I know. People today are so "we gave it a week and it didn't thrill us so let's throw it away".
I'm not "get off my lawn" old, but why does everything need to be so absolute?
It's not the "instant hit" some people might have expected, okay. But given some time to mature, in both hardware and software, it absolutely could be a huge piece of the market.
If skeptics convince every player to leave then their forecast looks true. It's akin to shorting stock and publicly saying the stock is trash.
Let the hardware become smaller, faster, fancier. Let the software become cooler. Let the prices come down. Then you've got something that can take off.
I agree that they should always allow you to be stationary and seated, otherwise they're cutting people out.
...medical device maker Medtronic said it will lock some of its equipment out of its software update service, meaning the hardware can't download and install new code from its servers. That may seem counterintuitive... Malicious updates could be pushed to Medtronic devices by hackers intercepting and tampering with the equipment's internet connections -- the machines would not verify they were actually downloading legit Medtronic firmware -- and so the biz has cut them off.
If this is right, locking them out of the service on the server side doesn't do a damn thing. You need to tell the devices to stop "looking for updates". All this does is let's me know that if I got an update after the shutdown then it's fake.
Cutting off the server side still allows a device to look for updates and if a man-in-the-middle answers it will allow the update, because the whole problem is that it's not verifying the update's source.
Self-driving cars used in the program would potentially need to have technology disabling the vehicle if a sensor fails or barring vehicles from traveling above safe speeds
Why is this necessary? Half the point of self driving cars is that they can go slower because I don't need to focus. Go 40 mph (64 kph) for all I care. I can be doing something else. I don't need to "hurry" at 70, just get me there.
Though I suppose I do see why it legally "needs to be said". During the introductory phase it would be best to "flow with traffic", but once the majority are self driving they could lower the speed limits so any accidents that do happen are less dangerous.
I can understand that "he never commercialized it" so even if governments wanted to buy some there was none to buy.
And no one was allowed to hold onto a sample.
But when he died in 2011 there were no samples found???
No governments stepped in to "snoop" around? No heirs found a chunk sitting around? No safe deposit box?
I'd imagine that a sample or formula exists somewhere.
If you have a good thing and it's proven to work why would you not commercialize it? Or partner with some business schmuck who can handle that side of things and still sleep at night. (no offense intended to business schmucks)
Just make the default password some ugly long gibberish and the users are likely to change it to their dog's name just because they don't want to type that monstrosity again.
Because "most users" don't know the difference is not, by itself, a good reason to hide information. They will never learn if you hide the information.
Educated consumers are better for the economy, so don't go out of your way to make things dumber.
I can't trust the government to get off their ass and do it, but I would love to see it on ballots so the people can tell the government that we want this to happen.
Personally I'd like to see us finally move to metric, but I think I'll die before I see that happen.
I really hope it's not a case of "we're on the wrong type of account, but I can't get this $12 / year approved to fix it".
If you're on the wrong type of account then fix it. It's not ok to be on the wrong type just because it's a sliver cheaper and "functions well enough" most of the time.
That said, it is very wrong (yet not uncommon) for a company to charge public-serving agencies more just because their services are more sensitive. That $12 doesn't seem like a lot until you add up every fire dept in the country, then maybe ambulance, police, school, etc. That $2 is big bucks for Verizon.
I've wondered for a long time why nobody has developed a keyboard with clear chicklet-style keys with an led screen underneath.
That way you can display your normal keys, when you hit shift you could technically flip between upper and lower case letters. When you change keyboard layout (a-la dvorak) the keys can show appropriately.
When playing a game (like WoW) you can show spell icons. When playing an FPS game WASD could show the directions. The flashlight, grenade, chat keys could all show icons.
It doesn't even need to technically have "keys", but i think some sort of cover that simulates the feel of keys would make it easier to use.
It would be much simpler to come up with standard online sales tax.
Right now interstates online sales aren't taxed. So instead of saying you need to comply with local taxes they should come up with some average. Make it a set state % and municipal % for online sales, no matter where the buyer is. I say ignore the types of services and tax all online sales - no need to track that either.
Or, the other simplification would be to require it only if you move more than $X worth of sales. So the little guy doesn't get bent over, but the big guys pitch in.
This is what I came to add. Toxoplasmosis as well, is a worm that like human eyeballs. What the show called "Monsters Inside Me" if you want to learn what kind of baddies get into the human body.
For all of the anti-bacterial soap people you should be aware of all of the beneficial stuff that lives on or inside us before you nuke first and ask questions later. One of the theories for Autism is that they lack the good gut bacteria "normal" folk have. Whether they never had it or it was evicted by bad gut bacteria is unknown. Perhaps some other change in body chemistry makes their gut less homey to good gut bacteria.
Set the doors so they only open from the inside, with the exception of the few used as main entrances.
Maybe instead of blowing 4 mill on "new fangled tech" you could used a tried and true tech. HID cards work fine, even finger print scanners would work here (and you still get to collect people's data unnecessarily).
I don't think many of the school shootings in the last 10 years would have been caught by blacklists anyhow.
Having student IDs with trackers and sensors around the school that could "sense" a person without a tracker would locate anyone on campus who is a potential threat. Then you could quickly identify any potential unknown. Having cameras that could snap a shot of the guy and attempt facial recognition at that point would be fine. The cameras could then be few and far between.
That still wouldn't catch a student shooter.
Personally throwing 4 million from the education budget into cameras seems like something not very educational, but that's just me.
I would like the browser to detect that the link I'm hovering over is a shorted URL (even if it's a "known" list), then instead of showing goo.gl/whatever it would hit the URL to find out where it forwards to and show me that.
Because I won't click on a shortened URL unless I'm damn sure it's from a trustworthy source.
There is a difference between "that monitor no longer works with this laptop" and "that monitor no longer works, period".
The blurb says something about turning external monitors into paperweights. To me that means "actively broke it and it no longer works, period". That is not the case if it only broke software on the laptop and the monitor still works fine.
That's the equivalent of "the internet is down" because you can't get a website to load.
In both cases I know you mean one of two things, but I don't know which.
If you state it as "effectively turning the monitor into a paperweight" I can assume that it's the latter example and that the monitor just doesn't work with that laptop.
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I know. People today are so "we gave it a week and it didn't thrill us so let's throw it away".
I'm not "get off my lawn" old, but why does everything need to be so absolute?
It's not the "instant hit" some people might have expected, okay. But given some time to mature, in both hardware and software, it absolutely could be a huge piece of the market.
If skeptics convince every player to leave then their forecast looks true. It's akin to shorting stock and publicly saying the stock is trash.
Let the hardware become smaller, faster, fancier. Let the software become cooler. Let the prices come down. Then you've got something that can take off.
I agree that they should always allow you to be stationary and seated, otherwise they're cutting people out.
After reading some of the other comments it appears they made one "final" update that tells the devices to stop looking for updates. So that works.
...medical device maker Medtronic said it will lock some of its equipment out of its software update service, meaning the hardware can't download and install new code from its servers. That may seem counterintuitive... Malicious updates could be pushed to Medtronic devices by hackers intercepting and tampering with the equipment's internet connections -- the machines would not verify they were actually downloading legit Medtronic firmware -- and so the biz has cut them off.
If this is right, locking them out of the service on the server side doesn't do a damn thing. You need to tell the devices to stop "looking for updates". All this does is let's me know that if I got an update after the shutdown then it's fake.
Cutting off the server side still allows a device to look for updates and if a man-in-the-middle answers it will allow the update, because the whole problem is that it's not verifying the update's source.
Self-driving cars used in the program would potentially need to have technology disabling the vehicle if a sensor fails or barring vehicles from traveling above safe speeds
Why is this necessary? Half the point of self driving cars is that they can go slower because I don't need to focus. Go 40 mph (64 kph) for all I care. I can be doing something else. I don't need to "hurry" at 70, just get me there.
Though I suppose I do see why it legally "needs to be said". During the introductory phase it would be best to "flow with traffic", but once the majority are self driving they could lower the speed limits so any accidents that do happen are less dangerous.
I want to know why alerts don't go into a history like text messages. Personally I think they should just go into the normal SMS history.
When I clear an alert to make the phone be quiet I lose the ability to see the alert. That's some of the dumbest planning I've seen.
I can understand that "he never commercialized it" so even if governments wanted to buy some there was none to buy.
And no one was allowed to hold onto a sample.
But when he died in 2011 there were no samples found???
No governments stepped in to "snoop" around? No heirs found a chunk sitting around? No safe deposit box?
I'd imagine that a sample or formula exists somewhere.
If you have a good thing and it's proven to work why would you not commercialize it? Or partner with some business schmuck who can handle that side of things and still sleep at night. (no offense intended to business schmucks)
Just make the default password some ugly long gibberish and the users are likely to change it to their dog's name just because they don't want to type that monstrosity again.
Because "most users" don't know the difference is not, by itself, a good reason to hide information. They will never learn if you hide the information.
Educated consumers are better for the economy, so don't go out of your way to make things dumber.
I can't trust the government to get off their ass and do it, but I would love to see it on ballots so the people can tell the government that we want this to happen.
Personally I'd like to see us finally move to metric, but I think I'll die before I see that happen.
Why can't they just look at Facebook for the girl? Messaging is similar to email, the posts are on both sides - unless she took effort to delete them.
They can't ask her for her password, but they could certainly exercise power of attorney to get access.
Nothing says merging onto the expressway like "going 15 mph"
If the majority of news about you is what you consider "negative" then the majority of 1st page links will be "bad".
The news isn't what you want to hear, but that doesn't make it "fake".
If you say a lie enough times it might seem true to you, but those outside can still detect the lie.
I really hope it's not a case of "we're on the wrong type of account, but I can't get this $12 / year approved to fix it".
If you're on the wrong type of account then fix it. It's not ok to be on the wrong type just because it's a sliver cheaper and "functions well enough" most of the time.
That said, it is very wrong (yet not uncommon) for a company to charge public-serving agencies more just because their services are more sensitive.
That $12 doesn't seem like a lot until you add up every fire dept in the country, then maybe ambulance, police, school, etc. That $2 is big bucks for Verizon.
A quarter IS a coin. Multiple quarters ARE things.
A roll of quarters IS a thing.
Data IS a collection of things, it IS the collection, much like a roll of quarters.
Points of data are multiple things. But data, as a collection, IS one collection.
That is pretty close to what I'm talking about. It look like it's black and white e-ink. I'd like color, but certainly not a deal breaker.
But I do want the number pad keys. Even the laptops I buy have them because I miss them dearly when they're not there.
I've wondered for a long time why nobody has developed a keyboard with clear chicklet-style keys with an led screen underneath.
That way you can display your normal keys, when you hit shift you could technically flip between upper and lower case letters. When you change keyboard layout (a-la dvorak) the keys can show appropriately.
When playing a game (like WoW) you can show spell icons. When playing an FPS game WASD could show the directions. The flashlight, grenade, chat keys could all show icons.
It doesn't even need to technically have "keys", but i think some sort of cover that simulates the feel of keys would make it easier to use.
So now they should create an iOS, android, windows, blackberry, etc app so that you can vote? Or do they pick only the top 2 and screw everybody else?
If they want to move that way then just do it via web site. But you need to have the verification in place to prove that I cast my vote.
Does a drivers license even prove citizenship? My father in law has a drivers license but isn't a citizen.
But that can add up if 20 people can use your VPS
It would be much simpler to come up with standard online sales tax.
Right now interstates online sales aren't taxed. So instead of saying you need to comply with local taxes they should come up with some average. Make it a set state % and municipal % for online sales, no matter where the buyer is. I say ignore the types of services and tax all online sales - no need to track that either.
Or, the other simplification would be to require it only if you move more than $X worth of sales. So the little guy doesn't get bent over, but the big guys pitch in.
This is what I came to add. Toxoplasmosis as well, is a worm that like human eyeballs. What the show called "Monsters Inside Me" if you want to learn what kind of baddies get into the human body.
For all of the anti-bacterial soap people you should be aware of all of the beneficial stuff that lives on or inside us before you nuke first and ask questions later. One of the theories for Autism is that they lack the good gut bacteria "normal" folk have. Whether they never had it or it was evicted by bad gut bacteria is unknown. Perhaps some other change in body chemistry makes their gut less homey to good gut bacteria.
Set the doors so they only open from the inside, with the exception of the few used as main entrances.
Maybe instead of blowing 4 mill on "new fangled tech" you could used a tried and true tech. HID cards work fine, even finger print scanners would work here (and you still get to collect people's data unnecessarily).
I don't think many of the school shootings in the last 10 years would have been caught by blacklists anyhow.
Having student IDs with trackers and sensors around the school that could "sense" a person without a tracker would locate anyone on campus who is a potential threat. Then you could quickly identify any potential unknown. Having cameras that could snap a shot of the guy and attempt facial recognition at that point would be fine. The cameras could then be few and far between.
That still wouldn't catch a student shooter.
Personally throwing 4 million from the education budget into cameras seems like something not very educational, but that's just me.
Greenberg said accepting bitcoin and bitcoin cash as a payment method will promote transparency and accuracy in payment.
I don't think BitCoin is what he thinks it is.
Step 1: hack into Georgia's power grid
Step 2: attack networks
Step 3: those networks attack back, taking down Georgia's power grid
Step 4: hilarity ensues
I would like the browser to detect that the link I'm hovering over is a shorted URL (even if it's a "known" list), then instead of showing goo.gl/whatever it would hit the URL to find out where it forwards to and show me that.
Because I won't click on a shortened URL unless I'm damn sure it's from a trustworthy source.
There is a difference between "that monitor no longer works with this laptop" and "that monitor no longer works, period".
The blurb says something about turning external monitors into paperweights. To me that means "actively broke it and it no longer works, period". That is not the case if it only broke software on the laptop and the monitor still works fine.
That's the equivalent of "the internet is down" because you can't get a website to load.
In both cases I know you mean one of two things, but I don't know which.
If you state it as "effectively turning the monitor into a paperweight" I can assume that it's the latter example and that the monitor just doesn't work with that laptop.