Maybe a truly devastating fine of some ferocious amount will get people to think twice.
You really don't need to make randomly devastating fines. You need consistent reasonable fines. If most intersections had cameras that could catch people with a phone in their hand, and send them a $50-$100 fine, things would change rather quickly.
With a bit of arithmetic, you can easily deduce it must be at least 1st or 2nd.
Not quite. It is common that an accident has multiple "related" issues (alcohol related, speed related, driving related, weather related, seat belt related, poor car maintenance related, etc.). As such, you can not deduce it must be at least 1st or 2nd. In fact, you can absolutely assume it isn't 1st, because 1st would be "driving related". 100% of all driving accidents are driving related, and 100% preventable by not driving.
Netflix is only "controlling" because the content providers have it in their licensing agreement with Netflix. Things like region locks, and only allowing HD streaming to devices that support HDCP in every step of the chain is all in their licensing agreement with the content providers. It really is those guys you hate. Netflix tries to enforce those things because they are legally obligated to (or they don't get a license for much if any content at all).
I just Visual Studio 2019 Preview 4.2, took 27 seconds to load the IDE, and one of my projects, sync the source with the repository, load the extensions (Resharper, Live Share, Dev Analytics, Cloud Explorer, Azure Data Lake and Steam Analytics, etc), and verify all my NuGet packages were up to date, and then become idle. That with a game running in the background.
Granted, my home PC is pretty beefy, but work performs similarly on a lesser system (but still on a SSD).
Write endurance for the 983 ZET also falls short of the bar set by Intel's Optane SSDs, with 8.5 DWPD for the 480GB 983 ZET and 10 DWPD for the 960 GB model, while the Optane SSD debuted with a 30 DWPD rating that has since been increased to 60 DWPD.
And that is comparing Samsung's latest (released last month) SSD specifically designed to try and compete with Optane. In some respects it does good, and in others not so much. It's latency is 30us vs optane's 10us, and its write IOPS is pretty poor at 75K IOPS, vs 550k IOPS. But if all you do a read, and you read in a heavily loaded server, then it does well with 750k IOPS vs Optane's 575k IOPS. That isn't really a likely scenario for most workloads, and its write speed and latency differences will kill it.
Optane has a better price ($1299 vs $1999), lower latency, higher write IOPS in all scenarios, higher read IOPS in low queue depths, and higher endurance. Z-NAND has a read IOPS with high queue depths.
I've used both, and.Net (vb.net and C#) are very much a complete replacement and upgrade from VB6. For desktop applications, it is very similar. You have a form, you drop controls on it, you double click on the control and it hooks up the default event for that control, and drops you into where you can enter the code to run when that event fires.
You also get control (if you want it) to how to spawn the forms at start up, and yes, you can still get multidimensional array of database objects in ADODB, or datasets if you really want.
This isn't a civil offense in the US. I am not a lawyer, but I suspect the following applies: 18 U.S. Code 1030(a)(5)(A) and 18 U.S. Code 1030(a)(6)(A): https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
And linux doesn't even support NTFS 3.0 which is 20 years old (Yes, you can install a 3rd party driver like NTFS-3G, which will get you most of the way there), but you can install ext2 drivers in windows too, lol.
Word Binary Format 6 didn't even come out until 2015, so I'm guessing you are trying to open it in an older version of word that doesn't understand it.
Anybody's guess who would be responsible the moment that some states allow a truly driverless car. Will some hapless engineer be responsible? the person who assembled the car? The CEO? The person who hailed the car?
How about the person who ran out in front of a car? Would this be any different if the person ran out in front of a train?
Problem is that 8,000 people were royally screwed by this.
They were royally screwed by getting a letter? I can only assume you jumped to conclusions, and didn't read the article before you jumped on the sky is falling bandwagon. No one is literally (or figuratively) starving because they received a letter. They have up to ONE YEAR to respond to the letter before anything happens.
But yes, filing a GDPR review request would likely be a good idea.
How would you feel if your government accused you of fraud in an official letter ?
Like an American citizen. Last year 0.86% of all tax returns resulted in an audit.
This new system incorrectly flagged 0.80%. And they got a letter. I'm fairly certain that responding to the letter is both easier and faster than getting audited by the IRS in the US.
So they analyzed 1,000,000 claims, and detected 40,000 of those were fraudulent. Of which 8,000 were "incorrectly" marked as fraudulent. That sounds like a pretty decent first run to me. Unless you want to manually look through 1,000,000 claims, or pay a team to look them all over. This just reduced the cost to identify fraudulent claims by 25x.
Not perfect, no. But having a team analyze the 40,000 claims it kicked out is a heck of a lot cheaper than analyzing the 1,000,000 that went in.
There aren't weird bugs that are platform dependent between Node.JS on a Windows, Linux or ARM server.
Not sure what you are talking about there, but there was serious platform dependent bugs in the most commonly used grunt/gulp/npm libraries (those run on node.js) up until a couple years ago when I stopped using all of them. Just stupid oversights like permissions issues, filename conventions, filename case sensitivity issues, forward slash vs backslash, etc etc. Then you would get into the more serious architecture issues like the order of event notifications when files changes when you were looking for file changes. It wasn't just one way either, it was both ways. Mostly code that worked on linux just didn't work on windows (as most of the grunt/gulp/npm devs use linux) took a shortcut and used code that wasn't platform agnostic, but every once in a while I would see code that worked fine on windows, but wouldn't work on *nix.
If I had a Nest, I'd probably break out the dyke cutter and remove the microphone.
And I would laugh my ass off after you thoroughly destroy your nest thermostat because you failed to read the summary which is about the nest secure, which is a completely different product.
Because a lot of furnaces and almost all air conditioners and heat pump's efficiency changes based on the outside temperature. Because your home isn't 100% insulated, it also affects how much extra heating/cooling is going to be required to raise/drop the house temperature. Not rocket science.
If you wanted a stupid scheduling thermostat, then I suggest buying one of those. I didn't buy a nest thermostat so it could be just a stupid scheduling thermostat.
BTW, this article is on the Nest Secure, not the Nest Thermostat, so... Not sure why this was even brought up.
2. Yeah, that is probably why I never get blocked since I always have it running on my gaming machine and set to auto update.
3. If you are installing a game from CD/DVD, then you don't need internet (not sure why you are using steam for this except for maybe a consistent interface?). You install as normal, then you can add a shortcut to the game in steam so that it shows up in your library. I had notepad set up as a "game" at one time this way. As for "offline" mode, it's the first menu option "Steam", and the second option under that "Go offline...".
4. Not sure why this happened to you, as I've moved steam libraries many, many times and they were 500GB+, and I would have noticed it redownloading them.
5. Yeah, depending on the game, it might put your saved files there, but that is game dependent, just like the non-steam versions. I always back up my profile anyhow though. I like having my photos, shortcuts, favorates, etc moved with me to a new machine. Not that many would, but you can also have your profile roam with you (not really easy to set up, but doable), so that every machine you have then has your saved games, so you can play the game on any machine you want. Again, sort of neat.
Yes, your use cases are much different. About 20% of my gaming time is with others, and they are remote from me. I have a group of friends I've been playing with for 15+ years, and not a single one of us still lives in the same state anymore.
As for your kids being able to play on steam, yes, if they use the same windows login as you, then they could access your games. Still couldn't buy games though, as that would require your credit card info or paypal password to actually buy it. Although, not so sure on the in-game stuff as I don't have any games with in-game purchases. It's usually a DLC/Add-on, that that is actually done outside of the game itself, so you can't buy anything without your credit card information or paypal password. Unless you save your credit card info in steam, and even then they need to know your CVV I believe.
I'm not sure on the multiple steam accounts thing. I only game on 1 PC that is built for gaming.
As for the most of your rules, as far as I can see, steam doesn't break most of them. You can move games from one machine to another without reinstalling them, I've done it many times.
1. Nothing runs in the background when not playing the game. True, but half the time I have voice chats open while playing games, so I don't see much point in this and haven't cared in 10 years. The background processes are so minor it doesn't matter to me. 2. I don't think I've ever been blocked by steam from playing any of my games. Of course, this is just my experience, yours might be different. 3. Doesn't require internet. Steam doesn't require internet either. You can play in offline mode, but you need to periodically go back online and I'm not sure what the frequency is... a week I thought. Not a concern for me since I always play online anyhow, and I have my games set to auto-update automatically and limit it's bandwidth usage so no one in the house can even tell when it's updating. 4. I can play a game without having to install it after reinstalling OS. You don't have to reinstall steam games either. It's pretty simple to move them to another machine (or drive). 5. I can specify where it is installed and it doesn't hide files. You can specify where the games are installed, I typically choose C:\games, but they are then put into c:\games\steam\steamapps\common and all the games I install are there, unless I had a second drive, and then you can choose to install some of them there as well. I've done that in the past when I had a small OS drive and a large spinny disk. Now I just keep everything on my 1TB SSD, and I uninstall what I don't need. If I want the game back, I click install and it'll be on my machine in less than 10 minutes (for large games). Most games download and install in a couple minutes.
Not disagreeing with you, but my experiences are apparently very different, and my needs/wants are very different, so steam works great for me.
First, let me say that I actually like Steam, and the only games I have that aren't purchased there are because the game isn't offered for sale on Steam, but on some companies own private Steam-like service (origin, u-play, epic, etc).
That said...If you think there is more competition for purchasing games for the PC than there was before, you need to take your blinders off. For example, you can ONLY buy most EA games on origin, period. A few more are only available on epic. A few more are only available on u-play. That's not competition. Not like being able to buy your game from Amazon, Target, Walmart, GameStop, or 50 other stores.
Personally, I find the convenience of having my steam library available to me at all times far outweighs the benefits of the physical media. I like being able to uninstall a game to free up space, then 6 months later being able to reinstall it for a quick game or two without having to try and find the physical media and hope it's still readable. Or find an external bluray/dvd player to hook up so I can reinstall it since my PC doesn't have one built-in.
There are a sizable group of prisoners who are there for no other reason than possessing slightly too much of a particular plant or other substance. We're wasting a lot of money locking up people who could otherwise be paying taxes.
Because some of us travel, and would like to put 16+ hours of movies and tv shows on our phones so that we can watch them while travelling and that won't fit on a 32GB phone.
Airplane's WIFI is terrible (and expensive). Cellular again isn't an option at all on airplanes and really expensive if you are on a layover for a few hours.
If it's taxes, then I should get a say in what people study, since they are government employees
What other government agency that your taxes pay for do you actually get a say in what they do? None that I can think of.
I don't recall getting a say in what type of asphalt to lay when they redid the roads, because I wouldn't have chosen the craptastic one they currently use that wears out and needs to be redone every 3 years.
From what I understand, the issue is that some lenovo laptops were configured with 4GB of ram, and secure boot enabled. Unfortunately the IE fix triggered a bug in the secure boot code where it couldn't validate the entirety of the windows executables. It had really nothing to do with the IE fix other than it made the executable larger than before. Any change to any executable would have triggered the same effect.
But that is just what I've heard with very little actual technical information. For example the issue didn't affect lenovo laptops with 8GB of RAM or more, or had secure boot disabled. Likely there is a third piece missing that has some custom lenovo driver or BIOS issue that is also "buggy".
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Maybe a truly devastating fine of some ferocious amount will get people to think twice.
You really don't need to make randomly devastating fines. You need consistent reasonable fines. If most intersections had cameras that could catch people with a phone in their hand, and send them a $50-$100 fine, things would change rather quickly.
With a bit of arithmetic, you can easily deduce it must be at least 1st or 2nd.
Not quite. It is common that an accident has multiple "related" issues (alcohol related, speed related, driving related, weather related, seat belt related, poor car maintenance related, etc.). As such, you can not deduce it must be at least 1st or 2nd. In fact, you can absolutely assume it isn't 1st, because 1st would be "driving related". 100% of all driving accidents are driving related, and 100% preventable by not driving.
Netflix is only "controlling" because the content providers have it in their licensing agreement with Netflix. Things like region locks, and only allowing HD streaming to devices that support HDCP in every step of the chain is all in their licensing agreement with the content providers. It really is those guys you hate. Netflix tries to enforce those things because they are legally obligated to (or they don't get a license for much if any content at all).
I just Visual Studio 2019 Preview 4.2, took 27 seconds to load the IDE, and one of my projects, sync the source with the repository, load the extensions (Resharper, Live Share, Dev Analytics, Cloud Explorer, Azure Data Lake and Steam Analytics, etc), and verify all my NuGet packages were up to date, and then become idle. That with a game running in the background.
Granted, my home PC is pretty beefy, but work performs similarly on a lesser system (but still on a SSD).
One more:
https://www.anandtech.com/show...
Write endurance for the 983 ZET also falls short of the bar set by Intel's Optane SSDs, with 8.5 DWPD for the 480GB 983 ZET and 10 DWPD for the 960 GB model, while the Optane SSD debuted with a 30 DWPD rating that has since been increased to 60 DWPD.
And that is comparing Samsung's latest (released last month) SSD specifically designed to try and compete with Optane. In some respects it does good, and in others not so much. It's latency is 30us vs optane's 10us, and its write IOPS is pretty poor at 75K IOPS, vs 550k IOPS. But if all you do a read, and you read in a heavily loaded server, then it does well with 750k IOPS vs Optane's 575k IOPS. That isn't really a likely scenario for most workloads, and its write speed and latency differences will kill it.
Optane has a better price ($1299 vs $1999), lower latency, higher write IOPS in all scenarios, higher read IOPS in low queue depths, and higher endurance.
Z-NAND has a read IOPS with high queue depths.
I'd buy the Optane, hands down.
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk...
And a quick comparison:
https://www.samsung.com/semico... - 1200TBW
vs
https://www.intel.com/content/... - 17,520TBW
I've used both, and .Net (vb.net and C#) are very much a complete replacement and upgrade from VB6. For desktop applications, it is very similar. You have a form, you drop controls on it, you double click on the control and it hooks up the default event for that control, and drops you into where you can enter the code to run when that event fires.
You also get control (if you want it) to how to spawn the forms at start up, and yes, you can still get multidimensional array of database objects in ADODB, or datasets if you really want.
Not sure where you read that, but that is completely wrong.
This isn't a civil offense in the US. I am not a lawyer, but I suspect the following applies: 18 U.S. Code 1030(a)(5)(A) and 18 U.S. Code 1030(a)(6)(A): https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
And linux doesn't even support NTFS 3.0 which is 20 years old (Yes, you can install a 3rd party driver like NTFS-3G, which will get you most of the way there), but you can install ext2 drivers in windows too, lol.
Word Binary Format 6 didn't even come out until 2015, so I'm guessing you are trying to open it in an older version of word that doesn't understand it.
Anybody's guess who would be responsible the moment that some states allow a truly driverless car. Will some hapless engineer be responsible? the person who assembled the car? The CEO? The person who hailed the car?
How about the person who ran out in front of a car? Would this be any different if the person ran out in front of a train?
Problem is that 8,000 people were royally screwed by this.
They were royally screwed by getting a letter? I can only assume you jumped to conclusions, and didn't read the article before you jumped on the sky is falling bandwagon. No one is literally (or figuratively) starving because they received a letter. They have up to ONE YEAR to respond to the letter before anything happens.
But yes, filing a GDPR review request would likely be a good idea.
How would you feel if your government accused you of fraud in an official letter ?
Like an American citizen. Last year 0.86% of all tax returns resulted in an audit.
This new system incorrectly flagged 0.80%. And they got a letter. I'm fairly certain that responding to the letter is both easier and faster than getting audited by the IRS in the US.
So they analyzed 1,000,000 claims, and detected 40,000 of those were fraudulent. Of which 8,000 were "incorrectly" marked as fraudulent. That sounds like a pretty decent first run to me. Unless you want to manually look through 1,000,000 claims, or pay a team to look them all over. This just reduced the cost to identify fraudulent claims by 25x.
Not perfect, no. But having a team analyze the 40,000 claims it kicked out is a heck of a lot cheaper than analyzing the 1,000,000 that went in.
There aren't weird bugs that are platform dependent between Node.JS on a Windows, Linux or ARM server.
Not sure what you are talking about there, but there was serious platform dependent bugs in the most commonly used grunt/gulp/npm libraries (those run on node.js) up until a couple years ago when I stopped using all of them. Just stupid oversights like permissions issues, filename conventions, filename case sensitivity issues, forward slash vs backslash, etc etc. Then you would get into the more serious architecture issues like the order of event notifications when files changes when you were looking for file changes. It wasn't just one way either, it was both ways. Mostly code that worked on linux just didn't work on windows (as most of the grunt/gulp/npm devs use linux) took a shortcut and used code that wasn't platform agnostic, but every once in a while I would see code that worked fine on windows, but wouldn't work on *nix.
If I had a Nest, I'd probably break out the dyke cutter and remove the microphone.
And I would laugh my ass off after you thoroughly destroy your nest thermostat because you failed to read the summary which is about the nest secure, which is a completely different product.
Because a lot of furnaces and almost all air conditioners and heat pump's efficiency changes based on the outside temperature. Because your home isn't 100% insulated, it also affects how much extra heating/cooling is going to be required to raise/drop the house temperature. Not rocket science.
If you wanted a stupid scheduling thermostat, then I suggest buying one of those. I didn't buy a nest thermostat so it could be just a stupid scheduling thermostat.
BTW, this article is on the Nest Secure, not the Nest Thermostat, so... Not sure why this was even brought up.
2. Yeah, that is probably why I never get blocked since I always have it running on my gaming machine and set to auto update.
3. If you are installing a game from CD/DVD, then you don't need internet (not sure why you are using steam for this except for maybe a consistent interface?). You install as normal, then you can add a shortcut to the game in steam so that it shows up in your library. I had notepad set up as a "game" at one time this way. As for "offline" mode, it's the first menu option "Steam", and the second option under that "Go offline...".
4. Not sure why this happened to you, as I've moved steam libraries many, many times and they were 500GB+, and I would have noticed it redownloading them.
5. Yeah, depending on the game, it might put your saved files there, but that is game dependent, just like the non-steam versions. I always back up my profile anyhow though. I like having my photos, shortcuts, favorates, etc moved with me to a new machine. Not that many would, but you can also have your profile roam with you (not really easy to set up, but doable), so that every machine you have then has your saved games, so you can play the game on any machine you want. Again, sort of neat.
Yes, your use cases are much different. About 20% of my gaming time is with others, and they are remote from me. I have a group of friends I've been playing with for 15+ years, and not a single one of us still lives in the same state anymore.
As for your kids being able to play on steam, yes, if they use the same windows login as you, then they could access your games. Still couldn't buy games though, as that would require your credit card info or paypal password to actually buy it. Although, not so sure on the in-game stuff as I don't have any games with in-game purchases. It's usually a DLC/Add-on, that that is actually done outside of the game itself, so you can't buy anything without your credit card information or paypal password. Unless you save your credit card info in steam, and even then they need to know your CVV I believe.
Different priorities for different people.
I'm not sure on the multiple steam accounts thing. I only game on 1 PC that is built for gaming.
As for the most of your rules, as far as I can see, steam doesn't break most of them. You can move games from one machine to another without reinstalling them, I've done it many times.
1. Nothing runs in the background when not playing the game. True, but half the time I have voice chats open while playing games, so I don't see much point in this and haven't cared in 10 years. The background processes are so minor it doesn't matter to me.
2. I don't think I've ever been blocked by steam from playing any of my games. Of course, this is just my experience, yours might be different.
3. Doesn't require internet. Steam doesn't require internet either. You can play in offline mode, but you need to periodically go back online and I'm not sure what the frequency is... a week I thought. Not a concern for me since I always play online anyhow, and I have my games set to auto-update automatically and limit it's bandwidth usage so no one in the house can even tell when it's updating.
4. I can play a game without having to install it after reinstalling OS. You don't have to reinstall steam games either. It's pretty simple to move them to another machine (or drive).
5. I can specify where it is installed and it doesn't hide files. You can specify where the games are installed, I typically choose C:\games, but they are then put into c:\games\steam\steamapps\common and all the games I install are there, unless I had a second drive, and then you can choose to install some of them there as well. I've done that in the past when I had a small OS drive and a large spinny disk. Now I just keep everything on my 1TB SSD, and I uninstall what I don't need. If I want the game back, I click install and it'll be on my machine in less than 10 minutes (for large games). Most games download and install in a couple minutes.
Not disagreeing with you, but my experiences are apparently very different, and my needs/wants are very different, so steam works great for me.
First, let me say that I actually like Steam, and the only games I have that aren't purchased there are because the game isn't offered for sale on Steam, but on some companies own private Steam-like service (origin, u-play, epic, etc).
That said...If you think there is more competition for purchasing games for the PC than there was before, you need to take your blinders off. For example, you can ONLY buy most EA games on origin, period. A few more are only available on epic. A few more are only available on u-play. That's not competition. Not like being able to buy your game from Amazon, Target, Walmart, GameStop, or 50 other stores.
Personally, I find the convenience of having my steam library available to me at all times far outweighs the benefits of the physical media. I like being able to uninstall a game to free up space, then 6 months later being able to reinstall it for a quick game or two without having to try and find the physical media and hope it's still readable. Or find an external bluray/dvd player to hook up so I can reinstall it since my PC doesn't have one built-in.
There are a sizable group of prisoners who are there for no other reason than possessing slightly too much of a particular plant or other substance. We're wasting a lot of money locking up people who could otherwise be paying taxes.
Especially if marijuana is legalized and taxed!
Because some of us travel, and would like to put 16+ hours of movies and tv shows on our phones so that we can watch them while travelling and that won't fit on a 32GB phone.
Airplane's WIFI is terrible (and expensive). Cellular again isn't an option at all on airplanes and really expensive if you are on a layover for a few hours.
If it's taxes, then I should get a say in what people study, since they are government employees
What other government agency that your taxes pay for do you actually get a say in what they do? None that I can think of.
I don't recall getting a say in what type of asphalt to lay when they redid the roads, because I wouldn't have chosen the craptastic one they currently use that wears out and needs to be redone every 3 years.
From what I understand, the issue is that some lenovo laptops were configured with 4GB of ram, and secure boot enabled. Unfortunately the IE fix triggered a bug in the secure boot code where it couldn't validate the entirety of the windows executables. It had really nothing to do with the IE fix other than it made the executable larger than before. Any change to any executable would have triggered the same effect.
But that is just what I've heard with very little actual technical information. For example the issue didn't affect lenovo laptops with 8GB of RAM or more, or had secure boot disabled. Likely there is a third piece missing that has some custom lenovo driver or BIOS issue that is also "buggy".