This is Newsweek. Not exactly a tech-heavy publication. So rather than going into the weeds, they kept the article simple for the non technically minded.
Just because you can't "See" a player, doesn't mean they're undetectable. Footsteps and reloading sounds (for instance) need to be sent to the client to give the player an idea of where a hidden enemy might be, and that data can be hijacked and displayed in a visual manner to give X-Ray like abilities. And while this isn't what was happening in this case (In this case, they were using a second account, logged in through a VPN to hide the duplicate IP, and playing as a spectator, with the spectator data being relayed to an overlay on their playfield) it's another example of how difficult these things can be to detect.
Yup. The PC was modular. And so was the Amiga. Sidecar expansion, trapdoor expansion, and clockport expansions were all available for the A500. Or you'd buy a big box Amiga (the A1000, A1500 or A2000), which took both ISA (just like a PC) and Zorro cards, could have an x86 co-processor for running DOS or Windows.
I'm more than willing to bet the recording was for the Journalists' own notes, and not meant to be released. It obviously wasn't recorded in a studio, probably on a phone in a pocket or something.
Who needs a mod? FF has "First Party Isolation" (Not enabled by default, use the about:config setting "security.firstparty.isolate" to enable it), which doesn't set or send cookies for any third party items loaded on a page. They can load their tracking images and the like just fine, but there's no id attached to them, so every time is a "different user".
FireFox inherited a small security update from the Tor project called "First Party Isolation". It's in newer versions of FF, but isn't turned on by default as it can break some authentication systems.
What it does, is only allow cookies to be sent and received by the site in the page's URL. So, for instance, while visiting YouTube.com, images and the like from google.com can load, but have no cookies attached, and do not receive those cookies.
To enable it, go to about:config and find "privacy.firstparty.isolate". Set it to true and restart the browser, and enjoy surfing the web knowing that you're not being tracked from site to site.
That is what was happening - Loading the tracking code was delaying the initial paint of the site. FF changed it so that the tracking code was loaded "as needed" and not delaying the initial load and paint of the site.
Here you go: https://github.com/RasPlex/Ope... Pre-compiled packages for Debian Jessie (x86 & x64), Ubuntu Trusty (x64), Ubuntu Xenial (x86 & x64) and Ubuntu Yakkety (x86 & x64), along with RasPlex for Raspberry Pi v1 and v2, embedded builds for several architectures, and installers for Windows and MacOS.
Also, MythTV (by default) uses an Edit List, which is a separate piece of data that contains "commercial start" and "commercial end" flags, so when it's playing and it encounters the start, it'll jump to the end (or you can define remote buttons for "Skip to next commercial flag"). If it's been misflagged, you can hit a button and jump back to watch whatever it classified, as it's not removed from the file. This is seriously something that Plex should look into. And also, as per a comment above, there's a user script you can run that will flip the classification for the "Big Game", so you can watch all those great commercials without the pesky sportsball getting in the way.
Not really. For Bitcoin using GPUs is no longer fast or efficient enough, you need customized ASICs to do the work. For other, more complex (and/or ASIC-resistant) cryptocurrencies, however, that is a good choice.
General Motors receives $3.58 Billion in subsidies every year.
Royal Dutch Shell receives $2.04 Billion in subsidies every year
Blue Origin received $3.7 Million in subsidies
On the other hand, from the text of the summary:
[...]Had received $4.9 billion in government subsidies [by 2015]. By now, Musk's various ventures have sucked well over $5 billion from government coffers.
So, in the 2 year gap between the 2015 article and now, Musk had received a further $10 Million ($0.1 Billion) in subsidies. That's really not all that much.
The government rebates for buyers of EVs (which goes to the buyers, not Tesla) goes to all buyers of any EVs. Chevy Bolt, Mitsubishi iMIEV, BMW i3, you name it. It's also a fraction of the rebates received for buying larger vehicles.
The AES-NI support is why I recommended the 5600 series Xeon (which has it) over the 5500 (which doesn't).
Alternatively, you could grab one of these which is new, and would also do the job.
It's a fantastic router platform, supports oodles of hardware, and can run on cheap machines. For instance: Start here use a 5600 series Xeon and the smallest amount of RAM and HDD you can get, and you've got a killer router capable of handling much greater than gigabit traffic. If you need Wireless as well, you can either add a low-profile 802.11 card, or buy a cheap home "router" and run it in Access Point only mode, which will put it behind your firewall (and thus safe from internet-based hack attacks), rather than it being your firewall and vulnerable.
Unfortunately, Zillow aren't going for Wagner under the terms of copyright infringement, they're going for them under the auspices of "Breaking the Terms of Service" of Zillow's website, as copying the photos from their site is explicitly called out as not allowed. However, as it is a "by using this service you agree to..." style EULA, which is shaky legal ground at the best of times, this would be an interesting challenge.
In other words, they're trying to forestall the fact that copyright law allows it by challenging it with contract law instead.
It's "A startup backed by the Japanese automaker" (From the first line of the f**king summary). The same way Morgan Stanley is maintaining a short-message based social network (Morgan Stanley is a backer of Twitter).
Rogers include a subscription for one of the services (Spotify, Showmi, NHL GameCenter - your choice) with your pre-paid monthly fee. You still have to pay for the bandwidth it uses. Though I believe they own Shomi and the rights to NHL GameCenter, so that may be considered part of their network.
This is the same argument videotron is using... it's our OWN streaming service, from our OWN servers, over our OWN network. It really doesn't work well when the ISP is also the content provider (i.e. vertical integration).
Except it's not. From TFA (emphasis mine):
Videotron launched a feature in August of that year, enabling customers to stream music from services such as Spotify and Google Play Music without it counting against a monthly data cap
So, they're external services (Spotify and Google Play Music). If it was a internally hosted service, it wouldn't be an issue.
No, because the IPTV is an Intranet service, on the ISP-local network, not an Internet service, hosted on the wider internet. So when you access your Bell IPTV, it doesn't go to the internet and doesn't add to your internet usage.
As much as your vitriol is deserved, this is all about CANADIAN Internet, not USA. Though it does have to be said, Canadian broadband is even worse than the US, but at least the CRTC is actually upholding their charter and doing what they're supposed to, rather than the FCCs... approach. As for CNN.com taking 10-14 seconds to render, that could be related to slow DNS resolvers (try switching to Googles or OpenDNSs servers), Javascript issues (browser plugins blocking events), or just a slow/overloaded computer. Try using the network console (inside Developer tools in any modern browser) to see where the delays are. On my system, it seems the homepage takes over a second to download, and the main page CSS file is over 1.3MB (Which is just stupid), along with a crapton of js files that seem to take a long time to process.
Having a preferential rate for one particular internet service over another (or, for that matter, having an exception for certain paid-for services) is the exact opposite of net neutrality. And from a network engineering standpoint, it means ensuring you have adequate bandwidth to upstream hosts. The idea of the internet is meant to be that it's fault tolerant and multi-homed, so if a route is congested or at capacity, packets can be routed through another path to get to the same host, albeit at a slightly longer hop path.
Started with a C=16/+4, in a bundle from Toys 'R Us (with a 1541 floppy drive, and an MPS801 printer to go with the built-in word processing "suite")
"Upgraded" to a C=64, with a mouse and GEOS.
Then moved to an Amiga 1200, which was steadily upgraded over time, including a 250MB 2.5" hard-drive, and a 1200-baud modem for BBS', followed by a 14.4k modem when the internet started to take off.
Unfortunately, Commodore (the company) died, so I side-graded to a Pentium 1, and joined the PC treadmill from there.
Well, most (if not all) Android phones by default (since Marshmallow, I believe) default to using any USB connection plugged in for charging only, and requiring you to unlock the phone to change that option each time. And before that (since at least Jellybean, I believe) don't expose filesystem data until the device is unlocked. So that gets you some modicum of safety. And with the device encryption turned on, it won't even get into the OS without an unlock code. So provided they're not going to physically dismantle the phone, or other such destructive measures, your data is pretty safe. Apple... well... not so much.
Of course, whether the courier "loses" the package en route is another matter entirely.
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This is Newsweek. Not exactly a tech-heavy publication. So rather than going into the weeds, they kept the article simple for the non technically minded.
Just because you can't "See" a player, doesn't mean they're undetectable. Footsteps and reloading sounds (for instance) need to be sent to the client to give the player an idea of where a hidden enemy might be, and that data can be hijacked and displayed in a visual manner to give X-Ray like abilities. And while this isn't what was happening in this case (In this case, they were using a second account, logged in through a VPN to hide the duplicate IP, and playing as a spectator, with the spectator data being relayed to an overlay on their playfield) it's another example of how difficult these things can be to detect.
Yup. The PC was modular. And so was the Amiga. Sidecar expansion, trapdoor expansion, and clockport expansions were all available for the A500. Or you'd buy a big box Amiga (the A1000, A1500 or A2000), which took both ISA (just like a PC) and Zorro cards, could have an x86 co-processor for running DOS or Windows.
I think he meant "No Unlimited CELLPHONE plans in Canada", as that's what this whole thing was about.
I'm more than willing to bet the recording was for the Journalists' own notes, and not meant to be released. It obviously wasn't recorded in a studio, probably on a phone in a pocket or something.
Interplay sold the license way back in 2015, and a spiritual successor is in the works since then: https://www.brightlocker.com/g...
Who needs a mod? FF has "First Party Isolation" (Not enabled by default, use the about:config setting "security.firstparty.isolate" to enable it), which doesn't set or send cookies for any third party items loaded on a page. They can load their tracking images and the like just fine, but there's no id attached to them, so every time is a "different user".
FireFox inherited a small security update from the Tor project called "First Party Isolation". It's in newer versions of FF, but isn't turned on by default as it can break some authentication systems.
What it does, is only allow cookies to be sent and received by the site in the page's URL. So, for instance, while visiting YouTube.com, images and the like from google.com can load, but have no cookies attached, and do not receive those cookies.
To enable it, go to about:config and find "privacy.firstparty.isolate". Set it to true and restart the browser, and enjoy surfing the web knowing that you're not being tracked from site to site.
That is what was happening - Loading the tracking code was delaying the initial paint of the site. FF changed it so that the tracking code was loaded "as needed" and not delaying the initial load and paint of the site.
Here you go: https://github.com/RasPlex/Ope... Pre-compiled packages for Debian Jessie (x86 & x64), Ubuntu Trusty (x64), Ubuntu Xenial (x86 & x64) and Ubuntu Yakkety (x86 & x64), along with RasPlex for Raspberry Pi v1 and v2, embedded builds for several architectures, and installers for Windows and MacOS.
Also, MythTV (by default) uses an Edit List, which is a separate piece of data that contains "commercial start" and "commercial end" flags, so when it's playing and it encounters the start, it'll jump to the end (or you can define remote buttons for "Skip to next commercial flag"). If it's been misflagged, you can hit a button and jump back to watch whatever it classified, as it's not removed from the file. This is seriously something that Plex should look into. And also, as per a comment above, there's a user script you can run that will flip the classification for the "Big Game", so you can watch all those great commercials without the pesky sportsball getting in the way.
Not really. For Bitcoin using GPUs is no longer fast or efficient enough, you need customized ASICs to do the work. For other, more complex (and/or ASIC-resistant) cryptocurrencies, however, that is a good choice.
Okay, so let's break this down.
On the other hand, from the text of the summary:
So, in the 2 year gap between the 2015 article and now, Musk had received a further $10 Million ($0.1 Billion) in subsidies. That's really not all that much.
The government rebates for buyers of EVs (which goes to the buyers, not Tesla) goes to all buyers of any EVs. Chevy Bolt, Mitsubishi iMIEV, BMW i3, you name it. It's also a fraction of the rebates received for buying larger vehicles.
The AES-NI support is why I recommended the 5600 series Xeon (which has it) over the 5500 (which doesn't). Alternatively, you could grab one of these which is new, and would also do the job.
It's a fantastic router platform, supports oodles of hardware, and can run on cheap machines. For instance: Start here use a 5600 series Xeon and the smallest amount of RAM and HDD you can get, and you've got a killer router capable of handling much greater than gigabit traffic. If you need Wireless as well, you can either add a low-profile 802.11 card, or buy a cheap home "router" and run it in Access Point only mode, which will put it behind your firewall (and thus safe from internet-based hack attacks), rather than it being your firewall and vulnerable.
In other words, they're trying to forestall the fact that copyright law allows it by challenging it with contract law instead.
It's "A startup backed by the Japanese automaker" (From the first line of the f**king summary). The same way Morgan Stanley is maintaining a short-message based social network (Morgan Stanley is a backer of Twitter).
Rogers include a subscription for one of the services (Spotify, Showmi, NHL GameCenter - your choice) with your pre-paid monthly fee. You still have to pay for the bandwidth it uses. Though I believe they own Shomi and the rights to NHL GameCenter, so that may be considered part of their network.
This is the same argument videotron is using ... it's our OWN streaming service, from our OWN servers, over our OWN network. It really doesn't work well when the ISP is also the content provider (i.e. vertical integration).
Except it's not. From TFA (emphasis mine):
Videotron launched a feature in August of that year, enabling customers to stream music from services such as Spotify and Google Play Music without it counting against a monthly data cap
So, they're external services (Spotify and Google Play Music). If it was a internally hosted service, it wouldn't be an issue.
No, because the IPTV is an Intranet service, on the ISP-local network, not an Internet service, hosted on the wider internet. So when you access your Bell IPTV, it doesn't go to the internet and doesn't add to your internet usage.
As much as your vitriol is deserved, this is all about CANADIAN Internet, not USA. Though it does have to be said, Canadian broadband is even worse than the US, but at least the CRTC is actually upholding their charter and doing what they're supposed to, rather than the FCCs... approach. As for CNN.com taking 10-14 seconds to render, that could be related to slow DNS resolvers (try switching to Googles or OpenDNSs servers), Javascript issues (browser plugins blocking events), or just a slow/overloaded computer. Try using the network console (inside Developer tools in any modern browser) to see where the delays are. On my system, it seems the homepage takes over a second to download, and the main page CSS file is over 1.3MB (Which is just stupid), along with a crapton of js files that seem to take a long time to process.
Having a preferential rate for one particular internet service over another (or, for that matter, having an exception for certain paid-for services) is the exact opposite of net neutrality. And from a network engineering standpoint, it means ensuring you have adequate bandwidth to upstream hosts. The idea of the internet is meant to be that it's fault tolerant and multi-homed, so if a route is congested or at capacity, packets can be routed through another path to get to the same host, albeit at a slightly longer hop path.
Started with a C=16/+4, in a bundle from Toys 'R Us (with a 1541 floppy drive, and an MPS801 printer to go with the built-in word processing "suite")
"Upgraded" to a C=64, with a mouse and GEOS.
Then moved to an Amiga 1200, which was steadily upgraded over time, including a 250MB 2.5" hard-drive, and a 1200-baud modem for BBS', followed by a 14.4k modem when the internet started to take off.
Unfortunately, Commodore (the company) died, so I side-graded to a Pentium 1, and joined the PC treadmill from there.
Opening VIM is the easy part. If you can successfully CLOSE VIM afterwards, that's the passing point.
Well, most (if not all) Android phones by default (since Marshmallow, I believe) default to using any USB connection plugged in for charging only, and requiring you to unlock the phone to change that option each time. And before that (since at least Jellybean, I believe) don't expose filesystem data until the device is unlocked. So that gets you some modicum of safety. And with the device encryption turned on, it won't even get into the OS without an unlock code. So provided they're not going to physically dismantle the phone, or other such destructive measures, your data is pretty safe. Apple... well... not so much.
Of course, whether the courier "loses" the package en route is another matter entirely.