Many devices can update to Cyanogenmod. Mine has Android 4.2.2 as Cyanogenmod 11,without Google apps, so maybe NSA & Google access to mine is minimal.
The list of Cyanogenmod supported devices is small compared to the wide variety of devices out there. The point about support of older devices still stands as even Cyanogen is dropping support for moderately old devices because they'd prefer to focus on supporting emerging devices.
Or you can look at it in another way: "They fixed a bug on a 12 year old OS?! Awesome!"
As I understand it, the fix was done on the Windows Update server and wasn't actually an OS bug They cleaning up and deprecated a slew of superseded patches (mostly IE) so the OS wasn't checking for ancient, irrelevant patches. The article and people keep referencing the svchost process because the windows update service normally runs under svchost process instead of standalone (although it's trivial to configure it to do so).
If the summary is correct I don't really see how this affects servers all that much... The summary says it is an issue in the first 15-60 minutes after startup. Servers are generally up for longer periods of time so the actual impact would be low for W2K03.
It's about time they fixed this. I intermittently run a Virtual Machine version of XP. A few months ago, I noticed windows update service (running under svchost) would chew up 99% of the cpu when booted up for 10 minutes. Seems the problem was windows updates check for the presence of every single IE update ever released, when they were all superseded by the latest IE cumulative updates anyway and not per-requisites for anything else. I'm not sure why they are patting themselves on the back, when they just did the equivalent of declining superceded updates in WSUS (generally done in seconds, btw).
Oh, you want to know why your HID kit isn't available in the USA? It FAILS DOT SAFETY REGULATIONS BECAUSE OF THE SEVERE AMOUNT OF BLUE LIGHT EMITTED.
You do realize that DOT regulations (not laws, just guidelines which most states adopt in their vehicle code) REQUIRE light to be thrown upwards for overhead street sign illumination. The euro-spec headlights have a much sharper horizontal cutoff which while not passing US DOT standards, throw much less light above horizontal into oncoming drivers eyes.
The cheap aftermarket HID retrofit kits that place an HID bulb inthe stock housing are dangerous because they have such a horrible light pattern that throws a lot of dazzling light into oncoming drivers faces. They are illegal in most of Europe. They are also illegal in most of the US states, although I've never actually heard of someone getting a ticket - just failing a safety inspection.
What was in the case? they called Bamboo case 1) 11 nays (flutes) made by me some of them in Canada some in US 2) material to make new nays in the case 3) flight AA 0095 Madrid to JFK 4) time : 12/22/2013 (notice : on 12/23/2013) 5) Reason : nays from plants which is agricultural items (so l can’t play nay)
His flutes should have been allowed as "unsplit dried bamboo canes".
Had he actually declared them and they were fully dried, then probably yes. Hiding fresh bamboo cutting in your luggage and not declaring them isn't likely to get an automatic exemption when they find it though.
Apparently no-one even read the title, and immediately jumped to the assumption that TSA is at fault. TSA doesn't inspect inbound international luggage, that's the job of Customs, Border Patrol (CBP). Customs has very clear restrictions on bring in plants, timbers, etc and obviously they felt the raw flute making materials qualified under those restrictions.
If you're looking to encourage reading as a hobby, simply find out their interests and recommend something appropriate. Say the kid like sci-fi, then maybe point him towards Heinlen, etc. There are lots of good suggestions above that might peak someones interest, and certainly some written in styles that would make them unapproachable or dry for most teens (Shakespeare and the Bible for example).
Once the bug for reading is planted (it might take time to grow given the generally short attention span of under 21 crowd), then maybe make suggestions or even send them the ebooks.
Aren't new years resolutions generally about improving yourself, and not about telling others how to improve themselves?
The plausible explanation is that they are simply using ez-pass as a means to assess traffic congestion, ie how long is it taking a car to traverse a section of highway. Of course I don't doubt that law enforcement wants access to track people, but generally cell phone tracking is more reliable and readily accessible. Wanna bet these are at the border as well?
Why is this NOT another example of kernel bloat, and the opposite direcion they should be heading (ie getting user stuff out of the kernel)? Seems like the primary use of D-BUS is for the desktop components, which already abuse/overuse inter-process communication. The "huge performance improvement" is only for those processes that shouldn't be abusing this anyway.
And a private company feeding off US taxpayer dollars finishing early? Where's the profit in that?
Happens all the time. Usually when the contract has bonuses for early completion, or it was a fixed-price contract. Sometimes you'll have a contracter overestimate the labor involved, because the task was poorly defined and the contractor made sure they'd still make a profit when the task turns out to be harder than originally thought. Pretty common in R&D contracts.
Ha, You could buy heatballs instead - They are little radiators which conveniently fit into your lightbulb sockets, and are 90% energy efficient (the remaining 10% of the energy is wasted as light) : http://heatball.de/en/
Now there's a marketing scam - selling long-life incandescent as heaters!
I live in Wisconsin, seriously, that "waste" heat is NOT wasted! It's freaking cold outside!! I'm an American, I want to be free to choose!
I doubt you need heat year round. The only way you don't waste energy in that scenario is if you're already using electric resistance heating which is horribly inefficient. Heat pumps are less efficient in the cold, but still outperform resistance heat down to 15*F. If you're routinely colder than that, you have gas/propane/oil backup heat or worst case electric resistance heat.
That said, there are cases where incandescent bulbs are used to provide heat, such as terrariums. For those I guess we're stuck with $4 halogens that don't last any longer instead of the 25-cent walmart specials.
Correct. First known instance of a criticality accident happened at Los Alamos in 1945. Exposure was 510 rem plus additional exposure immediately after. He was pretty sick within hours, but it took him 25 days to die. A similar accident with the same material a year later killed the scientist in 9-days.
Not required, supported. The list is supported hardware. I would assume standard BIOS is supported as well but they wanted to point out that newer UEFI only boards are also supported.
Seems you got modded up, despite being WRONG. UEFI booting is required for the installer, which is why UEFI Support was listed as a hardware requirement in the FAQ you looked at. The requirement is also mentioned further down in the FAQ. Also reference:
The FDA can't guarantee it'll get dangerous foods off the shelves within even a few years. It couldn't halt BP from ditching millions of gallons of neurotoxic, carcinogenic dispersants into the gulf after Deepwater Horizon./quote>
Um, you seem to have EPA and FDA confused. But I agree that there are bigger issues out there with the food supply chain that should be a higher priority.
That's not so far off. If the USPS must pay $5 billion per year, then it shows continual losses, and the whole program can be cut. The Treasury then has a surplus of cash that's no longer earmarked for future employees, so it's a simple bit of labeling magic to release it into general funds.
That $5b/year is due to the USPS being force to paying towards it's existing debts held by the Treasury. USPS currently has about $46b worth of unfunded liabilities because they haven't been setting aside or planning for future retiree benefits. You are aware that USPS can not be funded via general funds by law, right?
That’s a requirement that no business, or any government agency has ever had to comply with.
Yet apparently about 1/4 of the companies with this type of long-term retirement benefit, do set aside that money. It can be done either way (set aside, or plan/calculate future expenditures), but in the case of the USPS they were basically spending that money with no plan to be able to pay retiree benefits. As that money is intended to be for the retiree's future expenses, then if the USPS isn't setting it aside, then really they are borrowing it from the retiree. It's no different than GM borrowing out of the pension funds with no plan to pay it back.
USPS would have defaulted on the Treasury Loan regardless of this bill.
My appointments last 15 minutes at the most, and I spend more time waiting and getting my vitals taken. My insurance is billed $300. I have a tough time wondering why it costs so bloody much. I would much rather pay my doc $30 cash for her time and she would rather not have all the billing overhead./quote>
Your Doctor's time and the overhead costs of his/her office are worth more the $30/15-minutes. That doesn't even cover their salary, much less that of the receptionist, the power bill, and the huge insurance costs.
If all you wanted was the data on the end users disk; e.g. credit card numbers, logins, cookies, email passwords, etc; then this is a desirable feature as it makes it much harder for an individual defending systems to get a copy of the code and exploit.
Additionally, if the worm or virus agent is polymorphic in nature, then this assists in avoiding detection by antivirus scans. Remember, those scans slow down end user machines, many companies only do them once a week. By the time the antivirus company updates their heuristics algorithm your code is commited to cybernetic oblivion.
That's my take as well. If you're a thief breaking into a building to get a copy of important files, you don't leave a busted out window and the safe sitting wide open. The best theft is the one no-one realized happened. For example, the break into Bit-9 where they stole a digital signing cert would have been far more useful if it wasn't detected. Or instead of stealing something, you're leaving something behind such as installing a trusted root cert that you control.
Burton still had a "knee-jerk" response when confronted with Glass
He was asked what he thought of Glass, and he gave his opinion. Sorry, how is that a "knee-jerk" reaction? Would it have been so if he had responded positively?
Here's my reasoned, non knee-jerk response: Google can fuck off, and -- within the bounds imposed by professionalism and etiquitte -- so can eveyrone else wearing these infringements to my privacy. (In what I consider the moral sense, as opposed to the legal sense)
For anyone who didn't read the article (most of you huys I suspect), the knee-jerk reaction he refers to was to wonder and ask, "Am I being recorded?" This is going to be a reaction, just the same as wondering about someone holding up their cellphone while talking to you.
Corrective actions taken is entirely proper. OSHA and MSHA do not exist to penalize companies but to implement and enforce a standard that makes working there relatively safe. If a boss orders you to do something that is against OSHA policies, you have the ability to personally sue them. OSHA has the ability to ensure they do not do it again which can mean corrective action like retraining employees and supervisors or using different safety equipment.
Cash settlements and fines should be reserved for repetitive violations. And remember, regardless of OSHA fines or action, the employee retains a right to recover damages independent of OSHA. In fact, OSHA makes it easier because their regulation is the de facto industry minimum.
Much like the highway patrol is there to improve safety? No, OSHA and MSHA lately have been more interested in their own budget instead of real safety. Look at their VPP program where companies can now pay for the privilege of getting inspected less frequently. The VPP inspection is a joke, consisting of nothing more than a single site inspection and no recent reported injuries (not that companies voluntarily report any way).
- being able to clean up nuclear radiation would be great to avoid a "permanent" wasteland. then again, it brings the option of using nukes back on the table.
Crap my tablet isn't working! Quick get the US to go nuke some pissant country so I can get youtube to show me cute kittens again. Oh wait, aren't we already bombing 2nd-world countries to maintain our flow of cheap oil?
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Many devices can update to Cyanogenmod. Mine has Android 4.2.2 as Cyanogenmod 11,without Google apps, so maybe NSA & Google access to mine is minimal.
The list of Cyanogenmod supported devices is small compared to the wide variety of devices out there. The point about support of older devices still stands as even Cyanogen is dropping support for moderately old devices because they'd prefer to focus on supporting emerging devices.
Or you can look at it in another way: "They fixed a bug on a 12 year old OS?! Awesome!"
As I understand it, the fix was done on the Windows Update server and wasn't actually an OS bug They cleaning up and deprecated a slew of superseded patches (mostly IE) so the OS wasn't checking for ancient, irrelevant patches. The article and people keep referencing the svchost process because the windows update service normally runs under svchost process instead of standalone (although it's trivial to configure it to do so).
If the summary is correct I don't really see how this affects servers all that much... The summary says it is an issue in the first 15-60 minutes after startup. Servers are generally up for longer periods of time so the actual impact would be low for W2K03.
It's about time they fixed this. I intermittently run a Virtual Machine version of XP. A few months ago, I noticed windows update service (running under svchost) would chew up 99% of the cpu when booted up for 10 minutes. Seems the problem was windows updates check for the presence of every single IE update ever released, when they were all superseded by the latest IE cumulative updates anyway and not per-requisites for anything else. I'm not sure why they are patting themselves on the back, when they just did the equivalent of declining superceded updates in WSUS (generally done in seconds, btw).
No, the cheapest electricity is geothermal.
Depends on whose estimates you're looking at, and what country. DOE claims Natural Gas is much cheaper, when you look at 30-years costs including the cost of the power plants. Solar and off-shore wind are ridiculously expensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#US_Department_of_Energy_estimates
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/er/electricity_generation.cfm
Oh, you want to know why your HID kit isn't available in the USA? It FAILS DOT SAFETY REGULATIONS BECAUSE OF THE SEVERE AMOUNT OF BLUE LIGHT EMITTED.
You do realize that DOT regulations (not laws, just guidelines which most states adopt in their vehicle code) REQUIRE light to be thrown upwards for overhead street sign illumination. The euro-spec headlights have a much sharper horizontal cutoff which while not passing US DOT standards, throw much less light above horizontal into oncoming drivers eyes.
You are correct that DOT specifies chromatic limits for "white" headlights, but that range is pretty wide. http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=571.108.
The cheap aftermarket HID retrofit kits that place an HID bulb inthe stock housing are dangerous because they have such a horrible light pattern that throws a lot of dazzling light into oncoming drivers faces. They are illegal in most of Europe. They are also illegal in most of the US states, although I've never actually heard of someone getting a ticket - just failing a safety inspection.
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/266x198xboujemaa-neys-300x224.jpg.pagespeed.ic.0cUyxS4qkI.jpg
A picture of what the finished flutes (nays) looked like, and a list of what else was in the case
Boujemaa adds some specifics of the case:
What was in the case? they called Bamboo case
1) 11 nays (flutes) made by me some of them in Canada some in US
2) material to make new nays in the case
3) flight AA 0095 Madrid to JFK
4) time : 12/22/2013 (notice : on 12/23/2013)
5) Reason : nays from plants which is agricultural items (so l can’t play nay)
His flutes should have been allowed as "unsplit dried bamboo canes".
Had he actually declared them and they were fully dried, then probably yes. Hiding fresh bamboo cutting in your luggage and not declaring them isn't likely to get an automatic exemption when they find it though.
Apparently no-one even read the title, and immediately jumped to the assumption that TSA is at fault. TSA doesn't inspect inbound international luggage, that's the job of Customs, Border Patrol (CBP). Customs has very clear restrictions on bring in plants, timbers, etc and obviously they felt the raw flute making materials qualified under those restrictions.
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/id_visa/kbyg/prohibited_restricted.xml#PlantsandSeeds
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/permits/index.shtml
http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/newsroom/fact_sheets/agriculture/olympic_ag.ctt/olympic_ag.pdf
Had he known about the restrictions and he declared them, it wouldn't have been an issue.
If you're looking to encourage reading as a hobby, simply find out their interests and recommend something appropriate. Say the kid like sci-fi, then maybe point him towards Heinlen, etc. There are lots of good suggestions above that might peak someones interest, and certainly some written in styles that would make them unapproachable or dry for most teens (Shakespeare and the Bible for example).
Once the bug for reading is planted (it might take time to grow given the generally short attention span of under 21 crowd), then maybe make suggestions or even send them the ebooks.
Aren't new years resolutions generally about improving yourself, and not about telling others how to improve themselves?
E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths)
The plausible explanation is that they are simply using ez-pass as a means to assess traffic congestion, ie how long is it taking a car to traverse a section of highway. Of course I don't doubt that law enforcement wants access to track people, but generally cell phone tracking is more reliable and readily accessible. Wanna bet these are at the border as well?
Why is this NOT another example of kernel bloat, and the opposite direcion they should be heading (ie getting user stuff out of the kernel)? Seems like the primary use of D-BUS is for the desktop components, which already abuse/overuse inter-process communication. The "huge performance improvement" is only for those processes that shouldn't be abusing this anyway.
And a private company feeding off US taxpayer dollars finishing early? Where's the profit in that?
Happens all the time. Usually when the contract has bonuses for early completion, or it was a fixed-price contract. Sometimes you'll have a contracter overestimate the labor involved, because the task was poorly defined and the contractor made sure they'd still make a profit when the task turns out to be harder than originally thought. Pretty common in R&D contracts.
Ha, You could buy heatballs instead - They are little radiators which conveniently fit into your lightbulb sockets, and are 90% energy efficient (the remaining 10% of the energy is wasted as light) : http://heatball.de/en/
Now there's a marketing scam - selling long-life incandescent as heaters!
I live in Wisconsin, seriously, that "waste" heat is NOT wasted! It's freaking cold outside!! I'm an American, I want to be free to choose!
I doubt you need heat year round. The only way you don't waste energy in that scenario is if you're already using electric resistance heating which is horribly inefficient. Heat pumps are less efficient in the cold, but still outperform resistance heat down to 15*F. If you're routinely colder than that, you have gas/propane/oil backup heat or worst case electric resistance heat.
That said, there are cases where incandescent bulbs are used to provide heat, such as terrariums. For those I guess we're stuck with $4 halogens that don't last any longer instead of the 25-cent walmart specials.
Correct. First known instance of a criticality accident happened at Los Alamos in 1945. Exposure was 510 rem plus additional exposure immediately after. He was pretty sick within hours, but it took him 25 days to die. A similar accident with the same material a year later killed the scientist in 9-days.
Perhaps inaccessible meant difficult for a fiber splicing guy with his fusion splicing equipment to get to?
Not required, supported. The list is supported hardware. I would assume standard BIOS is supported as well but they wanted to point out that newer UEFI only boards are also supported.
Seems you got modded up, despite being WRONG. UEFI booting is required for the installer, which is why UEFI Support was listed as a hardware requirement in the FAQ you looked at. The requirement is also mentioned further down in the FAQ. Also reference:
http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395741989999/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/valve-releases-steamos-beta-early-build-your-own-system-requirements/
One benefit to this is that people won't be trying to install this on an old piece of crap and then complaining it's slow.
The FDA can't guarantee it'll get dangerous foods off the shelves within even a few years. It couldn't halt BP from ditching millions of gallons of neurotoxic, carcinogenic dispersants into the gulf after Deepwater Horizon./quote>
Um, you seem to have EPA and FDA confused. But I agree that there are bigger issues out there with the food supply chain that should be a higher priority.
That's not so far off. If the USPS must pay $5 billion per year, then it shows continual losses, and the whole program can be cut. The Treasury then has a surplus of cash that's no longer earmarked for future employees, so it's a simple bit of labeling magic to release it into general funds.
That $5b/year is due to the USPS being force to paying towards it's existing debts held by the Treasury. USPS currently has about $46b worth of unfunded liabilities because they haven't been setting aside or planning for future retiree benefits. You are aware that USPS can not be funded via general funds by law, right?
That’s a requirement that no business, or any government agency has ever had to comply with.
Yet apparently about 1/4 of the companies with this type of long-term retirement benefit, do set aside that money. It can be done either way (set aside, or plan/calculate future expenditures), but in the case of the USPS they were basically spending that money with no plan to be able to pay retiree benefits. As that money is intended to be for the retiree's future expenses, then if the USPS isn't setting it aside, then really they are borrowing it from the retiree. It's no different than GM borrowing out of the pension funds with no plan to pay it back.
USPS would have defaulted on the Treasury Loan regardless of this bill.
My appointments last 15 minutes at the most, and I spend more time waiting and getting my vitals taken. My insurance is billed $300. I have a tough time wondering why it costs so bloody much. I would much rather pay my doc $30 cash for her time and she would rather not have all the billing overhead./quote>
Your Doctor's time and the overhead costs of his/her office are worth more the $30/15-minutes. That doesn't even cover their salary, much less that of the receptionist, the power bill, and the huge insurance costs.
If all you wanted was the data on the end users disk; e.g. credit card numbers, logins, cookies, email passwords, etc; then this is a desirable feature as it makes it much harder for an individual defending systems to get a copy of the code and exploit.
Additionally, if the worm or virus agent is polymorphic in nature, then this assists in avoiding detection by antivirus scans. Remember, those scans slow down end user machines, many companies only do them once a week. By the time the antivirus company updates their heuristics algorithm your code is commited to cybernetic oblivion.
That's my take as well. If you're a thief breaking into a building to get a copy of important files, you don't leave a busted out window and the safe sitting wide open. The best theft is the one no-one realized happened. For example, the break into Bit-9 where they stole a digital signing cert would have been far more useful if it wasn't detected. Or instead of stealing something, you're leaving something behind such as installing a trusted root cert that you control.
He was asked what he thought of Glass, and he gave his opinion. Sorry, how is that a "knee-jerk" reaction? Would it have been so if he had responded positively?
Here's my reasoned, non knee-jerk response: Google can fuck off, and -- within the bounds imposed by professionalism and etiquitte -- so can eveyrone else wearing these infringements to my privacy. (In what I consider the moral sense, as opposed to the legal sense)
For anyone who didn't read the article (most of you huys I suspect), the knee-jerk reaction he refers to was to wonder and ask, "Am I being recorded?" This is going to be a reaction, just the same as wondering about someone holding up their cellphone while talking to you.
Corrective actions taken is entirely proper. OSHA and MSHA do not exist to penalize companies but to implement and enforce a standard that makes working there relatively safe. If a boss orders you to do something that is against OSHA policies, you have the ability to personally sue them. OSHA has the ability to ensure they do not do it again which can mean corrective action like retraining employees and supervisors or using different safety equipment.
Cash settlements and fines should be reserved for repetitive violations. And remember, regardless of OSHA fines or action, the employee retains a right to recover damages independent of OSHA. In fact, OSHA makes it easier because their regulation is the de facto industry minimum.
Much like the highway patrol is there to improve safety? No, OSHA and MSHA lately have been more interested in their own budget instead of real safety. Look at their VPP program where companies can now pay for the privilege of getting inspected less frequently. The VPP inspection is a joke, consisting of nothing more than a single site inspection and no recent reported injuries (not that companies voluntarily report any way).
- being able to clean up nuclear radiation would be great to avoid a "permanent" wasteland. then again, it brings the option of using nukes back on the table.
Crap my tablet isn't working! Quick get the US to go nuke some pissant country so I can get youtube to show me cute kittens again. Oh wait, aren't we already bombing 2nd-world countries to maintain our flow of cheap oil?