It's more complicated than 'blame the UAW'. The US auto industry is rotten clear through. Or at least GM. I don't work for an OEM supplier for the other 'big two' to have actual data to know, but it seems that way.
They won't be mandatory at first. But insurance will be more expensive for 'the disconnected' because their risks are greater. 'Don't you want to be safe?'
Be more concrete. Explain to us more about this network of many devices that all need to be so tightly synched. An itemized list of said devices will suffice.
GPS is already just about important enough to be Too Big To Fail. Doesn't mean it couldn't fail, of course, and there are probably people out there working on making it fail.
Most of those are instances of data that are real time and not dependent on a time stamp or any form of synchronization. The weather now is the weather now. Traffic reports are about the traffic now.
I paid $50 for Albion Online, got to play about a month of the Winter Alpha, will get to play a month of the Summer Alpha, the betas, and when it launches it will be free-to-play.
What is a PCB board? I know what PCBs are, in fact the company I work for made capacitors at an old facility and used PCBs and now it's a superfund site. But what is a PCB Board? Is it a PC Board that has PCB-bearing capacitors on it? Most of the PCB bearing capacitors that I know of are large metal-can capacitors and wouldn't mount on a PC Board well. I suppose if you put screw-mounting lugs right into the PC Board you could screw-mount a PCB bearing capacitor onto the PC Board.
There's zero fucking reason to put an HTPC in a crawl space.
If they get an inefficient enough system, it may self-heat enough to keep the humidity out of the enclosure. Build this thing with a Pentium 133. Better yet, quad Pentium 133s.
Social Security numbers shouldn't be considered confidential. It should be impossible for financial services to use a person's SSN for any purpose for which they assume it is private or confidential.
The government could neuter the whole issue by publishing everyone's SSN in a big digest. Names alongside SSNs.
The SSN was never intended as anything but an index for the Social Security System. That financial institutions have instrumented it into being a 'secret' that people use to secure 'credit' should be thrown right back in the face of the Financial Institutions.
It could start by a reasonable percentage of us agreeing to have our SSNs published. We would decree that the SSN was never intended to be 'secure' and that it is not our liability how our SSNs are used. If, say, 10% of the population agreed to be published in this way it would take down the ability of the credit industry to use SSNs for anything.
The biggest problem I have with mobile games compared to a nice 3DS is the lack of a physical controller. You can only knead flat glass so long before it gets really really tiring. There are third party controller 'solutions' and even gamer-oriented Android phones and tablet, but not a standard that all game publishers support, and not enough of the install-base has said physical controllers.
The payment model for F2P and P2Win games are another issue on the mobile platforms. It gets to the point where you search the app stores looking for games that are expensive, because it *might* finally mean a game with substantial content built into it. Which the free and 99 cent wonder games do NOT provide without nickel and diming the players for IAPs.
To save Apple. Apple is now flailing around. They have a big sack of money from their one really successful product (iPhone) and need something new. The Watch/Tablet/Legacy PC biz is subsidized. The iPod/iTunes business? You're kidding, right? That's so aught (2000's)
The deal with Windows 8 is, you get a 'Microsoft Account' that you use to log onto all your Windows 8 devices and computers. Microsoft has the password. You can't have a password on your machine that is local that Microsoft doesn't have. You can't change your password to anything you've used recently. All the usual 'LAN' password requirements, mandated, and your Windows machine won't work without them.
So with Biometrics tied into this, you'll have your Microsoft Account, you'll have to use it to authenticate on Windows products, and you won't be able to become de-linked from it, ever. You'll not be able to be anonymous on any Windows computer or device ever again.
Facebook and their 'Real Name' policy should be so lucky.
The way to 'defeat' Stingray is to talk about it. Incessantly and to all the people you know who don't necessarily read Slashdot. If you use Facebook, link articles like the ones in the OP above to your Facebook page.
Everybody who pays taxes is entitled to know as much as possible about Stingray. We can help that process along.
Microsoft doesn't push music/video in the Windows Store. There is some of it there, but it's not in-your-face marketed. Certainly not to the degree as Android/Itunes.
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Musk basically got rich as the huckster behind PayPal.
Yeah, I know. Real geek hero stuff. He's been busy spending all that loot ever since. He's a Paul Allen class kind of guy.
It's now 'butt job' because the fetishes have been updated.
It's more complicated than 'blame the UAW'. The US auto industry is rotten clear through. Or at least GM. I don't work for an OEM supplier for the other 'big two' to have actual data to know, but it seems that way.
They won't be mandatory at first. But insurance will be more expensive for 'the disconnected' because their risks are greater. 'Don't you want to be safe?'
Be more concrete. Explain to us more about this network of many devices that all need to be so tightly synched. An itemized list of said devices will suffice.
GPS is already just about important enough to be Too Big To Fail. Doesn't mean it couldn't fail, of course, and there are probably people out there working on making it fail.
Clearly for Google'sself driving car initiative to work, implants need to be widely implemented.
I just hope my 2006 Ford Ranger (a profoundly dumb car) remains street legal for it's whole usable life. I'm wishing for another decade at least.
Poptarts will come with a certificate of calibration right in the box. Readable by the toaster with RFID.
Most of those are instances of data that are real time and not dependent on a time stamp or any form of synchronization. The weather now is the weather now. Traffic reports are about the traffic now.
Binary attachments killed Usenet.
I paid $50 for Albion Online, got to play about a month of the Winter Alpha, will get to play a month of the Summer Alpha, the betas, and when it launches it will be free-to-play.
How the fuck can you be an "alumnus" of something THAT ISN'T EVEN RELEASED YET?
There are lots of Albion Online alums.
The only way to take the money out of politics is to eliminate taxes. Otherwise, there's lotsa money to spread around.
What is a PCB board? I know what PCBs are, in fact the company I work for made capacitors at an old facility and used PCBs and now it's a superfund site. But what is a PCB Board? Is it a PC Board that has PCB-bearing capacitors on it? Most of the PCB bearing capacitors that I know of are large metal-can capacitors and wouldn't mount on a PC Board well. I suppose if you put screw-mounting lugs right into the PC Board you could screw-mount a PCB bearing capacitor onto the PC Board.
There's zero fucking reason to put an HTPC in a crawl space.
If they get an inefficient enough system, it may self-heat enough to keep the humidity out of the enclosure. Build this thing with a Pentium 133. Better yet, quad Pentium 133s.
Social Security numbers shouldn't be considered confidential. It should be impossible for financial services to use a person's SSN for any purpose for which they assume it is private or confidential.
The government could neuter the whole issue by publishing everyone's SSN in a big digest. Names alongside SSNs.
The SSN was never intended as anything but an index for the Social Security System. That financial institutions have instrumented it into being a 'secret' that people use to secure 'credit' should be thrown right back in the face of the Financial Institutions.
It could start by a reasonable percentage of us agreeing to have our SSNs published. We would decree that the SSN was never intended to be 'secure' and that it is not our liability how our SSNs are used. If, say, 10% of the population agreed to be published in this way it would take down the ability of the credit industry to use SSNs for anything.
That's just for logging into your Slackware box.
You have budgets? Obama's pet legislature has run without a budget for almost his entire term in office.
The biggest problem I have with mobile games compared to a nice 3DS is the lack of a physical controller. You can only knead flat glass so long before it gets really really tiring. There are third party controller 'solutions' and even gamer-oriented Android phones and tablet, but not a standard that all game publishers support, and not enough of the install-base has said physical controllers.
The payment model for F2P and P2Win games are another issue on the mobile platforms. It gets to the point where you search the app stores looking for games that are expensive, because it *might* finally mean a game with substantial content built into it. Which the free and 99 cent wonder games do NOT provide without nickel and diming the players for IAPs.
To save Apple. Apple is now flailing around. They have a big sack of money from their one really successful product (iPhone) and need something new. The Watch/Tablet/Legacy PC biz is subsidized. The iPod/iTunes business? You're kidding, right? That's so aught (2000's)
The deal with Windows 8 is, you get a 'Microsoft Account' that you use to log onto all your Windows 8 devices and computers. Microsoft has the password. You can't have a password on your machine that is local that Microsoft doesn't have. You can't change your password to anything you've used recently. All the usual 'LAN' password requirements, mandated, and your Windows machine won't work without them.
So with Biometrics tied into this, you'll have your Microsoft Account, you'll have to use it to authenticate on Windows products, and you won't be able to become de-linked from it, ever. You'll not be able to be anonymous on any Windows computer or device ever again.
Facebook and their 'Real Name' policy should be so lucky.
The way to 'defeat' Stingray is to talk about it. Incessantly and to all the people you know who don't necessarily read Slashdot. If you use Facebook, link articles like the ones in the OP above to your Facebook page.
Everybody who pays taxes is entitled to know as much as possible about Stingray. We can help that process along.
PUT BACK THE START MENU.
Rumor has it, they just couldn't get a contract with the Rolling Stones for the Windows 8 Release Event.
The Stones are getting older and older all the time, too.
Microsoft doesn't push music/video in the Windows Store. There is some of it there, but it's not in-your-face marketed. Certainly not to the degree as Android/Itunes.
If you need to install third-party software to make the basic OS usable or presentable, then the OS makers have failed miserably.
Whoah! Linux is in real trouble, then. It's all third party software, all the way down.