Some smart TV's have been known to IDENTIFY the CONTENT that you are watching on it, and report that back to a server. It does this by fingerprinting various pixels around the screen. Now, you may not actually use your TV to watch hot latino donkey porn, but your content may be misinterpreted as that.
Worried yet?
More worrisome would be if Samsung, LG, etc... had pixel fingerprints for hot Latino donkey porn in their databases.
An investigation performed by a skulk of foxes into the mysterious deaths of five chickens in a nearby coop revealed no obvious cause and that reports of chicken feathers found in piles of fox poop near the scene were fake news.
Unfortunately this sounds good on paper but in practice it's not going to make any difference for now. Until a sizable portion of browsers do this, blocking is actually going to be an identifying characteristic. The advertisers are going to get a line up of victims and instead of you being the one with Arial and Roboto on their hat, you're going to be the one wearing the tin foil one. That's still a unique, identifying feature until enough of us are wearing tin-foil that they can't tell us apart (by our hats).
Firefox usage is still above 5% nowadays. Not much, but enough to ensure improvement over identification through font fingerprinting.
Blocking at least hides software (OS)/hardware details, which make targeting vulnerabilities a lot harder.
Though I can't attest to the validity of the argument, here's an article I thought was interesting describing how blocking canvas fingerprinting on a low-adoption scale may make one more easily trackable (as the blocking can be used as an identifier): How Canvas Fingerprint Blockers Make You Easily Trackable If the argument is valid, then adding the capability to Firefox and having blocking enabled by default will help eceryone.
Tests showed that under certain conditions the final 3D printed stainless steels were up to three times stronger than steels made by conventional techniques and yet still ductile.
You only need to rent a CableCard from your provider for the main unit(s).
Easier said than done. Who hasn't managed to get themselves an exemption when they moved to SDV? You'll get to rent a tuning adapter for each tuner in that TiVo.
I have a TiVo Bolt with 4 tuners. It uses one multi-channel CableCard and *one* tuning adapter (connected via USB).
You need to rent a box for $8 per month per TV and suffer an egregious Guide.
While you would need to purchase the units, TiVo has "mini" devices that work off your main unit via TCP/IP, either streaming recorded shows from the main unit or temporarily borrowing a free tuner in the main unit to stream something live. Main TiVo units come with 4 or 6 tuners and multi TB hard drives. You only need to rent a CableCard from your provider for the main unit(s). The UI and Guide service are pretty good - though you have to Tivo for the Guide service (either yearly or lifetime). You can also stream Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and other providers from a Tivo device. Some Tivo units support OTA reception as well.
Not as inexpensive as "cutting the cord" but much better quality than most cable provider devices.
Hired by the FBI? For what skill? Being able to connect a USB device between a USB port and a USB keyboard?
For being a sociopath, and willing to do whatever it takes to win, without annoyances like conscience or dignity to get in the way.
I'd say he could get a job on Wall Street, but you actually need skills and/or education for that. Perhaps he can run for President - the bar for that is apparently quite low now.
I don't disagree, just saying that Python isn't the second coming many believe it to be - and the white-space thing is stupid and unnecessary. People can write well/poorly structured programs in any language. Personally, I find (most) Perl scripts - and certainly the ones I write and mentor others to write -- perfectly readable and maintainable, but I've also been using it for a very long time (like with Emacs). I don't know about the scopes of the Perl vs. Python ecosystems, but CPAN is quite extensive.
Now it's Python. Which has the added benefit of being readable.
Hmm... "=", "==", "==="
Not to mention having to exactly preserve the white-space when copying any code around. It becomes much less readable if you don't - unlike other languages that don't care about white-space./just-throwning-that-out-there
What you have is PTSD (Perl Traumatic Stress Disorder).
Actually, Python Tab Stress Disorder. Our last programmer was taken away, still in a cold sweat, weeping about white-space, begging for a curly-brace. We're going to get him one for Christmas - a stuffed curly-brace, he's not allowed to have sharp objects on the ward.
My experience with the Perl hate is it's usually from younger people (by which I mean anyone under about 40). It violates everything some may have been taught as part of their software engineering program: it's difficult to read, maintain, and support.
The quality of the program structure and the ability to read, maintain and support it are due to the programmer, not Perl. People can write programs well/poorly in any language. Like some others here, I *love* Perl and always endeavor to write clear, well-organized code - like I do in any other programming language - so others can make sense of it -- you know, in case I get hit by a bus tomorrow... It's call being professional.
Hate the programmer, not the programming language.
Anyone who complains about Wn95 or Win98 has never tried to live with Windows Millennium which was so bad it made everyone think that Y2K was happening a few months late.
The only thing with the word "Millennium" in its name that didn't suck also had the word "Falcon" in it and even it had problems sometimes.
And they let him go. Because -- because he broke a rule. So my advice to people out there is to just not overlook rules when you're in the workplace or when you're in school or when you're at home."
They had to do what they had to do. I'm not mad at Apple. I'm not going to stop buying Apple products. Rules are in place for the happiness and for the safety of workers
That's just a little creepy.
And she's wrong. Most rules, and especially these rules, are in place for the profitability and security of the company. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but she needs to learn this lesson sooner rather than later.
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"Highly", "secure", "windows". I've heard those words before but never in the same sentence.
I have, when discussing windows on the 80th floor that don't open -- these are highly secure windows.
... you log into your account and create a trouble ticket.
You must be new. Welcome to the Internet.
Some smart TV's have been known to IDENTIFY the CONTENT that you are watching on it, and report that back to a server. It does this by fingerprinting various pixels around the screen. Now, you may not actually use your TV to watch hot latino donkey porn, but your content may be misinterpreted as that.
Worried yet?
More worrisome would be if Samsung, LG, etc... had pixel fingerprints for hot Latino donkey porn in their databases.
Perhaps, like some journalists, the vowels are trying to unionize.
An investigation performed by a skulk of foxes into the mysterious deaths of five chickens in a nearby coop revealed no obvious cause and that reports of chicken feathers found in piles of fox poop near the scene were fake news.
Firefox usage is still above 5% nowadays. Not much, but enough to ensure improvement over identification through font fingerprinting. Blocking at least hides software (OS)/hardware details, which make targeting vulnerabilities a lot harder.
Though I can't attest to the validity of the argument, here's an article I thought was interesting describing how blocking canvas fingerprinting on a low-adoption scale may make one more easily trackable (as the blocking can be used as an identifier): How Canvas Fingerprint Blockers Make You Easily Trackable If the argument is valid, then adding the capability to Firefox and having blocking enabled by default will help eceryone.
Tests showed that under certain conditions the final 3D printed stainless steels were up to three times stronger than steels made by conventional techniques and yet still ductile.
And under *other* conditions? TFA doesn't say.
They sell licenses for $699 each. That can buy some lawyers.
Noting Microsoft charges for Windows Server 2016:
At Uber, employees regularly abused its "God View" mode to spy on the movements of celebrities, politicians, and even ex-spouses.
And, yea, on the Seventh day, God saw that the driver was at 5th and Elm and that it was Good. (... insert chanting in Latin ... )
You only need to rent a CableCard from your provider for the main unit(s).
Easier said than done. Who hasn't managed to get themselves an exemption when they moved to SDV? You'll get to rent a tuning adapter for each tuner in that TiVo.
I have a TiVo Bolt with 4 tuners. It uses one multi-channel CableCard and *one* tuning adapter (connected via USB).
You need to rent a box for $8 per month per TV and suffer an egregious Guide.
While you would need to purchase the units, TiVo has "mini" devices that work off your main unit via TCP/IP, either streaming recorded shows from the main unit or temporarily borrowing a free tuner in the main unit to stream something live. Main TiVo units come with 4 or 6 tuners and multi TB hard drives. You only need to rent a CableCard from your provider for the main unit(s). The UI and Guide service are pretty good - though you have to Tivo for the Guide service (either yearly or lifetime). You can also stream Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and other providers from a Tivo device. Some Tivo units support OTA reception as well.
Not as inexpensive as "cutting the cord" but much better quality than most cable provider devices.
You have no idea how much it warms my heart to see that there are still slashdot users more passionate about character encoding than politics.
Well, there's a remote possibility that character encoding issues can be fixed. The same cannot be said about politics.
for not providing reasonably prices a la carte options. Or people *would* give them money.
And, upstream, not letting Disney force providers/you to pay for ESPN1-n, ABC Family, etc... in order to get ABC and The Disney Channel.
Hired by the FBI? For what skill? Being able to connect a USB device between a USB port and a USB keyboard?
For being a sociopath, and willing to do whatever it takes to win, without annoyances like conscience or dignity to get in the way.
I'd say he could get a job on Wall Street, but you actually need skills and/or education for that. Perhaps he can run for President - the bar for that is apparently quite low now.
I don't disagree, just saying that Python isn't the second coming many believe it to be - and the white-space thing is stupid and unnecessary. People can write well/poorly structured programs in any language. Personally, I find (most) Perl scripts - and certainly the ones I write and mentor others to write -- perfectly readable and maintainable, but I've also been using it for a very long time (like with Emacs). I don't know about the scopes of the Perl vs. Python ecosystems, but CPAN is quite extensive.
Now it's Python. Which has the added benefit of being readable.
Hmm... "=", "==", "==="
Not to mention having to exactly preserve the white-space when copying any code around. It becomes much less readable if you don't - unlike other languages that don't care about white-space. /just-throwning-that-out-there
What you have is PTSD (Perl Traumatic Stress Disorder).
Actually, Python Tab Stress Disorder. Our last programmer was taken away, still in a cold sweat, weeping about white-space, begging for a curly-brace. We're going to get him one for Christmas - a stuffed curly-brace, he's not allowed to have sharp objects on the ward.
My experience with the Perl hate is it's usually from younger people (by which I mean anyone under about 40). It violates everything some may have been taught as part of their software engineering program: it's difficult to read, maintain, and support.
The quality of the program structure and the ability to read, maintain and support it are due to the programmer, not Perl. People can write programs well/poorly in any language. Like some others here, I *love* Perl and always endeavor to write clear, well-organized code - like I do in any other programming language - so others can make sense of it -- you know, in case I get hit by a bus tomorrow... It's call being professional.
Hate the programmer, not the programming language.
Anyone who complains about Wn95 or Win98 has never tried to live with Windows Millennium which was so bad it made everyone think that Y2K was happening a few months late.
The only thing with the word "Millennium" in its name that didn't suck also had the word "Falcon" in it and even it had problems sometimes.
And they let him go. Because -- because he broke a rule. So my advice to people out there is to just not overlook rules when you're in the workplace or when you're in school or when you're at home."
And another complacent worker bee is born.
They had to do what they had to do. I'm not mad at Apple. I'm not going to stop buying Apple products. Rules are in place for the happiness and for the safety of workers
That's just a little creepy.
And she's wrong. Most rules, and especially these rules, are in place for the profitability and security of the company. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but she needs to learn this lesson sooner rather than later.
I couldn't possibly relate to paying for uber expensive fighter jets that I couldn't budget repairs for..
Thanks for the far more relatable scenario of buying exotic cars I can't budget repairs for...
I recently bought the Library of Congress. It was extremely expensive and now I find I don't have any extra money to repair and/or update it.
Happy now?
Except that 3 + 3 * 3 does, in fact, equal 12.
If you'd typed '3 + 3 [enter] * 3 [enter]' you'd get 18.
The Windows Calculator returns 18 in Standard and Programming modes and 12 in Scientific mode.