitter DM: http://www.csoonline.com/artic...
If someone can CALL or CHAT or DM and ask them to turn off 2FA, then the process is broken, the security is an illusion and using 2FA is worthless.
To be fair, this photog probably spent years honing his craft making $20 portrait photos and living off ramen noodles until he became skilled enough and experienced enough to command $4000 for a shoot. He didn't decide on Tuesday to become a pro photographer and boop suddenly he is one by Friday. I am sure it took a lot of work and a long time.
Likewise, in whatever work you do, your first day or weeks or years we probably spent similarly, learning the basics before you got to where you are now. You mention handling lives. Well, a highly skilled surgeon or a "doc in a box" can both can suture up a cut. Technically. But the level of skill and experience and costs are probably orders of magnitude apart. An average doc in a box is not going to be able to do open heart surgery even if they could charge the same fee for it as the surgeon.
If you want the pro, you pay the pro. There is an awful lot of difference when this man presses his shutter button compared to what happens when you or I do the same thing. A hotel is going to want a pro because they want the benefits of that difference.
THIS. They had every chance to negotiate an agreement to use the images for more than the three years and/or for other uses, and chose not to do so. The license expired and they chose to use the images outside the terms of the license anyway, so clearly copyright infringement has happened.
Therefore penalties and other costs should apply, not the least of which is a license for the use they actually did have. And perhaps punitive costs, court costs, damages, etc. It would have been smart for the hotel to buy worldwide perpetual licenses on the images or outright own them. Baffling that they did not do that. They went cheap. Now they will pay more.
Wrong.
The lawsuit isn't for continued access to work; the entity that initially hired him and agreed to the terms had an opportunity to negotiate continued/expanded access either before the contract was executed or in the intervening three years. The lawsuit is because the entity elected to ignore the previously negotiated contract. Intentional or accidental is for a court to decide.
If the award for breach of contract was simply the fee that would have been due, then there would be no incentive to bother honoring contracts -- you could simply pretend it didn't exist, not pay until someone noticed, and then get off with the same cost as you would have paid had both parties been diligent. No, lawsuits relating to breaches of contract are for additional damages (and courts subsequently award said damages) to punish the offending party as a deterrent to those who would shirk the responsibilities of a contract in the first place.
Know anyone who has Project Fi service? If so, maybe you could borrow their Fi sim to see if will work in the S7.
I like my Fi service but I hate the Nexus 6 phone they "make" you use. In theory, an activated Fi sim can be used in any unlocked GSM LTE handset. This is something I really want to do.
OK Professor Falcon -I mean Hawking, please be the first to test your theory.
Relatively few people, myself included, really want to be the first to jump in black hole to see if you are right.
My old workplace had an IT worker apply for a job who prided himself on finding the CHEAPEST possible solution to any problem. For example, he would grab any discarded printers or computers he could find on the side of the road or in dumpsters. The used appliance shelves at thrift stores were his source for cable modems and such. He bragged about how his last employer hadn't needed to spend much on IT because he cobbled together whatever was needed for cheap.
Now, he was applying for a job with a company who routinely spent more on office food catering for the fun of it than his prior company's entire budget, so we were not overly concerned with acquiring network hardware from somebody's trash can. He didn't get the job.
But I can see where someone with that kind of skill at finding a cheap way to do something might be considered a huge asset. And banks, being penny-pinchers, I can imagine he would have fit in well in such an operation and felt great about using used hardware.
Typical of many weapons programs, the contractors underbid and then "happened to have" massive cost overruns and exceeded the budget by billions, and now, the defective planes they made for all that extra dollars will now need even more fixes and repairs and upgrades to make them actually work at all, which is even MORE dollars.
Somebody at Lockheed just got a raise and promotion out of this.
Most of this can be done now with the Xfinity streaming video website, and of course some channels have Roku apps or stream on Youtube which has an app.
But there is one big problem with this: All of it uses your meager 300GB of Comcast bandwidth. Every stupid moment of it uses bandwidth.
Watching cable TV the old fashioned way with a set-top box does not use bandwidth. I can leave all the TVs in my house on whatever channel I want all month long and it won't use even one kilobyte.
But if I put NBCSports (only for F1) or QVC on my laptop or Roku, bam, I am gobbling up bandwidth like crazy. This happens even if I go somewhere else and use an Xfinity hotspot to watch. The system counts that bandwidth against your account.
Use too much bandwidth and you get to pay more for overages. Xfinity is gonna make bank "letting" people watch TV on their Roku boxes. How nice of them.
Now I could pay for unlimited bandwidth and my total Comcast bill would be about $130 and I could watch all the TV I want. OR I can keep it as it is, and have a nice TV package with a couple hundred channels, and pay $119. HMMM. Sure I only get 300GB that way but that's enough for my current use.
its all bollox. if you've washed your hands properly there will be no germs to spread.
It's also pushing air against the user's clothing, the walls, maybe the floor. All of these places have dirt and bacteria present so when you blow a lot of high speed air against these surfaces, you will tend to pick up dirt and germs and such and loft them all around the room.
Tried to make a case with a photo I made myself of a rendering I painted. I made the image. And took a capture of that image and tried to make a case.
Nope. "The photo you selected cannot be used. It may be copyrighted or indecent"
No you idiots. It's my art and quite decent. Fuck you. I can buy a vinyl case decal for less money anyway and get whatever I want printed on it.
I really hate my Nexus anyway. I want a new phone. Maybe I will accidentally break this one and be forced to get the hell out of it.
The latest update has broken even more apps. Already things like Skype or anything that used audio functions, had stopped working. Now various other things have stopped, only spitting out error messages that cover the screen.
I'm about ready to erase the phone and go back to Marshmallow.
The vast majority of songs composed and written and their performances are not owned by these people. Most of them sold away their rights somewhere in the process of signing up with a record label.
So the aggrieved party for most of these songs is the record label. They should pursue it if they wish.
By the same token, these artists won't make much or even any money at all off this. Whatever you might pay to Spotify or other services, and the fees radio stations and internet services pay ... almost none of that money gets back to the artists. It goes to the owners of the material, which is often the record labels.
Here's an analogy. You work for Acme Hammer company and you make hammers all day. Acme pays you for this, a buck a hammer. They even paid in advance for 1000000 hammers so life is good. You make a lot of hammers and soon Acme has a warehouse full of hammers.
Somebody breaks into the warehouse and takes all the hammers. Empties it out. Do you get mad? No. because YOU got paid. The hammers don't belong to you. You sold them to Acme. Acme is screwed, or hammered, but you cannot go file a police report or insurance claim. It wasn't your property at the time it got taken.
A typical modern sedan auto factory making your average Camry or Sonata or Accord turns out about 30,000 cars a month. Sometimes more, sometimes less. And usually there are 1-2 months of downtime and maintenance. Figure roughly 300,000 cars a year.
Tesla is saying they've pre-sold roughly four months of production, before people see the announcement and decide to order one and add more numbers to the list. They sold something like 25,000 MORE pre-orders during the reveal event. This is pretty spectacular by any standard, and more so considering Tesla's annual production rate for the Model S was only 50,000 in 2015. The S is seasoned design which they no doubt assemble fairly efficiently.
This really mean they have sold the equivalent of two plus years of new cars, probably more like three because they won't be at peak output anywhere near the beginning of production. It may take a year to fully ramp up.
To summarise: Damn fine sales, Tesla. Congratulations!
Robot-made food is a good thing, for a whole host of reasons. Reduced hands on it means reduced germs, and every restaurant would love to have their food made exactly to the same standard every time, even if it looks nothing like the menu picture.
I'm sick of going in to order and getting an evil eye from somebody in the back and then I have to wonder what will be in the food I am buying. Will I get an extra horked up glob with my burger? Robots won't care who I am, what I wear, how I look. They'll just make the damn food.
We have national standards for school buses, and many tour buses and intercity buses and large vehicles like box trucks are all standardized to a large extent and the same anywhere you go.
Many cities source transit buses from only a few manufacturers but every city has to have their custom version of train. Why? Regular railroads manage just fine with extremely compatible rolling stock across every railroad and even across the Canada and Mexico borders.
And yet we have all these transit systems sourcing heavy rail cars from all the heck over. I cannot believe there is so much need to have a custom rail car for every system. Sure, have a short version for some places and a longer car for others, and perhaps some differences in the operating cab. But the rest of the cars should be standardized and things like motors, power pick-ups, couplers, seating, ventilation, and so forth, should be as common as possible. And then, source the same design from multiple makers. Trust me, the railcar manufacturers certainly can copy designs and reproduce them without any issue.
There should also be common signaling, power delivery, and control systems. None of this stuff NEEDS to be custom in every city.
So now you have common system parts all across the US. You gain immense engineering knowledge as expertise on one system would transfer to others. Big breakdowns would be reduced or eliminated, and under worst-case scenarios, systems could borrow rail cars from each other to meet demand urgencies or other needs. This happens quite often on freight railroads. It's not even notable.
This GMO thing is nothing some stickers couldn't handle. Some foods, like Coca-Cola made in Mexico and ramen noodles imported from Japan, already carry extra sticker labels on the packages to allow these imported items to conform to US labeling requirements.
This happens routinely with imported food from all over. There is no reason a similar kind of GMO label could not be developed for Vermont and make it the duty of the retailer or distributor to ensure the labels are applied. Stores too could do this as they stock the shelves. In this way, the factories don't need to change at all, and there is no need to change anything for any other states nor worry how to conform to different laws in different states. Just make stickers very cheaply in bulk and apply where an when needed.
Problem solved.
And oh yes, sure DO pass on the cost of the stickers and labor to apply them to the consumers. Why not? It's a cost center.
One of my laptops is staying at Windows 7 because it's old, it runs 7 fine, it physically CANNOT run Windows 10 due to some BIOS issues, and anyway, all the things I use it for (mainly programing two-way radios) works just fine on a slow, old Windows 7 laptop.
It does not need to run Windows 10 for ANY reason. Not even security. This old laptop is not used for web surfing or banking or games or Facebook or porn or anything like that. It does not need to have updates for the next 10 years. It is extremely unlikely to acquire a security issue or virus or malware but it does have software loaded to prevent that.
So right now that laptop is fine. It will not go to 10 and has no need for 10. If they try to force 10 on it, it will NOT work and it will screw up the goddamn laptop. I know this because I already tried it to see what it would do and end result was having to restore the drive from a backup made before the attempt. 10 is fundamentally incompatible with this machine even if their update checker thing says otherwise. It won't work and they'd better not fuck up my machine.
The men and women who serve on submarines all know their real enemy isn't the other side's sailors but rather the sea itself.
It stalks their every move, looks for a weakness, and strikes without mercy.
I am confident US, Russian, Chinese, Indian, British or French navies would send assistance if asked. This is not about conflict between these countries. Under the sea, they face the same enemy.