And as far as I know, their winnings are not denied for counting cards.
Instead, the casino just bans you. In Nevada a casino can ban you for any (or no) reason. So if they think you are counting they just tell you your business isn't welcome here anymore. You get to cash out what you have but you must leave and not come back.
However, gambling to your best ability is not illegal, however using an assistive device is. You can be prosecuted and your money taken for using a computer to help you count cards.
In Atlantic City, it is not legal to ban you for arbitrary reasons, so the casinos take other anti-counting measures, most notably continuous shuffling machines. With these, literally any card not on the table at the moment could come up next (instead of those also in the used pile), so the odds what could come as the next card never change enough to take advantage of through counting.
I do not know the legality of assistive devices in Atlantic City, I suspect they are illegal there too.
These people are all just doing replay attacks (due to the rolling code systems used), so if you turn off your transmitter, they'll never find the way into your car.
That's really weak. That's barely a security hole at all. Someone has to be near me to have a system to talk to my car key?
Also, the explanation article isn't an explanation at all, it talks about tire pressure monitoring systems and how to spoof readings from those to the dash. It also makes the mistake of saying that the TREAD Act requires you have a wireless tire pressure monitoring system. That's not true at all, the requirements for tire pressure monitoring can be done completely passively by monitoring the effective circumference of the tire (rotation speed) and is done so in many makes.
A cheap linux box on an Intel Atom can do most of these things on 25W of power, the PS3 takes about 100W (my early one takes much more). And you can get the Intel Atom machine for about the same price as a PS3 and it'll work better because it has more RAM.
Neither the cheap Atom or PS3 can do #2. The PS3 doesn't have 3 ethernet ports.
You can output SACD stereo and multi-channel in 176KHz/24-bit over HDMI. You can output SACD stereo over optical also. The only change is you can't have multichannel output converted to DTS over optical, which if you are really using SACD for quality, you didn't want to use anyway.
I realize that the format still exists. And I also realize that talking about "how many titles" are available should really be phrased "how few titles" are available.
I agree the SACD feature never worked perfectly. If you're serious about SACD, a PS3 is a poor choice for several reasons. Get a real SACD player, it'll work better and you can even get DSD direct output.
Again, if you feel SACD was degraded with a firmware update, then THIS IS NOTHING LIKE HOW BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY WAS TREATED. Backward compatibility was not removed at any point. If your PS3 had it before, it has it now. Mine still has full PS2 BC, with firmware 3.55. I just booted up SSX Tricky (PS2 game) last week.
Calling Other OS (removal), SACD (still there, one feature removed) and BC (not altered at all) to be all the same so you can call this a recurring pattern is quite a stretch.
We're talking about a zero day exploit not a zero-day release.
With a zero-day exploit it means you had zero days of warning to patch the flaw before an exploit was spotted in the wild. So basically it means someone out there found this bug on their own and was using it for their own nefarious means before the good guys even knew about it the existence of the bug.
Not every exploit is a zero-day one, but for some reason they are all called zero-day exploits now.
This one doesn't seem like a zero-day exploit since the bug was found 20 days before there was any known exploit.
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SACD was not removed. It works and it works the same as it ever did. And there's no reason to think it won't work the same long-term as it has so far.
It's not a bait and switch if you simply didn't get a feature because the device you bought never had it.
No one uses SACD anyway. It's the height of hyperbole to try to make a mountain out of this molehill.
China bought a number, with an agreement for Airbus to then build a number in China and not long after that the Chinese companies will have what they need from their relationship with Airbus and will then instead just build their own planes without Airbus making a cent.
Its unclear why Airbus made this deal with China. Could it be just shortsightedness?
I find it interesting that the people placing the HITs have to decide whether the work done is good quality and then decide to pay or not. So that means for each tiny job you farm out, you have to do your own tiny bit of make work to decide whether to pay or not. Can you farm this out on the turk too? If not, maybe there's a market for a service that let's you do so...
I'm trying to find a way to read what you just wrote in a way that it makes it actually a slam dunk condemnation of this woman. But I cannot.
How does this accusation make her trash? What if he really did do it on purpose? Given I can't rule that out, I can't accuse her of making stuff up either, at least not in good conscience.
Forget point of sales. There enough cell phones that have USB to more than make up for the subtraction of PCs used as point of sales devices.
You're crazy if you think corporations don't use USB. They don't use mice?
You're off your rocker.
It seems a bit pointless to lump Apple sales in with segments where Apple is not actively involved in, if at all.
I'm not lumping Apple sales in, I'm splitting them out. I'm pointing out they account for only a small number of the devices with ports out there. And furthermore you still ignore my point about devices being made only for Mac costing a lot more. Ever bought a Mac video card? They cost far more than PC video cards, even though they use the same interface (PCIe). Now imagine what happens when even the interface changes. Compare the price of a VGA or DVI monitor versus a DisplayPort one.
And software? Who is talking about software. Was I talking about software when I mentioned the USB devices I have plugged into my PS3? You can't load your own software onto a PS3, and yet it still uses USB. Software is not part of my point at all.
Peripheral devices are created for the global marketplace not the US.
If I look at the total market for addons, Apple actually gets smaller. There are a lot of ports (especially USB) on devices out there that aren't PCs at all. I currently have a USB headset, steering wheel and webcam plugged into my PS3. And I didn't even count the USB memory key or Rock Band guitars.
Having a port that only appears on a small number of devices, even 12% of the US PC market, will still lead to a reduced number of devices. And as I said, the fact that these ports only appear on expensive devices will mean the peripherals will be priced higher, making the standard even less attractive to customers.
So say Light Peak comes to Macs first. The few peripherals that are made for this 10% of the market, how much are they going to cost? Well, you can only sell to a few people and those people already showed a propensity to buy expensive computers. On top of this, the costs of an optical interface are high.
So what do you think the companies will charge? They'll charge 3x what they do for anything else, just like with every other Mac-specific interface.
And then other PC companies will have a choice, put on Light Peak, with its expensive interface and expensive peripherals, or add USB 3.0, which accepts plenty of cheap devices people already have. What do you think these companies are going to choose? It's going to be Firewire versus USB 2.0 all over again.
And before you think Intel-backing means automatic success, Intel backed RDRAM, FB-DIMMS, Itanium and I2O.
This is fixable, you already are not allowed to burn bunker fuel in the "Diesel death zone" near LA and San Diego. And CARB has plans to extend the restrictions further.
Just get a USB or Firewire audio interface for recording audio. Many of them have better quality than internal cards anyway. There's absolutely no need to get a card.
He isn't claiming China is NOT corrupt but that unlike the US, it is doing things about it. Like executions.
No he isn't:
corruption has been far less than I've seen in the US
He directly is saying that corruption is less than in the US.
China has executed a lot of people, but it is not fixing the corruption.
The clear air during the olympic games. Could never have happened like that in the US.
The government shut down the entire area for 30 days. And the air still wasn't clean, it just was transparent. China has plenty of "clear air days" where the pollution is still high.
They shut down a huge section of the country. They even banned private cars from the roads (of course, many drivers bribed their way back onto the roads). And it rained and carried some of the particulates out of the air. And the air was still dirty.
What is there to brag about? The US doesn't need to shut down portions of the country for 30 days to get the air merely to filthy.
Don't pat yourself on the back because your system of corruption is different.
I'm not. I'm patting myself on the back because our corruption is much, much lower. And again, it isn't just Americans who say so.
Again, watch China Blue. There is no comparison to this in the US. Even the biggest factories still don't conform to safety standards, and they the ones who most need to because they actually might be investigated and pressure applied when they make international news for their transgressions. And that's nothing compared to the small factories.
And that's just the factories. It is rampant at the low levels and only tapers off at the very top. And I'm not even getting into Southern China where it's even more lawless. Want to talk about illegal coal mines?
The Chinese have a saying "The mountains are high and the Emperor is very far away". All you need is local buy-in (which bribes help with) and you can get away with nearly anything, until you garner the attention of the party. Then you may be executed, but apparently it's likely enough you'll get away with it that people don't stop trying.
I like China, it feels like freedom. You can make your own way, if you have the money to grease the wheels. But part of this is because of the high levels of corruption. You don't have to worry about the law that much, it's for others.
Basic freedoms have improved, corruption has been far less than I've seen in the US (their former food and drug regulator was found to be taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies, and subsequently executed), and the choking pollution has only been a recent occurrence because of the rapid growth.
You're insane. Corruption in China is rife. The reason there are pollution problems is because the companies don't adhere to the law and instead bribe their way out. This goes to safety issues too. Yes, there are laws to prevent unsafe conditions like buildings flopping over or towering infernos but they cannot be enforced either. And it goes all the way to the bottom, to worker safety, even work hours. Look at the problems in factories. There are laws to prevent sweatshop conditions, but they aren't enforced because the factory owners can work outside the law if they have the right connections.
China wants to clean up the problems but as long as the government cannot enforce the laws because of corruption at lower levels, the problems will still be around.
The working conditions are tragic and even illegal. But since the owner of the factory is an ex-police chief, there is no action taken against him.
I have no idea how you can say there is less corruption in China than in the US. Just ask Lee Kuan Yew (creator of modern Singapore), he says that the American system cannot be used the same in developing Asian countries because the conditions are different and corruption becomes a problem.
Look at the Immersion rumble lawsuit. MS settled with Immersion, part of the settlement was that Immersion was to turn their guns on Sony and then pay MS back with the money Immersion got from Sony.
So MS bolster's Immersions patents by settling and making them look valid, also giving Immersion money to sustain a lawsuit against Sony. MS gets to help crimp Sony's business and help keep out other companies from the gaming market without looking like a patent troll themselves. Well, until the truth leaks out.
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They also have 6RD.
All you need to do is turn it on. And if you have certain base stations, it is on by default.
http://comcast6.net/
And as far as I know, their winnings are not denied for counting cards.
Instead, the casino just bans you. In Nevada a casino can ban you for any (or no) reason. So if they think you are counting they just tell you your business isn't welcome here anymore. You get to cash out what you have but you must leave and not come back.
However, gambling to your best ability is not illegal, however using an assistive device is. You can be prosecuted and your money taken for using a computer to help you count cards.
In Atlantic City, it is not legal to ban you for arbitrary reasons, so the casinos take other anti-counting measures, most notably continuous shuffling machines. With these, literally any card not on the table at the moment could come up next (instead of those also in the used pile), so the odds what could come as the next card never change enough to take advantage of through counting.
I do not know the legality of assistive devices in Atlantic City, I suspect they are illegal there too.
These people are all just doing replay attacks (due to the rolling code systems used), so if you turn off your transmitter, they'll never find the way into your car.
That's really weak. That's barely a security hole at all. Someone has to be near me to have a system to talk to my car key?
Also, the explanation article isn't an explanation at all, it talks about tire pressure monitoring systems and how to spoof readings from those to the dash. It also makes the mistake of saying that the TREAD Act requires you have a wireless tire pressure monitoring system. That's not true at all, the requirements for tire pressure monitoring can be done completely passively by monitoring the effective circumference of the tire (rotation speed) and is done so in many makes.
Why would you want it for any of these things?
A cheap linux box on an Intel Atom can do most of these things on 25W of power, the PS3 takes about 100W (my early one takes much more). And you can get the Intel Atom machine for about the same price as a PS3 and it'll work better because it has more RAM.
Neither the cheap Atom or PS3 can do #2. The PS3 doesn't have 3 ethernet ports.
You can output SACD stereo and multi-channel in 176KHz/24-bit over HDMI. You can output SACD stereo over optical also. The only change is you can't have multichannel output converted to DTS over optical, which if you are really using SACD for quality, you didn't want to use anyway.
I realize that the format still exists. And I also realize that talking about "how many titles" are available should really be phrased "how few titles" are available.
I agree the SACD feature never worked perfectly. If you're serious about SACD, a PS3 is a poor choice for several reasons. Get a real SACD player, it'll work better and you can even get DSD direct output.
Again, if you feel SACD was degraded with a firmware update, then THIS IS NOTHING LIKE HOW BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY WAS TREATED. Backward compatibility was not removed at any point. If your PS3 had it before, it has it now. Mine still has full PS2 BC, with firmware 3.55. I just booted up SSX Tricky (PS2 game) last week.
Calling Other OS (removal), SACD (still there, one feature removed) and BC (not altered at all) to be all the same so you can call this a recurring pattern is quite a stretch.
We're talking about a zero day exploit not a zero-day release.
With a zero-day exploit it means you had zero days of warning to patch the flaw before an exploit was spotted in the wild. So basically it means someone out there found this bug on their own and was using it for their own nefarious means before the good guys even knew about it the existence of the bug.
Not every exploit is a zero-day one, but for some reason they are all called zero-day exploits now.
This one doesn't seem like a zero-day exploit since the bug was found 20 days before there was any known exploit.
SACD was not removed. It works and it works the same as it ever did. And there's no reason to think it won't work the same long-term as it has so far.
It's not a bait and switch if you simply didn't get a feature because the device you bought never had it.
No one uses SACD anyway. It's the height of hyperbole to try to make a mountain out of this molehill.
Backwards compatibility was never removed from any PS3. If you had it before, you have it now.
I have a 1st gen PS3 and the latest firmware and I still have my near 100% PS2 BC.
You really should consider making posts based upon facts instead of vitriol.
China bought a number, with an agreement for Airbus to then build a number in China and not long after that the Chinese companies will have what they need from their relationship with Airbus and will then instead just build their own planes without Airbus making a cent.
Its unclear why Airbus made this deal with China. Could it be just shortsightedness?
It's years old now. You can get a faster netbook for the same price (less if you are careful).
And it only has 512MB of RAM
Seriously, The Linux isn't even worth caring about anymore.
I find it interesting that the people placing the HITs have to decide whether the work done is good quality and then decide to pay or not. So that means for each tiny job you farm out, you have to do your own tiny bit of make work to decide whether to pay or not. Can you farm this out on the turk too? If not, maybe there's a market for a service that let's you do so...
Doesn't work. It's still there after I select "only show up for notifications".
Did it work for you?
How do I get the icon out of the system tray?
I don't want an icon down there unless I am infected. How can I get MSE to do this?
I'm trying to find a way to read what you just wrote in a way that it makes it actually a slam dunk condemnation of this woman. But I cannot.
How does this accusation make her trash?
What if he really did do it on purpose? Given I can't rule that out, I can't accuse her of making stuff up either, at least not in good conscience.
Did you perhaps mistype yourself?
Forget point of sales. There enough cell phones that have USB to more than make up for the subtraction of PCs used as point of sales devices.
You're crazy if you think corporations don't use USB. They don't use mice?
You're off your rocker.
It seems a bit pointless to lump Apple sales in with segments where Apple is not actively involved in, if at all.
I'm not lumping Apple sales in, I'm splitting them out. I'm pointing out they account for only a small number of the devices with ports out there. And furthermore you still ignore my point about devices being made only for Mac costing a lot more. Ever bought a Mac video card? They cost far more than PC video cards, even though they use the same interface (PCIe). Now imagine what happens when even the interface changes. Compare the price of a VGA or DVI monitor versus a DisplayPort one.
And software? Who is talking about software. Was I talking about software when I mentioned the USB devices I have plugged into my PS3? You can't load your own software onto a PS3, and yet it still uses USB. Software is not part of my point at all.
Peripheral devices are created for the global marketplace not the US.
If I look at the total market for addons, Apple actually gets smaller. There are a lot of ports (especially USB) on devices out there that aren't PCs at all. I currently have a USB headset, steering wheel and webcam plugged into my PS3. And I didn't even count the USB memory key or Rock Band guitars.
Having a port that only appears on a small number of devices, even 12% of the US PC market, will still lead to a reduced number of devices. And as I said, the fact that these ports only appear on expensive devices will mean the peripherals will be priced higher, making the standard even less attractive to customers.
So say Light Peak comes to Macs first. The few peripherals that are made for this 10% of the market, how much are they going to cost? Well, you can only sell to a few people and those people already showed a propensity to buy expensive computers. On top of this, the costs of an optical interface are high.
So what do you think the companies will charge? They'll charge 3x what they do for anything else, just like with every other Mac-specific interface.
And then other PC companies will have a choice, put on Light Peak, with its expensive interface and expensive peripherals, or add USB 3.0, which accepts plenty of cheap devices people already have. What do you think these companies are going to choose? It's going to be Firewire versus USB 2.0 all over again.
And before you think Intel-backing means automatic success, Intel backed RDRAM, FB-DIMMS, Itanium and I2O.
If this is true, someone really doesn't get it.
The usefulness of a port is directly proportional to the number of things you can connect to it. Exclusivity means fewer devices available.
I'd much rather have USB 3.0 than any kind of exclusive port.
Isn't exclusive just another way of saying proprietary?
First of all, El Al is an airline, not an airport. You are confusing El Al with Ben Gurion airport.
El Al searches some people (they profile first so many proponents may be unaware of this) and they are arranging for full body scanners right now.
El Al flies very few flights. The US airlines have flown far more flights (with no hijackings) since 9/11 than El Al has in the last 50 years.
Like acid-rain forming sulfur dioxide.
This is fixable, you already are not allowed to burn bunker fuel in the "Diesel death zone" near LA and San Diego. And CARB has plans to extend the restrictions further.
Just get a USB or Firewire audio interface for recording audio. Many of them have better quality than internal cards anyway. There's absolutely no need to get a card.
He isn't claiming China is NOT corrupt but that unlike the US, it is doing things about it. Like executions.
No he isn't:
corruption has been far less than I've seen in the US
He directly is saying that corruption is less than in the US.
China has executed a lot of people, but it is not fixing the corruption.
The clear air during the olympic games. Could never have happened like that in the US.
The government shut down the entire area for 30 days. And the air still wasn't clean, it just was transparent. China has plenty of "clear air days" where the pollution is still high.
They shut down a huge section of the country. They even banned private cars from the roads (of course, many drivers bribed their way back onto the roads). And it rained and carried some of the particulates out of the air. And the air was still dirty.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/etc/090622-beijing-olympics-air-pollution-worse.html
What is there to brag about? The US doesn't need to shut down portions of the country for 30 days to get the air merely to filthy.
Don't pat yourself on the back because your system of corruption is different.
I'm not. I'm patting myself on the back because our corruption is much, much lower. And again, it isn't just Americans who say so.
Again, watch China Blue. There is no comparison to this in the US. Even the biggest factories still don't conform to safety standards, and they the ones who most need to because they actually might be investigated and pressure applied when they make international news for their transgressions. And that's nothing compared to the small factories.
And that's just the factories. It is rampant at the low levels and only tapers off at the very top. And I'm not even getting into Southern China where it's even more lawless. Want to talk about illegal coal mines?
The Chinese have a saying "The mountains are high and the Emperor is very far away". All you need is local buy-in (which bribes help with) and you can get away with nearly anything, until you garner the attention of the party. Then you may be executed, but apparently it's likely enough you'll get away with it that people don't stop trying.
I like China, it feels like freedom. You can make your own way, if you have the money to grease the wheels. But part of this is because of the high levels of corruption. You don't have to worry about the law that much, it's for others.
Basic freedoms have improved, corruption has been far less than I've seen in the US (their former food and drug regulator was found to be taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies, and subsequently executed), and the choking pollution has only been a recent occurrence because of the rapid growth.
You're insane. Corruption in China is rife. The reason there are pollution problems is because the companies don't adhere to the law and instead bribe their way out. This goes to safety issues too. Yes, there are laws to prevent unsafe conditions like buildings flopping over or towering infernos but they cannot be enforced either. And it goes all the way to the bottom, to worker safety, even work hours. Look at the problems in factories. There are laws to prevent sweatshop conditions, but they aren't enforced because the factory owners can work outside the law if they have the right connections.
China wants to clean up the problems but as long as the government cannot enforce the laws because of corruption at lower levels, the problems will still be around.
See China Blue.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/
The working conditions are tragic and even illegal. But since the owner of the factory is an ex-police chief, there is no action taken against him.
I have no idea how you can say there is less corruption in China than in the US. Just ask Lee Kuan Yew (creator of modern Singapore), he says that the American system cannot be used the same in developing Asian countries because the conditions are different and corruption becomes a problem.
Look at the Immersion rumble lawsuit. MS settled with Immersion, part of the settlement was that Immersion was to turn their guns on Sony and then pay MS back with the money Immersion got from Sony.
So MS bolster's Immersions patents by settling and making them look valid, also giving Immersion money to sustain a lawsuit against Sony. MS gets to help crimp Sony's business and help keep out other companies from the gaming market without looking like a patent troll themselves. Well, until the truth leaks out.
Short version: they're scum.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/147162.asp