"Nvidia said it generated $289 million in sales from cryptocurrency miners"
Your statement and Nvidia's statement really don't match up do they, sure they didn't build new production but they certainly would of gone to full capacity at a time when normally it would have been quiet with gamers waiting for the next gen'.
And any gamer with savvy won't touch an ex-miner-card because they've been 'ragged'. A card would have to be 90% off of SRP before I'd even consider it. And it's a bad time to get a card when the next generation is about to come out and new memory chips are coming out that are literally more than twice as fast as the previous gen memory chips.
FTA: "According to Nafeez, all an attacker needs to do is to lure a user on an HTTP site. This site can be under his control, or a legitimate site where the attacker can execute malicious code â"for example, via malvertising (malicious ads).
This allows the attacker to steal and decrypt "secrets" from that site, such as session cookies, which, in turn, let the hacker log into that website as the user."
Doesn't sound like much to worry about to me, the hacker can only get data from sites under their control or that they have ads on. Not blocking ads yet?
Straw man, I didn't say they should ignore a 'threat vector'. I said what action they should take - action that costs less and is relative to the size of the problem.
People are going nuts about copyright these days, I find it sad, remember it is a right granted by us the public. And in the UK it's us that are paying for BBCs programs to be made. They do an extremely poor job selling those programs globally, perhaps they are focusing their energy wrong, this witch-hunt is an example of that.
BBC worldwide is far worse than any 'threat vector' for doing a really bad job of selling the content it makes worldwide.
It's a matter of degree, I don't think it's worth paying lawyers a load of money over a 53 second clip. An episode yes, a few seconds, no.
They would have done enough by sending a strictly worded threatening memo to all staff under suspicion that they could be fired and prosecuted. Take-downs of the clip also appear to have been fairly successful.
Getting the videos taken down as they did is good enough. Asking for details on the leakers is good enough. The rest is overkill for a 53 second clip. If people are fanatical about Dr Who then they will watch it anyway. If they're not fanatical about Dr Who then they very likely will never see the clip. All BBC has to do is say the clip is not representative of the final cut.
BBC is exceptionally good at wasting money. What way to better waste money than to go to the ends of the earth trying to prosecute someone who is effectively adding to hype about your show. What are they even going to do when they find out who the leaker is, can't really do much beyond fire them if they're here in the UK. Civil damages? 1p would more than cover it.
AKA get a fucking life BBC and stop wasting public money.
Yeah right, I bet you can't play 90% of PC games that were released in the last 3 years without massive headaches mucking about re-installing and having to re-write lines in config files or try a myriad of different combinations of obscure settings and praying that you can get to the end of the game without some new game stopping issue happening, and that's when they work at all.
Windows 7 actually plays games better than Windows 10, Windows 10 broke a lot of game related stuff. I'm glad I never installed 10 even from a gaming perspective.
Yeah, my goodwill for Mozilla has gone, I use a fork that fixes the privacy issues, has multiple processes and runs my favourite browser addons.
They lost my goodwill by taking away the main reason for me liking Firefox - it's customizability. And they lost my goodwill by clearly not caring about my privacy - WebRTC stun servers, unwanted addons etc.
The point is if we carry on like this then we'll be burning more and more gas until it's all gone and that'd be very bad for global CO2 levels. And then what? I can just see some countries going back to coal when gas starts getting expensive.
No, disposable income is income minus ( taxes+all bills), disposable income is spare money to spend on anything. It's really not comparable to income or income minus tax.
"Money, while it cannot buy happiness, is an important means to achieving higher living standards. In Italy, the average household net-adjusted disposable income per capita is USD 26 063 a year, lower than the OECD average of USD 30 563 a year. But there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest â" the top 20% of the population earn close to six times as much as the bottom 20%."
Note it doesn't say income, it says Disposable income, big difference, similar for Spain.
It's 100% bluff, Google aren't going to stop giving away Android for free, they want it to be used as much as possible, remember they are paying some carriers to make sure they install it, of course they're not going to reverse that.
50% of their ad revenue. It wouldn't make any sense to risk that.
There's stlll a huge amount of FUD and out of date info out there surrounding renewables. The Koch's et al pay scientists to write bad papers. The right wing press/media (fox etc) shit on renewables regularly. The left-wing press is often as dumb as fuck and will print articles that are fallacious and wrong because they think they have to be 'fair and balanced' and the way to balance out true facts is obviously to print articles that have false facts or whatever stupid thinking is going through their idiot heads (I am a left winger but FML). Press in general like to print flame-bait because that attracts views and comment and controversy which all keeps them going.
1. You didn't read the whole line, my phone has a very bright screen, but in sunshine, maps should be high contrast, they are not. 2. I live in the UK where this is not true, maps is clearly made for your country, not mine, it's useless here WRT to road names. 3. Not at all, you're grasping at straws. doesn't work. I don't know the name of every road, often I want to know the names of roads I'm turning in to on my route, I prefer to know my route than to use navigation, navigation doesn't work well in a complex city like mine with an extremely chaotic road system and a lot of small side roads. 4. Used it a thousand times on multiple android phones, it never ever remembers a post code. 5. Slow and fails often, I'm usually going by post code, a post code look up should never take more than a second since it's a simple post code to coordinates conversion. And they still have post codes in the wrong place and people (at the postcode) tell them repeatedly and they don't fix it. 6. Oh, just factory reset my phone, no thanks, crap advice, do you reinstall windows and all of your software and spend hours re-configuring everything every time sometime goes wrong on your PC? 7. I didn't want the ads in the first place, why would I pick adverts to annoy me using exactly the same sound as when I receive a text? 8.I know exactly how to use maps, you simply won't admit any problem with it, obviously blinded by fanboyism, nothing you've said negates anything I said.
Primarily: The visuals are crap - ultra-low-contrast, it doesn't show road names in the UK without an enormous amount of faff, it's slow to search, it never remembers locations, the postcode database is lacking.
I don't know why you feel the need to defend something that is horribly broken rather than just admit there are some aspects that need fixing.
It's a shame that ghostery have been working hard at completely fucking up the interface, you used to be able to open settings in a tab, now settings is restricted to a small box, great fun when you're trying to look at hundreds of lines.
I wish developers would put usability before whatever the fuck design thing they're following. They've gone down the route of hey, lets replace all the meaningful words with lots of confusing icons that do fuck-knows-what. And top top it off I have no fucking idea if those are toggle buttons or what ever, I don't know if they are on or off if they are toggle buttons.
And this: [not] Smart blocker - "automatically block and unblock trackers to optimize page performance", FML, do I need to explain why this is just wrong.
Yeah, but the efficiency and price is what will cause solar to be unstoppable over the next couple of decades, solar will end up costing 1 to 2c per kwh and there are a whole myriad of energy storage technologies that are no-where near matured yet.
I think most (75%+) energy will come from solar in the future.
Like the fairy-tale where one man runs a company that sends rockets in to space, is racing ahead with a luxury electric car company, produces leading battery storage for vehicles and properties and has some innovative solar products to boot.
Yeah, what an idiot, an intelligent person would have done far better. I'm not a Musk fan boy, but it's pretty obvious the man is no idiot.
It's just a shame he can't keep up with google WRT autonomous driving.
I'm not a fanboy but I'm still impressed at how well Musk gets this stuff working. They met their target, no-one thought they would, I was pretty sceptical myself.
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"GPU production did not substantially increase"
FTS:
"Nvidia said it generated $289 million in sales from cryptocurrency miners"
Your statement and Nvidia's statement really don't match up do they, sure they didn't build new production but they certainly would of gone to full capacity at a time when normally it would have been quiet with gamers waiting for the next gen'.
And any gamer with savvy won't touch an ex-miner-card because they've been 'ragged'. A card would have to be 90% off of SRP before I'd even consider it. And it's a bad time to get a card when the next generation is about to come out and new memory chips are coming out that are literally more than twice as fast as the previous gen memory chips.
FTA:
"According to Nafeez, all an attacker needs to do is to lure a user on an HTTP site. This site can be under his control, or a legitimate site where the attacker can execute malicious code â"for example, via malvertising (malicious ads).
This allows the attacker to steal and decrypt "secrets" from that site, such as session cookies, which, in turn, let the hacker log into that website as the user."
Doesn't sound like much to worry about to me, the hacker can only get data from sites under their control or that they have ads on. Not blocking ads yet?
Straw man, I didn't say they should ignore a 'threat vector'. I said what action they should take - action that costs less and is relative to the size of the problem.
People are going nuts about copyright these days, I find it sad, remember it is a right granted by us the public. And in the UK it's us that are paying for BBCs programs to be made. They do an extremely poor job selling those programs globally, perhaps they are focusing their energy wrong, this witch-hunt is an example of that.
BBC worldwide is far worse than any 'threat vector' for doing a really bad job of selling the content it makes worldwide.
It's a matter of degree, I don't think it's worth paying lawyers a load of money over a 53 second clip. An episode yes, a few seconds, no.
They would have done enough by sending a strictly worded threatening memo to all staff under suspicion that they could be fired and prosecuted. Take-downs of the clip also appear to have been fairly successful.
Getting the videos taken down as they did is good enough. Asking for details on the leakers is good enough. The rest is overkill for a 53 second clip. If people are fanatical about Dr Who then they will watch it anyway. If they're not fanatical about Dr Who then they very likely will never see the clip. All BBC has to do is say the clip is not representative of the final cut.
PS "A 53-second clip"
53 fucking seconds.
BBC is exceptionally good at wasting money. What way to better waste money than to go to the ends of the earth trying to prosecute someone who is effectively adding to hype about your show. What are they even going to do when they find out who the leaker is, can't really do much beyond fire them if they're here in the UK. Civil damages? 1p would more than cover it.
AKA get a fucking life BBC and stop wasting public money.
Yeah right, I bet you can't play 90% of PC games that were released in the last 3 years without massive headaches mucking about re-installing and having to re-write lines in config files or try a myriad of different combinations of obscure settings and praying that you can get to the end of the game without some new game stopping issue happening, and that's when they work at all.
Windows 7 actually plays games better than Windows 10, Windows 10 broke a lot of game related stuff. I'm glad I never installed 10 even from a gaming perspective.
Yeah, my goodwill for Mozilla has gone, I use a fork that fixes the privacy issues, has multiple processes and runs my favourite browser addons.
They lost my goodwill by taking away the main reason for me liking Firefox - it's customizability. And they lost my goodwill by clearly not caring about my privacy - WebRTC stun servers, unwanted addons etc.
This bugs the hell out of me, You even get environmentalists Blasély stating that gas is fine as an intermediatory step between coal and ??????, but they're too fucking lazy to even decide what the ??????? is or when it should be in place.
The point is if we carry on like this then we'll be burning more and more gas until it's all gone and that'd be very bad for global CO2 levels. And then what? I can just see some countries going back to coal when gas starts getting expensive.
It simply ain't good enough.
You forgot adverts and fake news.
Well, that's the way the US census is doing it, but the EU organisation doing the measuring in the EU is not counting disposable income that way.
No, disposable income is income minus ( taxes+all bills), disposable income is spare money to spend on anything. It's really not comparable to income or income minus tax.
"Money, while it cannot buy happiness, is an important means to achieving higher living standards. In Italy, the average household net-adjusted disposable income per capita is USD 26 063 a year, lower than the OECD average of USD 30 563 a year. But there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest â" the top 20% of the population earn close to six times as much as the bottom 20%."
Note it doesn't say income, it says Disposable income, big difference, similar for Spain.
Those figures don't sound right for italy and spain TBH....Very very old figures?
Failed states by what metric?
Apply the same metric to the states in the US and report back.
Indeed, how do I know Deep Mind isn't prone to lying and is plotting to take control of Earth already!
TBH I think an advanced intelligence would see the stupidity of war.
It's 100% bluff, Google aren't going to stop giving away Android for free, they want it to be used as much as possible, remember they are paying some carriers to make sure they install it, of course they're not going to reverse that.
50% of their ad revenue. It wouldn't make any sense to risk that.
There's stlll a huge amount of FUD and out of date info out there surrounding renewables. The Koch's et al pay scientists to write bad papers. The right wing press/media (fox etc) shit on renewables regularly. The left-wing press is often as dumb as fuck and will print articles that are fallacious and wrong because they think they have to be 'fair and balanced' and the way to balance out true facts is obviously to print articles that have false facts or whatever stupid thinking is going through their idiot heads (I am a left winger but FML). Press in general like to print flame-bait because that attracts views and comment and controversy which all keeps them going.
1. You didn't read the whole line, my phone has a very bright screen, but in sunshine, maps should be high contrast, they are not.
2. I live in the UK where this is not true, maps is clearly made for your country, not mine, it's useless here WRT to road names.
3. Not at all, you're grasping at straws. doesn't work. I don't know the name of every road, often I want to know the names of roads I'm turning in to on my route, I prefer to know my route than to use navigation, navigation doesn't work well in a complex city like mine with an extremely chaotic road system and a lot of small side roads.
4. Used it a thousand times on multiple android phones, it never ever remembers a post code.
5. Slow and fails often, I'm usually going by post code, a post code look up should never take more than a second since it's a simple post code to coordinates conversion. And they still have post codes in the wrong place and people (at the postcode) tell them repeatedly and they don't fix it.
6. Oh, just factory reset my phone, no thanks, crap advice, do you reinstall windows and all of your software and spend hours re-configuring everything every time sometime goes wrong on your PC?
7. I didn't want the ads in the first place, why would I pick adverts to annoy me using exactly the same sound as when I receive a text?
8.I know exactly how to use maps, you simply won't admit any problem with it, obviously blinded by fanboyism, nothing you've said negates anything I said.
Primarily: The visuals are crap - ultra-low-contrast, it doesn't show road names in the UK without an enormous amount of faff, it's slow to search, it never remembers locations, the postcode database is lacking.
I don't know why you feel the need to defend something that is horribly broken rather than just admit there are some aspects that need fixing.
Same - Ghostery.
It's a shame that ghostery have been working hard at completely fucking up the interface, you used to be able to open settings in a tab, now settings is restricted to a small box, great fun when you're trying to look at hundreds of lines.
I wish developers would put usability before whatever the fuck design thing they're following. They've gone down the route of hey, lets replace all the meaningful words with lots of confusing icons that do fuck-knows-what. And top top it off I have no fucking idea if those are toggle buttons or what ever, I don't know if they are on or off if they are toggle buttons.
And this:
[not] Smart blocker - "automatically block and unblock trackers to optimize page performance", FML, do I need to explain why this is just wrong.
Well any time you want to use free energy, wind is free, sun is free, water moving downhill is free, tides are free, the earth's heat is free.
Yeah, but the efficiency and price is what will cause solar to be unstoppable over the next couple of decades, solar will end up costing 1 to 2c per kwh and there are a whole myriad of energy storage technologies that are no-where near matured yet.
I think most (75%+) energy will come from solar in the future.
Like the fairy-tale where one man runs a company that sends rockets in to space, is racing ahead with a luxury electric car company, produces leading battery storage for vehicles and properties and has some innovative solar products to boot.
Yeah, what an idiot, an intelligent person would have done far better. I'm not a Musk fan boy, but it's pretty obvious the man is no idiot.
It's just a shame he can't keep up with google WRT autonomous driving.
I'm not a fanboy but I'm still impressed at how well Musk gets this stuff working. They met their target, no-one thought they would, I was pretty sceptical myself.