Why would anyone use BitCoin for tax evasion when they could just incorporate and use the many legal tax loopholes that the government refuses to close?
If you want to attach name(s) to legislation please disclose all the names and parties of the people who proposed the legislation, the majority parties who passed it, and the name of the president that signed it. In this case, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 was proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), and it passed a Republican majority in the House and Senate, and was finally signed by Obama (D). Disclosing this information gives people a fuller picture of who is to praise/blame, especially when both parties are responsible for its passage.
I already do this (with a gas guzzler, no less) by driving with one hand on the horn the whole time to politely let everyone know they need to get out of my way.
I find this very hard to believe. The new Razer Blade Pro uses two m2 SSDs in RAID0 to achieve extremely high throughput. Benchmarks will settle the score, but I don't think your statement is going to hold up.
While that is very true, it's possible we're witnessing a pattern of decline in the quality of Samsung products. Despite the fact that the products are coming from different divisions, there could be something rotten going on in their corporate culture that is starting to pervade their products. I still appreciate some of their products but I'm going to be keeping a closer eye on them before purchasing anything new from them.
all the replacement parts are all new part numbers... almost none of the original parts are listed. They crank them out fast with flaws and then try to fix them after the fact. Just plain horrible engineering!
It's a new form of development strategy: Fail Fast, Release Faster!
This is enough to break my complacency of using Google products. I already just finished uploading my files to a cloud server that I'm hosting as an alternative to Google Drive. Does anyone have any recommendations for Chromium-based browsers with optimized privacy and security such as SRWare Iron or Comodo Dragon? How about privacy-based secure e-mail services such as ProtonMail? My last steps will be to switch over to DuckDuckGo for default search and find a custom Android ROM that is frequently updated and allows lots of visual customization.
You know a company is going downward when the headlines focus more on the features they're removing from their products rather than the new features they're providing.
If they want, they can write a law and grant that authority to an agency.
As much as I like some of the senators imposing these questions, let's be honest: no new legislation will be proposed, let alone voted down. Like all of the other congressional inquisitions and hearings that have occurred recently, the senators will jump up and down and screech like a gang of wild monkeys but in the end absolutely nothing will change.
This is exactly the mindset that leads to waste, inefficiency and bloat. If you can save even 5% on bandwidth, which is a limited resource, WHY NOT DO IT? And this is way more than 5%.
Because h.265 requires hardware decoding to be even moderately watchable and the vast majority of devices that people currently own are not capable of decoding the latest h.265 videos. Netflix could force people to upgrade which would cause them to buy new decoding hardware and the waste you mention would shift from wasted bits on a network connection to wasted hardware in landfills. Unless, of course, there is a standardized way of querying hardware to determine which codecs and maximum resolutions/bitrates are supported by hardware decoders but I'm not aware of such a feature.
Even if you don't buy Apple products, you're still effected by their business decisions. For instance, many laptop manufacturers stopped making a 17" laptop after Apple discontinued the 17" Macbook Pro. Worse yet, many phone manufacturers released phones without headphone jacks simply based on the rumor that the new iPhone wasn't going to have one. Therefore, even though you may not buy Apple products, your choice of features becomes more limited as companies blindly follow Apple's lead.
The reason why people are worried is that you will need to get a new phone at some point. The 6S won't work forever and it certainly won't be supported forever, so that means that at some point within the next few years Apple fans may have to decide between getting an iPhone without a headphone jack or switching to Android to get a phone with one. Worse yet, a number of manufacturers of Android phones are shipping phones without headphone jacks because, for some reason, they insist on following everything Apple does or is rumored to do - even on the most boneheaded decisions.
Security vulnerabilities are discovered and patched all of the time. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time writing extremely meticulous code for an exploit that could be patched by the time you're done writing the exploit code. Combine that with the fact that there's probably a ton of vulnerabilities in a lot of different applications, drivers, and firmware and it probably makes more sense to focus on quantity of exploits rather than quality.
This is one tenant of Libertarianism in a nutshell.
Thank you for confirming that Libertarians live in nutshells. Now if we could just get them to go the next step and admit that they modeled their domiciles after their beliefs.
One of the main points of engineering is to take something that currently doesn't work and improve upon it to make it work. The problem is that we don't currently know why it won't work which is why it's necessary to start small and then scale up.
I agree with everything you've said. My 17-inch MBP is almost 10 years old and I refuse to replace it with the newer models that have a smaller screen, fewer ports, and no ability to upgrade the memory, storage, or battery. Apple should rename the MBP because there's almost nothing "Pro" about it anymore - it's barely even "Prosumer".
Why is it that people like you never seem to be the victims of these problems? What number would you put on your own life or the lives of members of your family?
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Why would anyone use BitCoin for tax evasion when they could just incorporate and use the many legal tax loopholes that the government refuses to close?
If you want to attach name(s) to legislation please disclose all the names and parties of the people who proposed the legislation, the majority parties who passed it, and the name of the president that signed it. In this case, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 was proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), and it passed a Republican majority in the House and Senate, and was finally signed by Obama (D). Disclosing this information gives people a fuller picture of who is to praise/blame, especially when both parties are responsible for its passage.
I can think of few things that represent capitalism better than one giant corporation buying another.
The first step to virtually guaranteeing that something happens is to let your guard down.
I already do this (with a gas guzzler, no less) by driving with one hand on the horn the whole time to politely let everyone know they need to get out of my way.
I find this very hard to believe. The new Razer Blade Pro uses two m2 SSDs in RAID0 to achieve extremely high throughput. Benchmarks will settle the score, but I don't think your statement is going to hold up.
While that is very true, it's possible we're witnessing a pattern of decline in the quality of Samsung products. Despite the fact that the products are coming from different divisions, there could be something rotten going on in their corporate culture that is starting to pervade their products. I still appreciate some of their products but I'm going to be keeping a closer eye on them before purchasing anything new from them.
It's a new form of development strategy: Fail Fast, Release Faster!
This is enough to break my complacency of using Google products. I already just finished uploading my files to a cloud server that I'm hosting as an alternative to Google Drive. Does anyone have any recommendations for Chromium-based browsers with optimized privacy and security such as SRWare Iron or Comodo Dragon? How about privacy-based secure e-mail services such as ProtonMail? My last steps will be to switch over to DuckDuckGo for default search and find a custom Android ROM that is frequently updated and allows lots of visual customization.
You know a company is going downward when the headlines focus more on the features they're removing from their products rather than the new features they're providing.
The government loves contractors because it provides someone else to blame when the shit hits the fan. It's like keeping a scapegoat on retainer.
As much as I like some of the senators imposing these questions, let's be honest: no new legislation will be proposed, let alone voted down. Like all of the other congressional inquisitions and hearings that have occurred recently, the senators will jump up and down and screech like a gang of wild monkeys but in the end absolutely nothing will change.
Because h.265 requires hardware decoding to be even moderately watchable and the vast majority of devices that people currently own are not capable of decoding the latest h.265 videos. Netflix could force people to upgrade which would cause them to buy new decoding hardware and the waste you mention would shift from wasted bits on a network connection to wasted hardware in landfills. Unless, of course, there is a standardized way of querying hardware to determine which codecs and maximum resolutions/bitrates are supported by hardware decoders but I'm not aware of such a feature.
And they're making their users pay for it.
Even if you don't buy Apple products, you're still effected by their business decisions. For instance, many laptop manufacturers stopped making a 17" laptop after Apple discontinued the 17" Macbook Pro. Worse yet, many phone manufacturers released phones without headphone jacks simply based on the rumor that the new iPhone wasn't going to have one. Therefore, even though you may not buy Apple products, your choice of features becomes more limited as companies blindly follow Apple's lead.
The reason why people are worried is that you will need to get a new phone at some point. The 6S won't work forever and it certainly won't be supported forever, so that means that at some point within the next few years Apple fans may have to decide between getting an iPhone without a headphone jack or switching to Android to get a phone with one. Worse yet, a number of manufacturers of Android phones are shipping phones without headphone jacks because, for some reason, they insist on following everything Apple does or is rumored to do - even on the most boneheaded decisions.
Security vulnerabilities are discovered and patched all of the time. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time writing extremely meticulous code for an exploit that could be patched by the time you're done writing the exploit code. Combine that with the fact that there's probably a ton of vulnerabilities in a lot of different applications, drivers, and firmware and it probably makes more sense to focus on quantity of exploits rather than quality.
Thank you for confirming that Libertarians live in nutshells. Now if we could just get them to go the next step and admit that they modeled their domiciles after their beliefs.
This is Microsoft's revenge for seeing another operating system on the side during your anniversary!
You can compress the rendered area of your posts by avoiding the unnecessary use of pre-formatted text. :)
Based on this ruling, it sounds like Microsoft has been violating the CFAA with Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10.
One of the main points of engineering is to take something that currently doesn't work and improve upon it to make it work. The problem is that we don't currently know why it won't work which is why it's necessary to start small and then scale up.
Yes, it helps you automate the process of deploying new instances of system components.
No. That is too similar in name and association with Jenkins, an open-source continuous integration tool.
I agree with everything you've said. My 17-inch MBP is almost 10 years old and I refuse to replace it with the newer models that have a smaller screen, fewer ports, and no ability to upgrade the memory, storage, or battery. Apple should rename the MBP because there's almost nothing "Pro" about it anymore - it's barely even "Prosumer".
Why is it that people like you never seem to be the victims of these problems? What number would you put on your own life or the lives of members of your family?