It isn't a problem with it doing the math. It is a problem of capturing the key press. Being that the button decided to do some fancy animations I expect it just prevented the next plus button from being registered.
So is our President -- literally and figuratively (lack of personal morality: lying, groping women, stiffing contractors, Charlottesville response, "pick a tweet", etc...)
I've been around long enough to know how ignorant I am. I don't assume the universe obeys my preconceptions. Huh! But I know a frelling fact when it hits me in the face!
- Dominar Rygel XVI, "Farscape: I Shrink Therefore I Am (#4.8)" (2002)
What if I have a home security system?
Amazon Key is not integrated with home security systems. On the day of delivery, you will need to disarm your home security alarm.
... the acceptable vendor price of unrestricted bandwidth is $10. Sure, some people might say, "but that's on top of the regular price" but that's not how math works. Adding infinity to any number is still infinity. If Verizon is willing to accept $10 more for unrestricted, it can simply accept $10 for everything.
I wish marketing people short lives and long deaths - stuck in hellish theoretical Math courses forever trying to solve equations for "Beyond Unlimited".
One possible workaround is to turn off NFC, which some users say stops or lowers the noises.
Turning off the phone completely might stop or lower the noises even more, but I think the embedded surveillance device, actually generating the noise, is always active, unless you take out the battery - oh wait...
[ Obviously, I think I mean this to be funny, but seriously don't even know anymore. Both Google *and* the Government would really like to have always-on tracking and surveillance./tin-foil-phone-cozy ]
In a related story, authorities are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a number of people aged 20 to 45 years old who lived near the testing facilities conducting the Trials...
Ya, but the testing facility is also next to the Soylent Green processing plant.
In "Krazy Kripples", Christopher Reeve comes to town to promote stem cell research. In order to 'cure' his quadriplegia, he is shown sucking the fluids out of fetuses from a medical bio-hazard container. With each fetus he sucks dry, Reeves becomes healthier and more dependent on them for his developing super human strength.
Warp drive is not beyond the realms of being real. Scientists have theorised about how a real warp drive might work.
Faster than light travel is more of a... problem though.
Actually... While the speed of light is a constraint for things traveling *in* space it apparently doesn't apply to Space itself. The Alcubierre Drive is theorized to work by warping space itself to achieve effective FTL travel. From the Wikipedia article:
Rather than exceeding the speed of light within a local reference frame, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel. Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.
Not sure I see the issue with this one. We have dishes for transmitting all kinds of RF signals now, using them to transmit whatever is used to generate deflector shields doesn't seem to unlikely.
... they suggested that by positioning a magnetic dipole shield at the Mars L1 Lagrange Point, an artificial magnetosphere could be formed that would encompass the entire planet, thus shielding it from solar wind and radiation. (see third graphic down)
Everything else feels like a bog standard Hollywood action movie with tons of CG.
Indeed and The Orville does pretty well on this front with a LOT smaller budget than STD. Shows stand and fall on good characters and story lines and I'll accept lower production quality if they have the former. And while it seems like many people here don't like Seth MacFarlane, The Orville seems like a more positive show about discovery while ST: Discovery seems more about war. I prefer the former to the latter.
Discovery and Orville are both takes on the "same thing, only different." And that's fine. There isn't a right way to do it, because what people want is basically impossible.
Perhaps not as simple as a right vs. wrong way to do it, but it seems like The Orville is a more positive show about discovery and ST: Discovery is more about war and that the ends justify the means (which a lot of people seem to support these days).
And I know the shows are named after the ships, but I can't help imagining that the name Discovery was chosen to make us think exploration, which the show doesn't actually seem to be about. I know I was disappointed. I've only seen the broadcast episode of STD, as I refuse to pay for CBS All Access to watch one show, so maybe I'm missing positive things that have developed since. I probably would have watched ST: Discovery, even with all it's "not Star Trek" sensibilities, but CBS lost me at "pay up". Oh well.
And, you know, that's fine. If cameras don't deter bad behavior, so be it. But in that case, FFS, use the footage, both against criminals who otherwise benefit from the ambiguity the lack of footage would bring, and against bad cops.
Cameras aren't just about deterring bad behavior, they're also about being able to reliably deal with he said/she said situations where there are severe consequences for believing one party over the other.
I heard this story on NPR and at the end the head of the DC Police said much the same and offered a real-world example. They broadcast the audio ('cause it was radio) of a real encounter where a man was threatening his wife with a knife. After repeated calls to drop the knife and back away, he continued and was shot by the police. Afterward, some people questioned if the guy actually had a knife, but it was readily visible in the video. Cameras can "protect", perhaps after the fact, both civilians and police.
Biometrics are not more secure than passwords - they're less secure but sufficiently more convenient that you can convince people to use them.
A fingerprint is more convenient until the moment you get a blister (or some other damage) on your finger(s), then you're locked out. Seems unlikely? When I got a job at the NASA LaRC way, way back, I had to get fingerprinted, but couldn't because I had been working on my car that week and my hands and fingers were all beat up. I had to wait a week for them to clear up enough to get processed.
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It isn't a problem with it doing the math. It is a problem of capturing the key press. Being that the button decided to do some fancy animations I expect it just prevented the next plus button from being registered.
It takes courage to provide an input buffer.
Typical Apple. Form over function.
They already made smartphones which couldn't make phone calls, so I guess this is just one more instance in that vein.
They also don't grow, or even sell, apples.
Their 'state' government is a bankrupt disaster.
So is our President -- literally and figuratively (lack of personal morality: lying, groping women, stiffing contractors, Charlottesville response, "pick a tweet", etc...)
Just sayin' ...
Vogt had asked people to call in to share their stories of why they think Facebook may be using the microphone to collect information for advertisers.
Bet you'll find plenty of insecure voting machines around.
Tell them they're pretty or handsome and doing a really good job. That'll help their self-esteem.
I've been around long enough to know how ignorant I am. I don't assume the universe obeys my preconceptions. Huh! But I know a frelling fact when it hits me in the face!
- Dominar Rygel XVI, "Farscape: I Shrink Therefore I Am (#4.8)" (2002)
$10 more for a higher restriction. Streaming bandwidth is still restricted.
Ya, but higher resolution requires more bandwidth.
From their site
What if I have a home security system? Amazon Key is not integrated with home security systems. On the day of delivery, you will need to disarm your home security alarm.
And lock up your dog and/or cat.
I wish marketing people short lives and long deaths - stuck in hellish theoretical Math courses forever trying to solve equations for "Beyond Unlimited".
One possible workaround is to turn off NFC, which some users say stops or lowers the noises.
Turning off the phone completely might stop or lower the noises even more, but I think the embedded surveillance device, actually generating the noise, is always active, unless you take out the battery - oh wait...
[ Obviously, I think I mean this to be funny, but seriously don't even know anymore. Both Google *and* the Government would really like to have always-on tracking and surveillance. /tin-foil-phone-cozy ]
Anti-aging treatments will decimate their demographics, the median age, someone noted, is "dead five years".
In a related story, authorities are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a number of people aged 20 to 45 years old who lived near the testing facilities conducting the Trials...
Ya, but the testing facility is also next to the Soylent Green processing plant.
Life imitates Futurama.
Or South Park
In "Krazy Kripples", Christopher Reeve comes to town to promote stem cell research. In order to 'cure' his quadriplegia, he is shown sucking the fluids out of fetuses from a medical bio-hazard container. With each fetus he sucks dry, Reeves becomes healthier and more dependent on them for his developing super human strength.
Hmm... Maybe it's art imitating life.
He said the "overwhelming majority" of public input favored the elimination of the rule, ...
I imagine that "public input" doesn't necessarily mean "the public".
Warp drive is not beyond the realms of being real. Scientists have theorised about how a real warp drive might work.
Faster than light travel is more of a... problem though.
Actually... While the speed of light is a constraint for things traveling *in* space it apparently doesn't apply to Space itself. The Alcubierre Drive is theorized to work by warping space itself to achieve effective FTL travel. From the Wikipedia article:
Rather than exceeding the speed of light within a local reference frame, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel. Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.
Two more: Deflector dish
Not sure I see the issue with this one. We have dishes for transmitting all kinds of RF signals now, using them to transmit whatever is used to generate deflector shields doesn't seem to unlikely.
Already some thoughts on this: NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere:
... they suggested that by positioning a magnetic dipole shield at the Mars L1 Lagrange Point, an artificial magnetosphere could be formed that would encompass the entire planet, thus shielding it from solar wind and radiation. (see third graphic down)
Everything else feels like a bog standard Hollywood action movie with tons of CG.
Indeed and The Orville does pretty well on this front with a LOT smaller budget than STD. Shows stand and fall on good characters and story lines and I'll accept lower production quality if they have the former. And while it seems like many people here don't like Seth MacFarlane, The Orville seems like a more positive show about discovery while ST: Discovery seems more about war. I prefer the former to the latter.
Discovery and Orville are both takes on the "same thing, only different." And that's fine. There isn't a right way to do it, because what people want is basically impossible.
Perhaps not as simple as a right vs. wrong way to do it, but it seems like The Orville is a more positive show about discovery and ST: Discovery is more about war and that the ends justify the means (which a lot of people seem to support these days).
And I know the shows are named after the ships, but I can't help imagining that the name Discovery was chosen to make us think exploration, which the show doesn't actually seem to be about. I know I was disappointed. I've only seen the broadcast episode of STD, as I refuse to pay for CBS All Access to watch one show, so maybe I'm missing positive things that have developed since. I probably would have watched ST: Discovery, even with all it's "not Star Trek" sensibilities, but CBS lost me at "pay up". Oh well.
CBS refused to offer numbers, but did boast that Discovery's debut lead to the highest number of sign-ups in the history of its All Access service.
Said CBS spokesman Donald Trump.
The region is not fished because oceanic currents avoid the area and do not bring nutrients to it, making marine life scarce.
Of course the currents "avoid" the area, spacecraft routinely rain down on it.
Two-Factor Authentication Also At Risk
Three-Factor authentication. (Can't wait until this escalates ...)
Now I can stop worrying about my toaster getting hacked - no, the bread kind, not these.
And, you know, that's fine. If cameras don't deter bad behavior, so be it. But in that case, FFS, use the footage, both against criminals who otherwise benefit from the ambiguity the lack of footage would bring, and against bad cops.
Cameras aren't just about deterring bad behavior, they're also about being able to reliably deal with he said/she said situations where there are severe consequences for believing one party over the other.
I heard this story on NPR and at the end the head of the DC Police said much the same and offered a real-world example. They broadcast the audio ('cause it was radio) of a real encounter where a man was threatening his wife with a knife. After repeated calls to drop the knife and back away, he continued and was shot by the police. Afterward, some people questioned if the guy actually had a knife, but it was readily visible in the video. Cameras can "protect", perhaps after the fact, both civilians and police.
Biometrics are not more secure than passwords - they're less secure but sufficiently more convenient that you can convince people to use them.
A fingerprint is more convenient until the moment you get a blister (or some other damage) on your finger(s), then you're locked out. Seems unlikely? When I got a job at the NASA LaRC way, way back, I had to get fingerprinted, but couldn't because I had been working on my car that week and my hands and fingers were all beat up. I had to wait a week for them to clear up enough to get processed.