I have never heard any beep, nor seen any popup. We apparently don't watch the same shows or you have a newer machine. As for the Amazon UI, skipping absolutely sucks without being able to see or hear what you are skipping over. I think the Youtube software is similar. All this is likely due to not storing/queing the stream locally to permit fast enough access to the video frame contents.
Forgot to mention, the Tivo implementation of fast forward for Amazon content is a non-starter. You can not see what you are skipping over, so you never know where to stop. Epic fail if I need to skip commercials. For now the prime video are commercialless, but that is bound to change when some exec starts to smell money.
Success? That all depends on whether it comes with the "skip button" enabled or not.
The only reason I own a Tivo if for the skip/ff button feature. Even though it only skips N-seconds rather than N-commercials it still works reasonably well enough that I don't stop watching altogether. I never watch anything live, because then I can't skip or fast forward past the social cancer they call advertising.
The TV can't phone home without the Internet. If so, how are the paying advertisers going to know if you are going to the fridge every time their commercial comes on? That would be un-american to deny them their meta-data wouldn't it? /s
I could not believe the User Agreement for software updates actually thought I might press "Accept" to this, which I never did, but still get software updates. Just to be sure they keep up their side of that User Agreement, Tape and glue work just fine.
Nice list. Too bad TSG doesn't actually own System V or SVR4. They own a defunct business for "administrating" the licensing program for the actual owner of System V, and since nobody is actually buying licenses to that ancient OS there is no money to be made in that "administrative" business. They have no standing in this case, and IBM still has counter charges to pound this peg into the ground. There is no point to this case continuing at all.
Its just that they call it by another name, "The Stock Market". The best part is its not even rigged in favor of the house! Just try getting those odds in a Trump casino.
btw - What are the odds that Trump wants a piece of this action?
Great, by the looks of it, Irma and I are both scheduled to land in FL at about the same time. Something tells me this isn't going to be as great of a vacation as I my wife had anticipated. Well, at least it won't be boring.
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When you collect data from sites that cater to certain kinds of "business" people (e.g Microsoft, Yahoo, Forbes, Adobe, Fortune, Wall Street Journal), while others don't visit, then what you get is a very biased sample set. If I cared one iota about Market Share I would probably be running Windows(tm). Those geeks that blow away the OS that comes with the machine and build their own systems from scratch are much less likely to be interested in their business news stories. The would likely be completely unrepresented if not for the Mozilla Foundation being included, but then they actually care about privacy, so what do they actually collect? More likely, the 3% are the ones that mistakenly clicked a poorly identified link to a business news story and accidentally got counted.
I could not agree more. Lets face it. Oracle is where they send good products to die. Its the legacy of Larry Ellison's death grip on newly acquired technology. Whether its milking it for all its worth, or for deliberately ensuring the competitors product dies a painful death, its all pretty much the same result.
if it happens to be a software based product that can fork without a lawsuit following close behind, then it might just survive that bad experience. Unfortunately there is seldom any victory celebration after that escape due to the fragmentation of all the Open Source developer resources that often follows. To be "blessed" by Oracles attention is to die a painful death.
I do give Kaspersky a lot of credit for standing their ground. Unfortunately the patent was not invalidated in the process and the troll can legally continue to extort money from smaller and less successful companies. Since the case was settled out of court, the court judge never had a chance to rule and legally invalidate the patent. Trolls don't just go away when they still smell money. Its a real shame Kaspersky couldn't take it one step further and put them out of business completely.
Abell 520 is yet another instance, where the bizarre physics of the so called Dark Matter from two colliding galaxies turns to stationary filaments of gravitational lensing rather than clustering along with the normal baryonic matter that kept passing through. Doing this would require not only new physics but also lots of energy to stop dead in its tracks and make a left hand turn for no reason what so ever. The Elephant in the room is tap-dancing and nobody is even paying attention!
To stop this kind of exfiltration you can install a VPN Firewall application that allows you to explicitly allow/deny network access to any app on your phone. i currently use one called "NoRoot Firewall" and it also helps to block Adware apps from retrieving their adware info is the app itself doesn't need network access. It keeps a log of what applications connect to, and that can be used to permit or deny per app.
The "Connects" app will let you see where all your apps are connecting too on a map and you can then go back to the Firewall to deny access to particular ip destinations, per application, that you think should not be allowed. Anything to Russia or China would be on my immediate No list.
MY one gripe is that without root privileges the NoRoot Firewall is not necessarily the first app to start when your phone boots and Wifi is enabled.
This may be counter intuitive to the "scientists" that conducted this study, but...
E-Cigarettes Linked To Helping People [Start] Smoking
I suggest making a study on how many young people start smoking with E-cigarettes, and subtract the cessation rate from that number. If people start smoking because of the perceived 'more healthy' aspect of the technology then the overall 'benefit' is a negative correlation.
So, once Comcast gets control of your real-time in progress telemetry data they will have a completely new way to *break* more than your kneecaps? Thinking of skipping that monthly Comcast bill just to pay for something else like food or a roof over your head? Somehow this does not sound like a good thing (tm).
What applies the arresting breaks in the vertical motion? One of the major safety features of modern elevators was invented way back in the 1800's. When the tension of the cable is removed, breaks are automatically engaged to keep the elevator from moving. Without a physical cable this needs to be electronic and will be prone to failure along with the same electronics that controls the magnets lift. No lift, no breaks? Or is there a power and controller redundancy built into its emergency system?
FakeBook programmers discover the difference between AND and OR. News at 11:00... /s
As for "holding back information", FakeBook is one of the best at keeping information off the Internet. Without an account they don't let you see much of anything. But then, I don't want my logical mind polluted with all the fake news stories my family keeps sending me from there. FakeBook would do well to stop blocking "BS Detector" browser plugins, and instead embrace it and make it mandatory.
One big problem with finger print scanning on mobile is that every mobile handset comes with your finger prints all over the phone. All one has to do is find and lift the required fingerprint (right thumb usually) and create a fake positive mask to pass over the finger print scanner. Your average joe might not be able to do this, but its not out of the reach for even a street gang to acquire what is needed. All they need is to just beat some guy over the head, take their phone using gloves, lift the prints, unlock the phone, go to town buying everything and emptying all bank accounts, then toss the phone in a lake some where. This is not rocket science.
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Stealing their retina is a little harder, but then the authentication matching blob is just data that by definition must reside somewhere on the phone outside of the encrypted container since it is used prior to authentication and decryption key generation. A little closer to rocket science, but still doable for someone with the right forensic equipment.
Cloud seeding used to be used to cause rain, which of course depletes the cloud of its vapor that reflects light. It seems to me somebody's computer model needs some slight adjustment here, because it can't work both ways.
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On the other hand, how much CO2 will go into the atmosphere trying to force enough salt into the atmosphere? Where is the trade off point on the effect vs damage from grinding, shipping, and blowing that salt hard enough into the sky? Clearly the whole process and its infrastructure must be taken into account to calculate any benefit.
Suggestion, power it all with the wind. The hotter it gets the more wind energy that could be use to grind, transport, and blow the salt. The more salt, the more clouds(?), and the less that photovoltaic energy that will be available because of the desired cloud cover.
Maybe in a few years Trump will let us put a couple of wind turbines on the base foundation left over where his Miami hotel once stood? Once Miami is under water the city will not be turning into the next Venice dream vacation spot. Might as well put it to good use. We could start building the hurricane resistant foundations now and be completely ready for all that free energy coming our way. Among other things, Trump solved the US energy problem! Yea!! This is exactly why we hired him./s
I had just been told by my collage adviser that I would not be able to graduate as planned because of one mandatory course which had not been taken. The reason was because it had a prerequisite that I as unable to get into. Five semesters in a row I had tried to get into the course but had been consistently bumped for other Engineering or Math majors. That prerequisite was "Introduction to Computers". So, I had already been screwed by this thing called a 'computer', and yet I didn't even know what they were or what they were for.
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I happened to be teaching myself electronics in my spare time so I thought to look for a kit I could build on a limited budget. Just at that same point Sinclair put a kit on the market for a mere $200 (1980's money) which I was able scrape together. After receiving and building my kit I went knocking on doors down my dorm hall until I found one of the students that managed to get into that course (i.e. they bumped me from that course), and I dragged them down to my dorm room pointed at it and asked "what does it do?". He then showed me how to make it print out my name three times in a loop, and then left. I then wired my own keyboard by reverse engineering the membrane keyboard wiring, and built a 48k memory and expansion I/O expansion modules for it, and never looked back.
. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
I did graduate, after forcing the University to accept alternate courses as credit, because it was their own policy that caused the problem, not by my choice. After graduation I still had the computer bug and pursued further education to better understand microprocessors. Now I have a MS in computer science and work in a Physics Laboratory as an analyst.
I believe you are spot on with that assessment. I had watched in dismay as my wife, an otherwise intelligent and well educated woman, fell lock stock and barrel for all the emotional rhetoric having no logical foundation during this past 2016 election. She had been reading all the rogue fake-news/alternate-fact websites and did absolutely no fact checking of anything they said, because that fact-checked answer would be contrary to what she wanted to believe. She listened to all the emotions and then closed her mind to any other possibility, and even stopped watching the nightly news that was more or less balanced reporting. Admittedly several stations were not very balanced, but then any publicity tended to be good publicity if you could prove you really didn't care what others thought about you and instead stuck to the emotions rather than facts or actual proposal of plans. The more indeterminate you were, with your expression of your intent, to put a plan together, the more the public at large liked the plan.
The bottom line is emotion won over any level or fact and reason. Nearly all the emotionally delivered [non-]promises were either impossible to implement (financially, politically, or even based on actual physics) or were not even founded upon documented facts, but rather just ill conceived partial thoughts, pulled from an 'A', far away in some alternate universe. No amount of logic or reason can prevail when someone becomes so emotionally entwined as to deny the simple fact that reality, as a thing, might possibly exist somewhere on this planet.
Step right up. Get your "super big" "completely impregnable" wall here, and we will solve all your problems! Never mind that man behind the curtain! [e.g. If you do get the wall as promised by the opulent snake-oil salesman, you also get the shaft. You are definitely paying for it, every penny, in the form of higher prices, not the Mexicans. One would think a Billionaire would understand simple economics. As an extra "free-be" we can throw in a little something to make that deal even sweeter, "all the US wildlife on this side of the river get to die of thirst, without the ability to get to the river". Ding, Ding, Ding! Give that little girl a dolly! Under this current "plan" we also stand to save lots of money on wildlife restoration programs, because there might not be anything left to save in the arid desert regions. Meanwhile the Mexicans just continue to climb over the existing wall, digging tunnels under it, or possibly shift to spending their normal smuggler handling fee instead on a standby airplane ticket for a "fun-packed-vacation" to the US, and just burn the passport/evidence and forget to go home. One positive benefit of the wall building project will likely be lots of on the job training for the Mexicans, who will likely be hired at minimum wage (or below) to actually build it.]
Well, If anyone has problems sleeping at night I have a one month supply of something that can help.
. For expanding knowledge at Work:
Compiler Design and Construction
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Knowledge and Representation
Introduction to Quantum Computers
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Fourth Edition
Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge
Representations of Commonsense Knowledge (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Representation and Reasoning)
Parallel and Constraint Logic Programming: An Introduction to Logic, Parallelism and Constraints
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming
The Engineering of Knowledge-Based Systems
Introduction to Expert Systems (International Computer Science Series)
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, 2nd (The Pws Series in Computer Science)
For personal Interest:
Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica: And Programming with the Wolfram Language
Mathematical Methods Using Mathematica®: For Students of Physics and Related Fields (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics)
Mathematica for Theoretical Physics: Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, and Fractals
An Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology
Gravitation And Cosmology: Principles And Applications Of The General Theory Of Relativity
A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity
Applications of Tensor Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
TENSORS made easy with SOLVED PROBLEMS
Mathematica Navigator: Mathematics, Statistics and Graphics, Third Edition
Mathematica for Physics (2nd Edition)
Just because I'm curious about why there is so much that needs to be known these days.
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
For some reason I can never quite find enough time to get to that last set.
Apparently not changing an existing "policy", that costs zero dollars to maintain, is just too "expensive", considering that the said policy does not provide any cash revenue stream to the current establishment. At least in throwing that policy out the window the establishment will soon see the money start moving again, first out of our pockets, into the paid-for services owners pockets, before a small portion of it is diverted into the politicians own pockets. This is how they "balance" deficit in DC these days, as we now understand things. Too bad its not the US deficit that is being balanced.
The problem this "solution" seems to solve is only Sqrt[-1]
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I have never heard any beep, nor seen any popup. We apparently don't watch the same shows or you have a newer machine. As for the Amazon UI, skipping absolutely sucks without being able to see or hear what you are skipping over. I think the Youtube software is similar. All this is likely due to not storing/queing the stream locally to permit fast enough access to the video frame contents.
Forgot to mention, the Tivo implementation of fast forward for Amazon content is a non-starter. You can not see what you are skipping over, so you never know where to stop. Epic fail if I need to skip commercials. For now the prime video are commercialless, but that is bound to change when some exec starts to smell money.
The only reason I own a Tivo if for the skip/ff button feature. Even though it only skips N-seconds rather than N-commercials it still works reasonably well enough that I don't stop watching altogether. I never watch anything live, because then I can't skip or fast forward past the social cancer they call advertising.
I could not believe the User Agreement for software updates actually thought I might press "Accept" to this, which I never did, but still get software updates. Just to be sure they keep up their side of that User Agreement, Tape and glue work just fine.
Nice list. Too bad TSG doesn't actually own System V or SVR4. They own a defunct business for "administrating" the licensing program for the actual owner of System V, and since nobody is actually buying licenses to that ancient OS there is no money to be made in that "administrative" business. They have no standing in this case, and IBM still has counter charges to pound this peg into the ground. There is no point to this case continuing at all.
btw - What are the odds that Trump wants a piece of this action?
Great, by the looks of it, Irma and I are both scheduled to land in FL at about the same time. Something tells me this isn't going to be as great of a vacation as I my wife had anticipated. Well, at least it won't be boring.
When you collect data from sites that cater to certain kinds of "business" people (e.g Microsoft, Yahoo, Forbes, Adobe, Fortune, Wall Street Journal), while others don't visit, then what you get is a very biased sample set. If I cared one iota about Market Share I would probably be running Windows(tm). Those geeks that blow away the OS that comes with the machine and build their own systems from scratch are much less likely to be interested in their business news stories. The would likely be completely unrepresented if not for the Mozilla Foundation being included, but then they actually care about privacy, so what do they actually collect? More likely, the 3% are the ones that mistakenly clicked a poorly identified link to a business news story and accidentally got counted.
if it happens to be a software based product that can fork without a lawsuit following close behind, then it might just survive that bad experience. Unfortunately there is seldom any victory celebration after that escape due to the fragmentation of all the Open Source developer resources that often follows. To be "blessed" by Oracles attention is to die a painful death.
I do give Kaspersky a lot of credit for standing their ground. Unfortunately the patent was not invalidated in the process and the troll can legally continue to extort money from smaller and less successful companies. Since the case was settled out of court, the court judge never had a chance to rule and legally invalidate the patent. Trolls don't just go away when they still smell money. Its a real shame Kaspersky couldn't take it one step further and put them out of business completely.
Abell 520 is yet another instance, where the bizarre physics of the so called Dark Matter from two colliding galaxies turns to stationary filaments of gravitational lensing rather than clustering along with the normal baryonic matter that kept passing through. Doing this would require not only new physics but also lots of energy to stop dead in its tracks and make a left hand turn for no reason what so ever. The Elephant in the room is tap-dancing and nobody is even paying attention!
The "Connects" app will let you see where all your apps are connecting too on a map and you can then go back to the Firewall to deny access to particular ip destinations, per application, that you think should not be allowed. Anything to Russia or China would be on my immediate No list.
MY one gripe is that without root privileges the NoRoot Firewall is not necessarily the first app to start when your phone boots and Wifi is enabled.
If the Russians say its Ok then surely Trump must have approved it.
/s
E-Cigarettes Linked To Helping People [Start] Smoking
I suggest making a study on how many young people start smoking with E-cigarettes, and subtract the cessation rate from that number. If people start smoking because of the perceived 'more healthy' aspect of the technology then the overall 'benefit' is a negative correlation.
So, once Comcast gets control of your real-time in progress telemetry data they will have a completely new way to *break* more than your kneecaps? Thinking of skipping that monthly Comcast bill just to pay for something else like food or a roof over your head? Somehow this does not sound like a good thing (tm).
What applies the arresting breaks in the vertical motion? One of the major safety features of modern elevators was invented way back in the 1800's. When the tension of the cable is removed, breaks are automatically engaged to keep the elevator from moving. Without a physical cable this needs to be electronic and will be prone to failure along with the same electronics that controls the magnets lift. No lift, no breaks? Or is there a power and controller redundancy built into its emergency system?
As for "holding back information", FakeBook is one of the best at keeping information off the Internet. Without an account they don't let you see much of anything. But then, I don't want my logical mind polluted with all the fake news stories my family keeps sending me from there. FakeBook would do well to stop blocking "BS Detector" browser plugins, and instead embrace it and make it mandatory.
/s
Stealing their retina is a little harder, but then the authentication matching blob is just data that by definition must reside somewhere on the phone outside of the encrypted container since it is used prior to authentication and decryption key generation. A little closer to rocket science, but still doable for someone with the right forensic equipment.
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On the other hand, how much CO2 will go into the atmosphere trying to force enough salt into the atmosphere? Where is the trade off point on the effect vs damage from grinding, shipping, and blowing that salt hard enough into the sky? Clearly the whole process and its infrastructure must be taken into account to calculate any benefit.
Suggestion, power it all with the wind. The hotter it gets the more wind energy that could be use to grind, transport, and blow the salt. The more salt, the more clouds(?), and the less that photovoltaic energy that will be available because of the desired cloud cover.
Maybe in a few years Trump will let us put a couple of wind turbines on the base foundation left over where his Miami hotel once stood? Once Miami is under water the city will not be turning into the next Venice dream vacation spot. Might as well put it to good use. We could start building the hurricane resistant foundations now and be completely ready for all that free energy coming our way. Among other things, Trump solved the US energy problem! Yea!! This is exactly why we hired him. /s
I happened to be teaching myself electronics in my spare time so I thought to look for a kit I could build on a limited budget. Just at that same point Sinclair put a kit on the market for a mere $200 (1980's money) which I was able scrape together. After receiving and building my kit I went knocking on doors down my dorm hall until I found one of the students that managed to get into that course (i.e. they bumped me from that course), and I dragged them down to my dorm room pointed at it and asked "what does it do?". He then showed me how to make it print out my name three times in a loop, and then left. I then wired my own keyboard by reverse engineering the membrane keyboard wiring, and built a 48k memory and expansion I/O expansion modules for it, and never looked back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I did graduate, after forcing the University to accept alternate courses as credit, because it was their own policy that caused the problem, not by my choice. After graduation I still had the computer bug and pursued further education to better understand microprocessors. Now I have a MS in computer science and work in a Physics Laboratory as an analyst.
The bottom line is emotion won over any level or fact and reason. Nearly all the emotionally delivered [non-]promises were either impossible to implement (financially, politically, or even based on actual physics) or were not even founded upon documented facts, but rather just ill conceived partial thoughts, pulled from an 'A', far away in some alternate universe. No amount of logic or reason can prevail when someone becomes so emotionally entwined as to deny the simple fact that reality, as a thing, might possibly exist somewhere on this planet.
Step right up. Get your "super big" "completely impregnable" wall here, and we will solve all your problems! Never mind that man behind the curtain! [e.g. If you do get the wall as promised by the opulent snake-oil salesman, you also get the shaft. You are definitely paying for it, every penny, in the form of higher prices, not the Mexicans. One would think a Billionaire would understand simple economics. As an extra "free-be" we can throw in a little something to make that deal even sweeter, "all the US wildlife on this side of the river get to die of thirst, without the ability to get to the river". Ding, Ding, Ding! Give that little girl a dolly! Under this current "plan" we also stand to save lots of money on wildlife restoration programs, because there might not be anything left to save in the arid desert regions. Meanwhile the Mexicans just continue to climb over the existing wall, digging tunnels under it, or possibly shift to spending their normal smuggler handling fee instead on a standby airplane ticket for a "fun-packed-vacation" to the US, and just burn the passport/evidence and forget to go home. One positive benefit of the wall building project will likely be lots of on the job training for the Mexicans, who will likely be hired at minimum wage (or below) to actually build it.]
For expanding knowledge at Work:
Compiler Design and Construction
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Knowledge and Representation
Introduction to Quantum Computers
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Fourth Edition
Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge
Representations of Commonsense Knowledge (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Representation and Reasoning)
Parallel and Constraint Logic Programming: An Introduction to Logic, Parallelism and Constraints
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming
The Engineering of Knowledge-Based Systems
Introduction to Expert Systems (International Computer Science Series)
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, 2nd (The Pws Series in Computer Science)
For personal Interest:
Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica: And Programming with the Wolfram Language
Mathematical Methods Using Mathematica®: For Students of Physics and Related Fields (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics)
Mathematica for Theoretical Physics: Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, and Fractals
An Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology
Gravitation And Cosmology: Principles And Applications Of The General Theory Of Relativity
A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity
Applications of Tensor Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
TENSORS made easy with SOLVED PROBLEMS
Mathematica Navigator: Mathematics, Statistics and Graphics, Third Edition
Mathematica for Physics (2nd Edition)
Just because I'm curious about why there is so much that needs to be known these days.
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
For some reason I can never quite find enough time to get to that last set.
The problem this "solution" seems to solve is only Sqrt[-1]
Serious question. What did Microsoft screw up so badly that nobody ever upgraded to a "better" (?) or more secure server?