Nonsense. It's been known for decades that the real power is in the phone's radio firmware, that on most phones has full, 100% access to the same RAM your phone's main CPU uses. It can also track you without the OS knowing, as the GPS radio is controlled by that firmware.
It can phone home, take pictures without the OS knowing, the list goes on and on and on.
All phones have closed source firmwares these days.
Yet everyone focuses on the OS as if it somehow gives control to the device.
I'm retired. The only pictures they can take are me watching TV or on the John. At age 80, I still have my teeth for a smile. I have a belief the spyware will only be useful for working stiffs who do finance, engineering or medicine. A teacher has no fear of spyware, neither does a housewife, or small business man. I don't give a second thought to spyware. It would only bother me if I have reduced battery life.
I have no idea. Let me use Google to find the answer.
Because of google we probably have fewer things memorized- but we are capable of doing so much more by googling an answer. Google enables our embetterment.
Knowledge is gained through experience and memory of same. If you do not fill your brain with useful information, but rely on Google, your catalog of knowledge is limited. The consequences are that your brain has few memories of past experiences in life. It is those experiences that help you make correct rapid decisions.
I wondered what that huge-ass extension cord going from the side of my house towards the general direction of the Amazon data center was for!
That and the $400k/month electric bills. I figured I just had the AC set kind of high.
Not living in the USA, My home 2000sq feet on 2 floors, and all our hotwater needs for 7 people cost us 307/mo. Our home is electrically heated and cooled. Our electricity is around 7.8cents / kwh
We opted out of using natural gas for heating. Did not want to maintain a flu and chimney and the worry of a potential leak.
I think a good test would be to have a really incriminating-sounding conversation in the dorms and see what red flags go up.
"Yeah, she kept screaming 'no', but I know she wanted it." "Yeah, and then the bombs will go off. You got your ammo yet?" "$50 will get you the exam ahead of time. $250 for the answers." "Make America Great Again!"
Reminds me of the days when/. sigs were used to spam Echelon.
How does the "Echo gadget" contribute to a better education?
There is currently a serious labor shortage in the skilled trades. It's likely good work for someone with the skills to drive a truck. There are over a million skilled manufacturing jobs unfilled in the US right now.
We could do a better job as a society of making training available, but it's really not the people who already do skilled work that will be left out in the cold here. Unskilled labor has been going away for decades now, and will eventually vanish. What the heck happens to the 10% or 15% of people who simply can't cut it in a skilled job?
You need to make the salaries in the skilled and semiskilled trades attractive. When a waitress has to live from her tips, that is not what "American" humanity is about.
The thing with Alex Jones is that it's fairly obvious that he's off his nut. Do we really need Facebook to protect us from him? Are you incapable of listening to people and coming to the determination as to whether or not they're full of crap? And if not, who would the appropriate party be? Facebook? The government? Some agency? All have potential for abuse. I'd rather hear and see everything and make up my own mind.
Who is the one that is attacted to Alex Jones. You mention you are not, but if he has a following, then what does he truly offer .
If women knew how to sew, they could add a leg pocket to their shorts or jeans. That pocket would serve for their cellphone and probably some coins. Modern women don't know much how to sew a hem, use a sewing machine or do more than reinstall a button. They leave that chore to the drycleaners.
I was a business owner and before that, I was a project leader. As project leader, I could manage 7 people adequately as I had to know my projects status and to prevent things from going wrong. Each of my teams took 15% of my time. I met with them briefly once a day. I had to review their questionst to me and obtain answers or get actions to be taken by other departments.
With my own business, I had the additional task of sales and to being a business guru. Again, I had to manage team leaders, accountants, etc. And again the rule of 15% was realistic. 7x15% is 105%. I had little time to meet a client for lunch or golf.
Was I worth 20 times the average salary? They did the work, I orchestrated. True I invested money, but I believe and practiced that I should receive a normal salary and dividends for my shares. My employees became shareholders and we prospered all. I don't need country estates, I just wanted what I was contributing to society and recognition for it.
These CEOs should earn their income with a good base salary, maxing out at 15 to 20 times the average of their employees, and the rest, based on share dividends or increase in share value. I don't believe that the CEO with 350 times the average salary is truly contributing to society.
Did Musk do anything different that Trump? Trump says things and takes no action. Where is the drug price reduction? Where are affordable universities? What about the investment to combat the infrastructure that is crumbling, or has crumbled?
All that Musk did was think aloud. You don't have to believe him and you do have to analyze and take / make your own decisions.
The cost of land appropriation, the cost of materials to replace the building, and the public works investment to bring water, sewer and utilites to their buildings, as well as labor to construct and furnish the site is reasonable. Heaters and air-conditioning are permenant fixtures, adding to the value of the premises.
Apple wants to treat their customers the way they are treating the city and the governments.
"The screening process is voluntary, Wiggins said, but customers who choose not be screened won't be able to ride on the subway."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Trump has convinced Americans to live in fear. What a shame. Next, fingerprint readers. Obviously smartcard transport passes are not good as they may be passed to others who could get a free ride.
I'm not wearing the one I never bought. My smart watch is thin, waterproof, lightweight and sweatproof. It tells me the time exactly twice per day, runs independently of battery chargers and at othertimes is less than 10 seconds out in a month.
The stuff that separates the men from the boys is the cost of their toys. I will take a Rolex.
Intel seems to be having problems again, while AMD is rolling out 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadrippers this week. AMD's got the high-end processor market all to itself, while Intel is revealing that they were never that good as they advertised.
Intel could have had a monopoly if they didn't make the Pentium bug math error. Computers are supposed to be "perfect" at computations, but the Intel bug threw some court cases in the wrong direction. I'm not sure they can be trusted anymore.
Now AMD is rolling out processor changes that were discussed here on Slashdot years ago, and they're off in the speed races and higher core limits. (Intel maxes out at about 6, new Threadripers offer 32 hyperthreaded cores that simulate 64 processors.)
Intel better go back to the drawing boards... they're behind in a game they used to always win.
For gaining access to the cpu, you need to have access to the VM that boots that CPU. And if you have that, then what is the fuss about? I at home or with my small business server, I don't give a shit about the security flaw. I don't run a bank and frankly, I do most of my financial transactions via my cellphone. Why are we not concentrating on reality to see if someone next to me can read my cellphone contents.
For the security breach would you need to be running software that somehow got installed and is surreptitiously running and sending information out via some new opened port on your router.
"welfare fraud is statistically speaking, extremely rare. In 2012, the DHA found only 500 cases of fraud among Sacramento's 193,000 recipients."
To be precise, detecting welfare fraud is extremely rare.
What was the amount/yr of the fraud, and for how many years did it take place? Want to bet they could not recover any abuse taking of money, other than putting the person in double debt
When Trump leaves office (willingly or otherwise), there is going to be a gigantic cleanup. All those dossiers items that were never looked at, because Trump had no interest in them. And then, to discover that the staff had a great ride on the backs of the tax payers, not because they wanted that ride, but because there was no game plan other that microscopic equality. Trump wants a dollar for dollar deal with China. Cut consider this China provides the USA steel at $2.00 The USA uses that steel to make domestic and export products which they sell for profit, say $25.00 China does not buy 2.00 of steel, but the USA has made $23.00 profit, and has employed many people along the way.
We should have military dominance of the deep sea as well. I mean almost NO one can go there. We need to establish a base on the moon and a colony on mars for 'security'. After all, all that nothing is a real threat.
Perhaps he should first be concentrating on healthcare, education reform, lowering the costs of drugs, infrastructure, reducing for profit prisons. He could have a ordered a thousand troops to assist in the firefighting, if only there was firefighting equipment available.
I have a password generator that is fairly simple. I uses the website info, my reserved word and a salt string as input to the sha1sum program. I upper case every alternate letter.
That modified sha1sum output usually does the job. No two sites that I visit gets the same password string.
What I think the information lacks is the listing of the ages of the victims. I would think that women get an attack at an older age than does a man. She is therefore closer to end-of-life (in years) than the man.
Give me someone who understands business operations, I will let him/her spend some time in purchasing accounts payable accounts receivable marketing hr inventory management logistics production planning and control PMC CRM
They don't need to be the expert programmer, but the expert in business processes. And I will kiss him/her on both cheeks and make him/her my IT CEO.
A car travelling at 90 mph is moving about 4 cm/millisecond. So going from 200 fps to 2000 fps is going from 20 cm to 2 cm per cycle. What's the use of recognizing a car every two centimeters? For a jogger at 9 mph it's down from 2 cm to 2 mm. It's neat and all but I don't see how that necessary to react in the time frames a car needs to react. Even if it takes 3-4 frames for the car to get a motion vector 0.2 seconds is still way quicker than a human and 0.02 seconds doesn't bring that much.
2cm is about 3/4 inch. Could the vehicle recalculate and take a trend line view of a problem. That would lead to sufficient leadtime to prevent a fatality. If the car could know what to do by one foot of travel (at 90mph), wow.
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Nonsense. It's been known for decades that the real power is in the phone's radio firmware, that on most phones has full, 100% access to the same RAM your phone's main CPU uses. It can also track you without the OS knowing, as the GPS radio is controlled by that firmware.
It can phone home, take pictures without the OS knowing, the list goes on and on and on.
All phones have closed source firmwares these days.
Yet everyone focuses on the OS as if it somehow gives control to the device.
I'm retired. The only pictures they can take are me watching TV or on the John. At age 80, I still have my teeth for a smile. I have a belief the spyware will only be useful for working stiffs who do finance, engineering or medicine. A teacher has no fear of spyware, neither does a housewife, or small business man. I don't give a second thought to spyware. It would only bother me if I have reduced battery life.
I have no idea. Let me use Google to find the answer.
Because of google we probably have fewer things memorized- but we are capable of doing so much more by googling an answer. Google enables our embetterment.
Knowledge is gained through experience and memory of same. If you do not fill your brain with useful information, but rely on Google, your catalog of knowledge is limited. The consequences are that your brain has few memories of past experiences in life. It is those experiences that help you make correct rapid decisions.
Flash was good for its time, but its time was long ago.
It is still used by the BBC (England). I have issues with watching their videos.
I wondered what that huge-ass extension cord going from the side of my house towards the general direction of the Amazon data center was for!
That and the $400k/month electric bills. I figured I just had the AC set kind of high.
Not living in the USA, My home 2000sq feet on 2 floors, and all our hotwater needs for 7 people cost us 307/mo. Our home is electrically heated and cooled. Our electricity is around 7.8cents / kwh
We opted out of using natural gas for heating. Did not want to maintain a flu and chimney and the worry of a potential leak.
I think a good test would be to have a really incriminating-sounding conversation in the dorms and see what red flags go up.
"Yeah, she kept screaming 'no', but I know she wanted it."
"Yeah, and then the bombs will go off. You got your ammo yet?"
"$50 will get you the exam ahead of time. $250 for the answers."
"Make America Great Again!"
Reminds me of the days when /. sigs were used to spam Echelon.
How does the "Echo gadget" contribute to a better education?
There is currently a serious labor shortage in the skilled trades. It's likely good work for someone with the skills to drive a truck. There are over a million skilled manufacturing jobs unfilled in the US right now.
We could do a better job as a society of making training available, but it's really not the people who already do skilled work that will be left out in the cold here. Unskilled labor has been going away for decades now, and will eventually vanish. What the heck happens to the 10% or 15% of people who simply can't cut it in a skilled job?
You need to make the salaries in the skilled and semiskilled trades attractive. When a waitress has to live from her tips, that is not what "American" humanity is about.
We need to rethink the concept of work
The thing with Alex Jones is that it's fairly obvious that he's off his nut. Do we really need Facebook to protect us from him? Are you incapable of listening to people and coming to the determination as to whether or not they're full of crap? And if not, who would the appropriate party be? Facebook? The government? Some agency? All have potential for abuse. I'd rather hear and see everything and make up my own mind.
Who is the one that is attacted to Alex Jones. You mention you are not, but if he has a following, then what does he truly offer .
If women knew how to sew, they could add a leg pocket to their shorts or jeans. That pocket would serve for their cellphone and probably some coins. Modern women don't know much how to sew a hem, use a sewing machine or do more than reinstall a button. They leave that chore to the drycleaners.
I was a business owner and before that, I was a project leader.
As project leader, I could manage 7 people adequately as I had to know my projects status and to prevent things from going wrong.
Each of my teams took 15% of my time. I met with them briefly once a day. I had to review their questionst to me and obtain answers or get actions to be taken by other departments.
With my own business, I had the additional task of sales and to being a business guru. Again, I had to manage team leaders, accountants, etc. And again the rule of 15% was realistic. 7x15% is 105%. I had little time to meet a client for lunch or golf.
Was I worth 20 times the average salary? They did the work, I orchestrated. True I invested money, but I believe and practiced that I should receive a normal salary and dividends for my shares. My employees became shareholders and we prospered all. I don't need country estates, I just wanted what I was contributing to society and recognition for it.
These CEOs should earn their income with a good base salary, maxing out at 15 to 20 times the average of their employees, and the rest, based on share dividends or increase in share value.
I don't believe that the CEO with 350 times the average salary is truly contributing to society.
Did Musk do anything different that Trump? Trump says things and takes no action.
Where is the drug price reduction? Where are affordable universities?
What about the investment to combat the infrastructure that is crumbling, or has crumbled?
All that Musk did was think aloud. You don't have to believe him and you do have to analyze and take / make your own decisions.
The cost of land appropriation, the cost of materials to replace the building, and the public works investment to bring water, sewer and utilites to their buildings, as well as labor to construct and furnish the site is reasonable. Heaters and air-conditioning are permenant fixtures, adding to the value of the premises.
Apple wants to treat their customers the way they are treating the city and the governments.
"The screening process is voluntary, Wiggins said, but customers who choose not be screened won't be able to ride on the subway."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Trump has convinced Americans to live in fear. What a shame.
Next, fingerprint readers. Obviously smartcard transport passes are not good as they may be passed to others who could get a free ride.
How about I never buy a smartwatch instead?
I'm not wearing the one I never bought. My smart watch is thin, waterproof, lightweight and sweatproof. It tells me the time exactly twice per day, runs independently of battery chargers and at othertimes is less than 10 seconds out in a month.
The stuff that separates the men from the boys is the cost of their toys. I will take a Rolex.
Intel seems to be having problems again, while AMD is rolling out 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadrippers this week. AMD's got the high-end processor market all to itself, while Intel is revealing that they were never that good as they advertised.
Intel could have had a monopoly if they didn't make the Pentium bug math error. Computers are supposed to be "perfect" at computations, but the Intel bug threw some court cases in the wrong direction. I'm not sure they can be trusted anymore.
Now AMD is rolling out processor changes that were discussed here on Slashdot years ago, and they're off in the speed races and higher core limits. (Intel maxes out at about 6, new Threadripers offer 32 hyperthreaded cores that simulate 64 processors.)
Intel better go back to the drawing boards... they're behind in a game they used to always win.
For gaining access to the cpu, you need to have access to the VM that boots that CPU. And if you have that, then what is the fuss about?
I at home or with my small business server, I don't give a shit about the security flaw. I don't run a bank and frankly, I do most of my financial transactions via my cellphone. Why are we not concentrating on reality to see if someone next to me can read my cellphone contents.
For the security breach would you need to be running software that somehow got installed and is surreptitiously running and sending information out via some new opened port on your router.
from the ./ summary:
"welfare fraud is statistically speaking, extremely rare. In 2012, the DHA found only 500 cases of fraud among Sacramento's 193,000 recipients."
To be precise, detecting welfare fraud is extremely rare.
What was the amount/yr of the fraud, and for how many years did it take place? Want to bet they could not recover any abuse taking of money, other than putting the person in double debt
Yea Forcing Diversity in to things at the expense of people that could be more qualified has never been a bad idea.
I suppose that transgender people will count "one" for each side of male/female.
When Trump leaves office (willingly or otherwise), there is going to be a gigantic cleanup.
All those dossiers items that were never looked at, because Trump had no interest in them.
And then, to discover that the staff had a great ride on the backs of the tax payers, not because they wanted that ride, but because there was no game plan other that microscopic equality.
Trump wants a dollar for dollar deal with China.
Cut consider this
China provides the USA steel at $2.00
The USA uses that steel to make domestic and export products which they sell for profit, say $25.00
China does not buy 2.00 of steel, but the USA has made $23.00 profit, and has employed many people along the way.
The USA would benefit if the steel was a gift.
No 4k or 8k TV for me
We should have military dominance of the deep sea as well. I mean almost NO one can go there. We need to establish a base on the moon and a colony on mars for 'security'. After all, all that nothing is a real threat.
Perhaps he should first be concentrating on healthcare, education reform, lowering the costs of drugs, infrastructure, reducing for profit prisons. He could have a ordered a thousand troops to assist in the firefighting, if only there was firefighting equipment available.
I have a password generator that is fairly simple.
I uses the website info, my reserved word and a salt string as input to the sha1sum program. I upper case every alternate letter.
That modified sha1sum output usually does the job. No two sites that I visit gets the same password string.
What I think the information lacks is the listing of the ages of the victims.
I would think that women get an attack at an older age than does a man.
She is therefore closer to end-of-life (in years) than the man.
If I take a picture of my car and I want to post it, do I need Honda's permission to do so?
Its just a family car, a few years old with 40k miles.
As I see it, the middle USA to the equator is going to be inhabitable and not able to support crops. A new desert.
Time to buy land in Canada and in Northern USA.
Give me someone who understands business operations, I will let him/her spend some time in
purchasing
accounts payable
accounts receivable
marketing
hr
inventory management
logistics
production planning and control
PMC
CRM
They don't need to be the expert programmer, but the expert in business processes.
And I will kiss him/her on both cheeks and make him/her my IT CEO.
A car travelling at 90 mph is moving about 4 cm/millisecond. So going from 200 fps to 2000 fps is going from 20 cm to 2 cm per cycle. What's the use of recognizing a car every two centimeters? For a jogger at 9 mph it's down from 2 cm to 2 mm. It's neat and all but I don't see how that necessary to react in the time frames a car needs to react. Even if it takes 3-4 frames for the car to get a motion vector 0.2 seconds is still way quicker than a human and 0.02 seconds doesn't bring that much.
2cm is about 3/4 inch. Could the vehicle recalculate and take a trend line view of a problem. That would lead to sufficient leadtime to prevent a fatality. If the car could know what to do by one foot of travel (at 90mph), wow.