...Once upon a time, the best and brightest of the engineering, math and science students didn't dream of working in Silicon Valley or Wall Street. They dreamed of NASA, JPL & NOAA. Academia and government service. The reward was working on interesting, important things rather than stock options and snack rooms. Maybe that thinking is starting to come back.
Even if you could trust America's commander-in-chief to deploy the military responsibly (and regardless which party you support, about 50% of the time you can't), it's naive to believe that autonomous killbots would not get out of control despite the best of intentions.
Whatever happened to those infinitely variable liquid lenses that were supposed to give us wide-angle to zoom adjustments with no extra thickness? About 10 years ago they were just "a couple years away" from market.
Have you ever even looked at the butterfly ballots? The names do not line up with the spots you have to punch to vote for that person (except for Bush). Even Pat Buchanan himself admitted that the votes he received in West Palm Beach were illegitimate.
Paper ballots can be "hacked" too. Remember the 2000 election with butteryfly ballots and hanging chads and cancelled recounts all ultimately decided by a Republican-controlled supreme court? The sad truth is that Democrats have to win by a wide margin because the Republicans will always find a way to "hack" any election that is close.
All of the election hacking so far has been phishing and other social engineering attacks, not OS attacks. Mac, Linux, etc are just as vulnerable to those attacks as Windows.
I have MAPs that I must follow, yes, but the actual sell at price, that can be whatever makes sense (even losing money on some items).
I suspect musical instrument/pro audio is one of the few retail areas where people still haggle. In most retail (especially on-line), the minimum advertised price is the minimum price, period.
If it comes from a plant it is by definition not milk.
By Definition? The number two definition of milk from Websters is "a liquid resembling milk in appearance: such as a) the latex of a plant b) the contents of an unripe kernel of grain."
Go on Google Play and download Firefox or Opera. Problem solved. Why should Google be punished for wanting users to have a consistent UX rather than whatever crapware manufacturers and/or carrier want to load up your phone with?
A PC memory I would erase, and spend time writing 1's, 0's, and then random #'s to it, but the other hardware I really wouldn't care about.
Also, given that flash cards have a limited number of erase/write cycles, doing a proper erase would reduce the lifespan of the card significantly (at least compared to a hard drive).
Security by Obscurity is just another name for no security. Forcing the banks to be transparent about their processes at least makes it possible that problems can be found before they're exploited.
Other research confirms that a 20 percent improvement in efficiencies of the personal transportation system, would generate a five percent increase in household incomes.
Yeah, right. Increasing efficiency no longer gets passed on to employee incomes, it just gets captured as profit by the 1%.
Europeans voted for more government, and this is what more government looks like. It's rather hard to pity them.
This is what government controlled by corporate interests looks like. Big or small, left or right; doesn't matter as long as corporations are pulling the strings.
Don't Worry. Just because people aren't watching TV, doesn't mean they're doing anything useful or god forbid actually learning something. They've just replaced one passive, intellectually hollow activity for another. Soap operas and sitcoms have been replaced by social media and Amazon shopping.
Agreed. Facetime as it currently stands, is of little use non-Apple users as there are plenty of similar alternatives. The original Facetime which does not require a centralized server however would be quite nice for many reasons (including making it harder for governments/corporations to snoop). VirnetX probably has less than 10 years left on their patent anyway, but if Apple teamed up with Google and Microsoft (VirnetX has also sued Skype and Cisco by the way), perhaps they could get this bogus patent invalidated.
What kind of idiot thinks that insulting someone is good way to start negotiations? When you buy a car, do you start by telling the salesman how fat his mother is?
Sim locking forces a user to stay on their network on and is anti competitive. There is nothing magical about their network.
There is nothing magical about their OS build either, other than that it is bundled with crap-ware and may never get a security update. Also, if having one company control your data service, hardware AND software isn't anti-competitive, I don't know what is. Monopolies can be vertical as well as horizontal.
it lost few points for performance (which, AV-Test measures on the basis of how a security suite slows applications and websites on the test computer); and usability (which counts false-positives or instances where AV wrongly identifies a file as malicious.) . . . . . . But Microsoft wants enterprise customers to know that Windows Defender is only half the picture, given the option for customers to also deploy Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection's (ATP) "stack components"
I have a hard time believing that adding additional components with additional functionality will speed up performance. Experience tells me the opposite is far more likely.
But that social media platform can block, hellban, censor and terminate the accounts of anyone, including the President, over arbitrarily decided, biased terms of service.
If that were true, Trump's twitter account would already be shut down. He has violated the terms of service many times (such as linking to hate groups), but he has an exemption.
virtually everyone has made a success of it who's tried, except them.
Really? You have an interesting definition of success. Apple's Newton was definitely a failure. Palm succeeded for a while but rested on their laurels. Ditto for Blackberry (does anyone even remember the Playbook?). Was the Atari Portfolio any more successful than the Toshiba Libretto? Sharp Zaurus? HP TouchPad? Casio? Psion? Nokia? ZEOS? OmniGo? Poqet? This market segment is littered with failures. The only 2 companies to consistently succeed (Apple and Google), do so only by pouring trainloads of R&D money into it. Google even developed 2 separate OSes (Chrome and Android) just so they'd be covered no matter which direction the market moved.
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...Once upon a time, the best and brightest of the engineering, math and science students didn't dream of working in Silicon Valley or Wall Street. They dreamed of NASA, JPL & NOAA. Academia and government service. The reward was working on interesting, important things rather than stock options and snack rooms. Maybe that thinking is starting to come back.
Even if you could trust America's commander-in-chief to deploy the military responsibly (and regardless which party you support, about 50% of the time you can't), it's naive to believe that autonomous killbots would not get out of control despite the best of intentions.
Whatever happened to those infinitely variable liquid lenses that were supposed to give us wide-angle to zoom adjustments with no extra thickness? About 10 years ago they were just "a couple years away" from market.
Insightful? Yes. Informative? Yes. But not funny. I stopped laughing at this clusterfuck long ago.
Yes, engineers instead of script kiddies.
Have you ever even looked at the butterfly ballots? The names do not line up with the spots you have to punch to vote for that person (except for Bush). Even Pat Buchanan himself admitted that the votes he received in West Palm Beach were illegitimate.
Paper ballots can be "hacked" too. Remember the 2000 election with butteryfly ballots and hanging chads and cancelled recounts all ultimately decided by a Republican-controlled supreme court? The sad truth is that Democrats have to win by a wide margin because the Republicans will always find a way to "hack" any election that is close.
All of the election hacking so far has been phishing and other social engineering attacks, not OS attacks. Mac, Linux, etc are just as vulnerable to those attacks as Windows.
I suspect musical instrument/pro audio is one of the few retail areas where people still haggle. In most retail (especially on-line), the minimum advertised price is the minimum price, period.
By Definition? The number two definition of milk from Websters is "a liquid resembling milk in appearance: such as a) the latex of a plant b) the contents of an unripe kernel of grain."
Go on Google Play and download Firefox or Opera. Problem solved. Why should Google be punished for wanting users to have a consistent UX rather than whatever crapware manufacturers and/or carrier want to load up your phone with?
Also, given that flash cards have a limited number of erase/write cycles, doing a proper erase would reduce the lifespan of the card significantly (at least compared to a hard drive).
Security by Obscurity is just another name for no security. Forcing the banks to be transparent about their processes at least makes it possible that problems can be found before they're exploited.
Yeah, right. Increasing efficiency no longer gets passed on to employee incomes, it just gets captured as profit by the 1%.
This is what government controlled by corporate interests looks like. Big or small, left or right; doesn't matter as long as corporations are pulling the strings.
US law enforcement types love to blame the messenger rather than take responsibility for their mistakes.
Apples recent iPad commercial says it all.
Don't Worry. Just because people aren't watching TV, doesn't mean they're doing anything useful or god forbid actually learning something. They've just replaced one passive, intellectually hollow activity for another. Soap operas and sitcoms have been replaced by social media and Amazon shopping.
Agreed. Facetime as it currently stands, is of little use non-Apple users as there are plenty of similar alternatives. The original Facetime which does not require a centralized server however would be quite nice for many reasons (including making it harder for governments/corporations to snoop). VirnetX probably has less than 10 years left on their patent anyway, but if Apple teamed up with Google and Microsoft (VirnetX has also sued Skype and Cisco by the way), perhaps they could get this bogus patent invalidated.
You mean like the the 5 trillion dollars per year that is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry?
What kind of idiot thinks that insulting someone is good way to start negotiations? When you buy a car, do you start by telling the salesman how fat his mother is?
There is nothing magical about their OS build either, other than that it is bundled with crap-ware and may never get a security update. Also, if having one company control your data service, hardware AND software isn't anti-competitive, I don't know what is. Monopolies can be vertical as well as horizontal.
I have a hard time believing that adding additional components with additional functionality will speed up performance. Experience tells me the opposite is far more likely.
If that were true, Trump's twitter account would already be shut down. He has violated the terms of service many times (such as linking to hate groups), but he has an exemption.
Really? You have an interesting definition of success. Apple's Newton was definitely a failure. Palm succeeded for a while but rested on their laurels. Ditto for Blackberry (does anyone even remember the Playbook?). Was the Atari Portfolio any more successful than the Toshiba Libretto? Sharp Zaurus? HP TouchPad? Casio? Psion? Nokia? ZEOS? OmniGo? Poqet? This market segment is littered with failures. The only 2 companies to consistently succeed (Apple and Google), do so only by pouring trainloads of R&D money into it. Google even developed 2 separate OSes (Chrome and Android) just so they'd be covered no matter which direction the market moved.