The android version is crap. Having tried it on multiple phones it always has the same bug.
If there is music playing through the headphones and I unplug them, the music pauses (like it should). The problem is that it will randomly unpause itself hours later and start playing through the speakers, even if it's just sitting on the table untouched.
I agree with you. You never hear claims of racism or calls for diversity in professional basketball, yet it's predominately one race. The difference is that it's NOT predominately white.
I graduated HS 17 years ago in Minnesota. When I was in HS, to take a AP class all you had to do was sign up for it along with your regular classes and meet the prerequisites. AP was just another level of regular HS that happened to count toward college, you didn't have to take any sort of test for it.
The summary mentioned Justice Alito recusing himself because of his family's stock in Disney (which owns ABC) and it makes perfect sense to recuse in this case.
But what if the judge had owned stock in CBS or FOX instead? Would he still have recused himself? A ruling in support of Aereo might negatively impact the stock price of corporations not directly related to the case. So the fact that a judge owns stock, regardless of it's connection to the current case, can lead to bias.
I propose we ban all judges and congress members from owning stock during their term in office. How can you judge or regulate something fairly and objectively if you have a personal financial interest in it?
Asking the NSA for advice on information security is like asking a convicted burglar for advice on locks. Sure, he is probably expertly qualified to tell you which locks are the hardest to break, but will he act in your best interest?
A lot of the ideas presented (writing it down, getting a lock box, etc) won't work if you have ALSO forgotten where you hid them.
The only way to be completely safe is to let another person hold the passwords for you, either directly (by giving it to them) or indirectly (letting them know which bank the lockbox is at), and then give instructions for this person to contact you on a regular basis to remind you that they have your passwords (in case you also forget who you gave the passwords to)
Because it's not their job. GM has engineers and designers to do that. If this hardware manufacturer doesn't have a design team (and only does post-design production) then it's time to find a different manufacturer
They only "supported" those security initatives so that they could install backdoors in them. Stuff like the Dual_EC_DRBG random number specification from NIST that isn't actually random.
"....the Dual_EC_DRBG, like many algorithms, relies on parameters labelled P and Q for security. These could be randomly generated; however, the actual choice of P and Q were dictated by those involved in the design of the algorithm — the NSA."
Everyone on the board of directors at blackberry is kicking themselves for not thinking of this idea first. THEY could have been the ones selling their "world renowned" mobile keyboard to the apple masses, instead of getting beat by a Reality TV host.
Moral of this story, either give your customers what they want, or someone else will.
The fact that palm licensed the patent doesn't make the patent valid, it only means that licensing the patent was cheaper than fighting it. Patent trolls usually set the licensing fee slightly cheaper than what it would cost to fight it, for this very reason reason (I'm not saying Blackbery is trolling here, I'm just saying that licensing does not prove validity)
A slightly different example: It can cost a lot of money to evict someone from your property (as much as $30,000 in legal fees), so its not uncommon for a landlord to "bribe" a bad tenant to leave. The fact that money changed hands does not imply that the landlord somehow owned the tenant something.
"Reproductive fitness" ends at about age 25 as far as evolution is concerned. Natural selection doesn't care one bit about what happens to you after you procreate (the male preying mantis is a perfect example of this)
Cancer usually doesn't affect people until well after the age at which they would have reproduced, and as a result wouldn't be filtered-out by natural selection.
A better example of this is sickle cell anemia, a hereditary mutation that eventually kills the person who has it. However, this mutation also grants the person complete immunity to malaria, making it more likely that a sickle-cell individual will survive enough to reproduce in a malaria-infested environment than a non-sickle-cell person would have.
You are correct in saying that the immune system SHOULD be fighting this, but what is the incentive (for the species) in survival terms? You still lived long enough to reproduce, and that is the only thing your DNA cares about.
Maybe, some day, we can find a way retrain the immune system to fight cancer, but such an ability is not going to naturally evolve on it's own
True story of a white journalist who wandered around the southern states during the 1960's disguised as a black man, in order to see first hand the effects of racism and poverty.
"When I asked the engineers and designers about this, I got mostly shrugs in return."
So not a single person on the design and engineering team wears glasses, and it simply never occurred to them that there would need to be a prescription version?
If it's more profitable for the carriers to sell embedded-sim phones, then that is exactly what they will do, regardless of the intent of the specification or the wishes of it's designers.
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The android version is crap. Having tried it on multiple phones it always has the same bug.
If there is music playing through the headphones and I unplug them, the music pauses (like it should). The problem is that it will randomly unpause itself hours later and start playing through the speakers, even if it's just sitting on the table untouched.
What about all the people who bought the HTC one just for the speakers?
My friend bought one and it sounds surprisingly good for a phone, better than the average computer speakers and far better than any laptop speakers
I agree with you. You never hear claims of racism or calls for diversity in professional basketball, yet it's predominately one race. The difference is that it's NOT predominately white.
I graduated HS 17 years ago in Minnesota. When I was in HS, to take a AP class all you had to do was sign up for it along with your regular classes and meet the prerequisites. AP was just another level of regular HS that happened to count toward college, you didn't have to take any sort of test for it.
My HS (17 years ago) had a programming class too. It was IBM line basic (10 print "hello world" 20 goto 10)
That's exactly my point, almost everyone that is "qualified" to be a judge is also too biased to be a judge.
How can you be impartial when you have a personal financial stake in almost every ruling?
The summary mentioned Justice Alito recusing himself because of his family's stock in Disney (which owns ABC) and it makes perfect sense to recuse in this case.
But what if the judge had owned stock in CBS or FOX instead? Would he still have recused himself? A ruling in support of Aereo might negatively impact the stock price of corporations not directly related to the case. So the fact that a judge owns stock, regardless of it's connection to the current case, can lead to bias.
I propose we ban all judges and congress members from owning stock during their term in office. How can you judge or regulate something fairly and objectively if you have a personal financial interest in it?
Asking the NSA for advice on information security is like asking a convicted burglar for advice on locks. Sure, he is probably expertly qualified to tell you which locks are the hardest to break, but will he act in your best interest?
A lot of the ideas presented (writing it down, getting a lock box, etc) won't work if you have ALSO forgotten where you hid them.
The only way to be completely safe is to let another person hold the passwords for you, either directly (by giving it to them) or indirectly (letting them know which bank the lockbox is at), and then give instructions for this person to contact you on a regular basis to remind you that they have your passwords (in case you also forget who you gave the passwords to)
Because it's not their job. GM has engineers and designers to do that.
If this hardware manufacturer doesn't have a design team (and only does post-design production) then it's time to find a different manufacturer
They only "supported" those security initatives so that they could install backdoors in them. Stuff like the Dual_EC_DRBG random number specification from NIST that isn't actually random.
"....the Dual_EC_DRBG, like many algorithms, relies on parameters labelled P and Q for security. These could be randomly generated; however, the actual choice of P and Q were dictated by those involved in the design of the algorithm — the NSA."
Yeah, I misread the title too, and I was thinking "why is slashdot interviewing that guy from MASH?"
Everyone on the board of directors at blackberry is kicking themselves for not thinking of this idea first. THEY could have been the ones selling their "world renowned" mobile keyboard to the apple masses, instead of getting beat by a Reality TV host.
Moral of this story, either give your customers what they want, or someone else will.
The fact that palm licensed the patent doesn't make the patent valid, it only means that licensing the patent was cheaper than fighting it. Patent trolls usually set the licensing fee slightly cheaper than what it would cost to fight it, for this very reason reason (I'm not saying Blackbery is trolling here, I'm just saying that licensing does not prove validity)
A slightly different example: It can cost a lot of money to evict someone from your property (as much as $30,000 in legal fees), so its not uncommon for a landlord to "bribe" a bad tenant to leave. The fact that money changed hands does not imply that the landlord somehow owned the tenant something.
"Reproductive fitness" ends at about age 25 as far as evolution is concerned. Natural selection doesn't care one bit about what happens to you after you procreate (the male preying mantis is a perfect example of this)
Cancer usually doesn't affect people until well after the age at which they would have reproduced, and as a result wouldn't be filtered-out by natural selection.
A better example of this is sickle cell anemia, a hereditary mutation that eventually kills the person who has it. However, this mutation also grants the person complete immunity to malaria, making it more likely that a sickle-cell individual will survive enough to reproduce in a malaria-infested environment than a non-sickle-cell person would have.
You are correct in saying that the immune system SHOULD be fighting this, but what is the incentive (for the species) in survival terms? You still lived long enough to reproduce, and that is the only thing your DNA cares about.
Maybe, some day, we can find a way retrain the immune system to fight cancer, but such an ability is not going to naturally evolve on it's own
Start a Kickstarter fund, with the Top Backer prize being a free trip back to 1601 to rescue the time traveler
Black like me, by John Howard Griffin
True story of a white journalist who wandered around the southern states during the 1960's disguised as a black man, in order to see first hand the effects of racism and poverty.
"When I asked the engineers and designers about this, I got mostly shrugs in return."
So not a single person on the design and engineering team wears glasses, and it simply never occurred to them that there would need to be a prescription version?
Considering that modern smartphones are coming with 1920x1080 resolution on a 5inch LCD, 1280x720 is pathetic on a 7 inch LCD.
And the British increased their average IQ by exporting all the criminals to Australia.....
Salt water is better than dry salt, it's free to the local government, and the brine would have to be disposed of somewhere anyway.
And then that 4 inches of slush gets compressed and frozen into a 1 inch thick slab of ice (covered in a layer of powdered ice)
Spiked tires and tire chains are actually illegal to use in Wisconsin, except for emergency vehicles and rural mail carriers.
The best you can use there is regular soft-rubber snow tires
And could they please take Texas and Florida with them?
If it's more profitable for the carriers to sell embedded-sim phones, then that is exactly what they will do, regardless of the intent of the specification or the wishes of it's designers.