Actually, they did... Maybe not you, but there are plenty of people who clamoured for "easier" titles, and simultaneously for replay-ability. Easier was accomplished through hand holding (ala "Press Y now or you will die", whoops, you died, let's rewind 15 seconds to the cutscene. And news was, the first of those games sold AMAZINGLY well. And when you are stuck with a fully scripted game, the only way to make replay ability without feeling stale is through adding content. And who wants to write that content test it, and distribute it freely?
Actually, the "computer" count in the article was based on CPUs (x86 Processors from Intel and AMD) manufactured and sold through according to their financials, and made an assumption of one processor per "computer". So, unless you built your desktops upon PowerPC, Sparc or ARM, you've been counted.
And on the phone front, it also refers to "Active Lines of Service" (billed phone numbers). Would be interesting to see the breakdown on a per country basis (even if only the biggies) to see "active lines of service" / "total population" = x
Because thanks to the Terminator movies and the US Air Force's use of the term "drone", the populous now emotionally associates a drone as a fucking scary autonomous killing machine; a Model Airplane... not so much. A UAV, still nothing... So, the thought of some anonymous twenty-something kid going around and flying their own "drones" and nearly killing hundreds of people will resonate emotionally with people and help to create the state of fear that is being fostered by those in power to control the masses.
It doesn't matter that this act is no different than those over the past forty years, nor that it is no different than what damage that can be caused by a bird.
Plus, if said kid's name was even vaguely ethnic or could be made to sound ethnic, do you think that it would still be kept "confidential" or would it be trotted out in the court of public opinion as a "Towel-Headed, 'Murica Hatin' Muslim Terr'rist!"?
The argument was inherently flawed.
By the same argument, are income tax payments "effectively payments" to John Koskinen, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue?
Think of it this way... Sure you *can* use the Amazon App Store on your Android Phone, and even get some Android Apps cheaper than you would on Google Play, however you would need to seek it out and install it yourself versus just using the one that is pre-loaded on your phone.
As such, using the Unreal Store will create immediate visibility to all users, as well as put the onus of distributing and more importantly tracking patch levels and updating the content on Epic instead of the user.
Still, the tech-savvy can just do it themselves and save a few bucks.
Technically, there *is* a backdoor in the sense that Apple signs the ramdisk with their private key. As such, should they build and sign a "data recovery ramdisk" with their private key and supply said software to Law Enforcement (such as when subpoenaed), then one can boot to DFU, load the "data recovery ramdisk", mount the phone as read-only flash that the agency can copy data from it.
Any entity with the private keys control what happens with the data on the device.
Well, on the other hand it's not like the law is like an Android Development Textbook where the contents of said textbook will actually have any relevance next year...
It is a double edged sword. Because one can see the code, there is visibility into the process. Because OpenSSL is such a common tool and is arguably vital to the function of the Internet as we know it, this sort of a bug really is one of those "worst case scenarios" PR wise, as opposed to being cleanly swept under the rug as is possible in the case of many Closed Source 0-day vulnerabilities.
The problem here is that people have been using the argument that Open Source is better because these issues can't happen "because" of the visibility. And the argument "Open Source is inherently safer" has been very heavily damaged by Heartbleed and now ranks up there with "Macs don't get viruses" and "Women are worse drivers".
If this happened in Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle Land this would be "yet another 0-day" and largely ignored by the public. Because it is in an area with such a vocal group of people spouting "Impenetrable" for decades, it all of the sudden becomes quite newsworthy in a way that "yet-another-remote-code-execution-with-privilege-escalation-in-Acrobat-Reader" vulnerability doesn't.
And if you doubt any of this for a moment, have you ever heard the name of the developer who was at fault for introducing a bug into Flash on the local news? Now did you hear the name "Robin Seggelmann" in connection to Heartbleed?
The theory itself states that information of what enters a black hole is itself retained, and due to the time dilation characteristics caused by the extreme gravity, said information would be present for eternity, even after the last hydrogen atom decays and the universe becomes a vast wasteland. While the matter is long gone, the energy remains and thermodynamics teaches us that the two are interchangeable. As such, the parent is making a facetious argument about how should a hard drive be thrown into a black hole, the universe has made a truly perfect backup of the data that is incapable of being destroyed and will itself outlive all matter in the universe.
And as the saying goes, jokes are funnier when they need to be explained.
You mean spending $250 million dollars to restore Endeavor to its original flight worthy condition through the use of original, certified parts so that it can be on display for middle schoolers for their field trips to the Science Center may not be a particularly sound idea when "this ship has been in space dozens of times" would still have them saying WOAH! even if a 30lb retention bolts shown connecting the shuttle to its fuel tank couldn't really hold the sheering force of a launch?
From the same article, I wouldn't really call Apple on the downward slide. They have been selling more tablets than ever, and more than Samsung, Asus, Amazon and Lenovo combined. In fact, all 5 have been growing tremendously Year-over-Year. The difference here is that there has been a significant increase in the "Others" category, all of the other manufacturers who on their own would be considered a rounding error in the report. This is more the case of the Bargain Bin models increasing the size of the market larger than the "Big Boys" care to play in. Example: Samsung isn't rushing out to release a $49 tablet to compete with RCA.
There is this crazy new idea called "wanting to deal with the excess water" should one "just open up the spillways".
The water goes somewhere, after all. Would probably piss off a bunch of home owners in Beverly should their riverfront homes quite suddenly become riverboat homes.
However, in the case of pacemakers it is very possible to cause a bingeminy, trigeminy, or other form of sinus arrhythmia that untreated could ultimately lead to damage of the heart muscle, even for a device operating within its safety limits. Even just by oscillating the gain on the sensing leads could trigger automated defibrillation on devices with the capability (less common).
Water and Sewer are utilities, and thereby regulated.
Internet is an entertainment service, and thereby unregulated.
Telephone service providers are pushing to move their equipment entirely to IP, gaining the "service" classification as it would no longer fit the present definition of a telecommunications network.
The concern in this case is that the public sector is using tax dollars and grants from federal entities to overbuild an existing private network, in turn generating income in the areas that have higher densities at the expense of the less dense areas. This effectively leaves those "unserved" still without service, despite all residents paying for the network via their property taxes.
Should the same thing be done by a new-comer into private industry, done without tax dollars, or would connect all those who wanted it there would not be a problem. Protecting monopolistic behavior is simply the knee-jerk reaction to the story.
Further, as Google's Provo offering is no longer a "public entity" offering, it isn't even subject to the bill.
However, at the same point Google would not have been able to enter the marketplace in Provo should the town not have done the initial heavy lifting.
As someone who has gone through physical therapy on my arm, the thought of very good immediate fine motor control and reliable control within a week of training is incredible. I remember spending weeks trying to reliably touch the tips of my thumb and pinky together. Even now, I have difficulty with my ring and middle fingers doing what they are supposed to unless I have them in the corner of my eye.
The scientists found large amounts of toxic sulfide built up in the muds where the eelgrass grows. The sulfide forms when nutrients from agricultural runoff cause bacteria to flourish. Eelgrass grows radially outward, with older plants in the middle and younger seedlings on the outer rim. Because only the middle ring of mature plants can endure the poisonous sulfide, a near-perfect ring of seagrass forms, the researchers report in the February issue of Marine Biology. While the eelgrass circles make for a remarkable sight and a catalyst for kooky conspiracy theories, the researchers say sulfide from agricultural runoff has become a major problem for seagrass ecosystems worldwide.
Here's an interesting fact: you're not breathing real air. It's too expensive to pump this far down. We just take carbon dioxide out of a room, freshen it up a little, and pump it back in. So you'll be breathing the same room full of air for the rest of your life. I thought that was interesting.
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Actually, they did... Maybe not you, but there are plenty of people who clamoured for "easier" titles, and simultaneously for replay-ability. Easier was accomplished through hand holding (ala "Press Y now or you will die", whoops, you died, let's rewind 15 seconds to the cutscene. And news was, the first of those games sold AMAZINGLY well. And when you are stuck with a fully scripted game, the only way to make replay ability without feeling stale is through adding content. And who wants to write that content test it, and distribute it freely?
Actually, the "computer" count in the article was based on CPUs (x86 Processors from Intel and AMD) manufactured and sold through according to their financials, and made an assumption of one processor per "computer". So, unless you built your desktops upon PowerPC, Sparc or ARM, you've been counted. And on the phone front, it also refers to "Active Lines of Service" (billed phone numbers). Would be interesting to see the breakdown on a per country basis (even if only the biggies) to see "active lines of service" / "total population" = x
Because thanks to the Terminator movies and the US Air Force's use of the term "drone", the populous now emotionally associates a drone as a fucking scary autonomous killing machine; a Model Airplane... not so much. A UAV, still nothing... So, the thought of some anonymous twenty-something kid going around and flying their own "drones" and nearly killing hundreds of people will resonate emotionally with people and help to create the state of fear that is being fostered by those in power to control the masses.
It doesn't matter that this act is no different than those over the past forty years, nor that it is no different than what damage that can be caused by a bird.
Plus, if said kid's name was even vaguely ethnic or could be made to sound ethnic, do you think that it would still be kept "confidential" or would it be trotted out in the court of public opinion as a "Towel-Headed, 'Murica Hatin' Muslim Terr'rist!"?
The argument was inherently flawed.
By the same argument, are income tax payments "effectively payments" to John Koskinen, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue?
Think of it this way... Sure you *can* use the Amazon App Store on your Android Phone, and even get some Android Apps cheaper than you would on Google Play, however you would need to seek it out and install it yourself versus just using the one that is pre-loaded on your phone.
As such, using the Unreal Store will create immediate visibility to all users, as well as put the onus of distributing and more importantly tracking patch levels and updating the content on Epic instead of the user.
Still, the tech-savvy can just do it themselves and save a few bucks.
Technically, there *is* a backdoor in the sense that Apple signs the ramdisk with their private key. As such, should they build and sign a "data recovery ramdisk" with their private key and supply said software to Law Enforcement (such as when subpoenaed), then one can boot to DFU, load the "data recovery ramdisk", mount the phone as read-only flash that the agency can copy data from it.
Any entity with the private keys control what happens with the data on the device.
Well, on the other hand it's not like the law is like an Android Development Textbook where the contents of said textbook will actually have any relevance next year...
It is a double edged sword. Because one can see the code, there is visibility into the process. Because OpenSSL is such a common tool and is arguably vital to the function of the Internet as we know it, this sort of a bug really is one of those "worst case scenarios" PR wise, as opposed to being cleanly swept under the rug as is possible in the case of many Closed Source 0-day vulnerabilities.
The problem here is that people have been using the argument that Open Source is better because these issues can't happen "because" of the visibility. And the argument "Open Source is inherently safer" has been very heavily damaged by Heartbleed and now ranks up there with "Macs don't get viruses" and "Women are worse drivers".
If this happened in Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle Land this would be "yet another 0-day" and largely ignored by the public. Because it is in an area with such a vocal group of people spouting "Impenetrable" for decades, it all of the sudden becomes quite newsworthy in a way that "yet-another-remote-code-execution-with-privilege-escalation-in-Acrobat-Reader" vulnerability doesn't.
And if you doubt any of this for a moment, have you ever heard the name of the developer who was at fault for introducing a bug into Flash on the local news? Now did you hear the name "Robin Seggelmann" in connection to Heartbleed?
The theory itself states that information of what enters a black hole is itself retained, and due to the time dilation characteristics caused by the extreme gravity, said information would be present for eternity, even after the last hydrogen atom decays and the universe becomes a vast wasteland. While the matter is long gone, the energy remains and thermodynamics teaches us that the two are interchangeable. As such, the parent is making a facetious argument about how should a hard drive be thrown into a black hole, the universe has made a truly perfect backup of the data that is incapable of being destroyed and will itself outlive all matter in the universe.
And as the saying goes, jokes are funnier when they need to be explained.
Whole economy, evenly distributed
14 Trillion Dollars / 7 Billion People = 2 Thousand Dollars.
Whole economy, distributed to one billion people
14 Trillion Dollars / 1 Billion People = 14 Thousand Dollars.
It wasn't solely his work.
You mean spending $250 million dollars to restore Endeavor to its original flight worthy condition through the use of original, certified parts so that it can be on display for middle schoolers for their field trips to the Science Center may not be a particularly sound idea when "this ship has been in space dozens of times" would still have them saying WOAH! even if a 30lb retention bolts shown connecting the shuttle to its fuel tank couldn't really hold the sheering force of a launch?
Obligatory SMBC
From the same article, I wouldn't really call Apple on the downward slide. They have been selling more tablets than ever, and more than Samsung, Asus, Amazon and Lenovo combined. In fact, all 5 have been growing tremendously Year-over-Year. The difference here is that there has been a significant increase in the "Others" category, all of the other manufacturers who on their own would be considered a rounding error in the report. This is more the case of the Bargain Bin models increasing the size of the market larger than the "Big Boys" care to play in. Example: Samsung isn't rushing out to release a $49 tablet to compete with RCA.
There is this crazy new idea called "wanting to deal with the excess water" should one "just open up the spillways".
The water goes somewhere, after all. Would probably piss off a bunch of home owners in Beverly should their riverfront homes quite suddenly become riverboat homes.
And next time someone comes in and robs them blind, will the perpetrators be buttpirates?
However, in the case of pacemakers it is very possible to cause a bingeminy, trigeminy, or other form of sinus arrhythmia that untreated could ultimately lead to damage of the heart muscle, even for a device operating within its safety limits. Even just by oscillating the gain on the sensing leads could trigger automated defibrillation on devices with the capability (less common).
Definition.
Water and Sewer are utilities, and thereby regulated.
Internet is an entertainment service, and thereby unregulated.
Telephone service providers are pushing to move their equipment entirely to IP, gaining the "service" classification as it would no longer fit the present definition of a telecommunications network.
The concern in this case is that the public sector is using tax dollars and grants from federal entities to overbuild an existing private network, in turn generating income in the areas that have higher densities at the expense of the less dense areas. This effectively leaves those "unserved" still without service, despite all residents paying for the network via their property taxes.
Should the same thing be done by a new-comer into private industry, done without tax dollars, or would connect all those who wanted it there would not be a problem. Protecting monopolistic behavior is simply the knee-jerk reaction to the story.
Further, as Google's Provo offering is no longer a "public entity" offering, it isn't even subject to the bill.
However, at the same point Google would not have been able to enter the marketplace in Provo should the town not have done the initial heavy lifting.
As someone who has gone through physical therapy on my arm, the thought of very good immediate fine motor control and reliable control within a week of training is incredible. I remember spending weeks trying to reliably touch the tips of my thumb and pinky together. Even now, I have difficulty with my ring and middle fingers doing what they are supposed to unless I have them in the corner of my eye.
And to complete the summary Copy / Paste:
The scientists found large amounts of toxic sulfide built up in the muds where the eelgrass grows. The sulfide forms when nutrients from agricultural runoff cause bacteria to flourish. Eelgrass grows radially outward, with older plants in the middle and younger seedlings on the outer rim. Because only the middle ring of mature plants can endure the poisonous sulfide, a near-perfect ring of seagrass forms, the researchers report in the February issue of Marine Biology. While the eelgrass circles make for a remarkable sight and a catalyst for kooky conspiracy theories, the researchers say sulfide from agricultural runoff has become a major problem for seagrass ecosystems worldwide.
Here's an interesting fact: you're not breathing real air. It's too expensive to pump this far down. We just take carbon dioxide out of a room, freshen it up a little, and pump it back in. So you'll be breathing the same room full of air for the rest of your life. I thought that was interesting.
Repeat after me: I misinterpreted the rules.
No one. The current argument is that a hyperlink to infringing work "advocates infringement".
How about this for a catchy headline: "0.2% of US Students Take AP Computer Science Test."