The evidence that the RAT was present but not enabled suggests an attempt at covering tracks. Something that can't be looked at closer because, whoops, her hard drive got wiped.
The photo evidence is easy to fake. She could have even faked it after the investigation began. Or even after the investigation had already concluded against her; as the letter suggests.
Her friends claimed they saw nothing suspicious on her laptop while they were supposed to be taking a class quiz.
The medical rounds evidence was called into question (in the university's letter, but not in the article). Apparently the data she submitted as evidence differed from an earlier hard copy.
I can't say I have enough evidence to call it one way or another, but I think her story sounds suspect.
They didn't say it helped, they said it improved their mood. And you don't need couter studies to declare this to be not scientific.
What they tested:
No music, no ambient sound
Foreign lyric music, no ambient sound
Instrumental music, no ambient sound
Native lyric music, library ambient sound
Problems with this approach:
They had two variables, and didn't isolate them.
They only tested one dimension of the appropriateness of the music (lyric intelligibility). They should have at least tested a sampling of styles as well.
They only tested one type of background noise. And they called it consistent. We already know that consistent background noise has less impact than inconsistent background noise.
There's only one type of task, and it only requires simple, momentary concentration. The effects of music on longer-period concentration or more complex tasks is unmeasured
There's no breakdown of people stated preference versus actual performance.
The study only states that people who reported that music improved their mood had reduced performance in the library noise test, but they blame it on the music (which is curious).
The point is that this study doesn't do a satisfactory job of answering the question it claims to. In fact, it's almost like they had a pet theory and set out to prove it.
An unmaintained road is a great opportunity for profit. Cut big, unavoidable holes at both ends of a residential street (call them unfinished roadwork). When the residents get sick of it and move somewhere else, buy all the property at bargain basement prices. Fix the road, and sell the houses on at a huge markup. Rinse and repeat.
Translations with 'the deep' also include 'waters' later in the same sentence. The Bible doesn't say that the waters were created later, just that they were separated later.
I agree that it would be justified to fine them for that, but that isn't what they were fined for. They were fined for telling customers that the fix for the Error 53 message wasn't covered by waranty because the customer had used a third party repairer. Since Error 53 is a software problem, and the fix was to do with the display, the waranty was not voided under Australian law. And Apple had been warned about this behaviour before.
You don't understand the 'not really buying' concept if you think it is similar to the 'the consumer is the product'.
To use your bicycle analogy; if you were unable to fix your own bike, if you had to buy tires from the manufacturer, and if they refused waranty fixes if you had taped streamers to the handle bars, then it would be similar.
Sure. But this is about an attacker adding HTML outside your content to steal it. The attacker can't add anything inside your content, because when they are modifying the email it's still encrypted. So if you can make your content CDATA, then the attacker can't steal it.
I don't send HTML emails. Am I safe?
No. The attacker can change encrypted text/only emails to HTML emails. You need to disable viewing HTML email to increase protection from EFAIL attacks.
It's easy to protect the encrypted part from this. Add <![CDATA[ to the start and ]]> to the end, and even if someone has HTML and external content fetching switched on, the attackers get nothing.
If you divide an inch by 3 you get 0.333333333333 inches! Whereas, if you divide a cm by 2 you get 1/2 cm or 5mm. Why can't you double-standard, cherry-picking imperial supporters see that!
Additionally, repealing NN will also result in cures for cancer being discovered, a reduction in fatal road accidents, and pigs being able to fly. I can provide evidence if you can.
It's called 'managing by numbers'. Micro-managers would have known the timers were being faked because they would be breathing down the necks of their employees as they did it.
Locating hydro plants is a big issue; and not just because of water flow (you also need to build the dam). However, the largest hydro scheme can generate more than four times as much as the largest coal plant (only two times as much for the fourth largest hydro plant). Of the top 15 largest power producing plants in the world, 11 are hydro and 4 are nuclear; and the nuclear plants are clumped at the end of that list (fuel oil, gas, and coal first appear at #18, #19, and #20 respectively). And there are four countries which produce more than half of their power through hydro. But all that said, I agree it's probably not enough to offset the location problem for most of the world.
Geothermal is a different matter. Location does matter from an efficiency point of view. But the good locations aren't rare or hard to find. The plants themselves don't have large capacities at the moment. But that's probably not the limit of what they can do, just the limit of what we have done. Also, they can be larger than other renewable energy sources and we don't have a problem with those. And geothermal energy is consistent. Why build solar when geothermal can generate the same power, and also do so at night?
There's a difference between "most people who get the measles have been vaccinated against it" and "people who get the vaccination are more (or even equally) likely to get measles".
Suppose 90 people get a vaccination against X which is 90% effective, and 10 people do not get the vaccination and the human immune system is 50% effective. In this case, 9 vaccinated people are likely to get X, and 5 unvaccinated people are likely to get it. But it is still much better to be vaccinated than unvaccinated.
These problems can be summarised into two: energy loses (reduced generation, storage) and energy density.
Energy density in storage is only really a problem in the following situations:
when you're transporting energy in the stored form,
when you have limited space for energy storage, or
when the energy storage is of limited use (because of waste when used up).
For renewables, the first two don't really apply. We don't transport the storage, it's connected to the generation and the grid. Renewables already take up lots of space (generally), and proportionally the storage is less than the generation. The third one applies to both batteries and fossil fuels, but to different extents (batteries can be recharged, but not forever; fossil fuels are single-use). And with the third one, what matters more is not the energy density of a single charge that matters, but over the entire lifetime of the storage medium.
Energy loses are a much more significant concern. The only way we can deal with this at the moment is to over-provision and store (build more panels, combine solar with wind, etc.; and remembering that storage has its own loses). That said, it might be the case in the near future that over-provisioning renewables works out to be more economical than building and supplying a fossil fuel plant regardless of the drawbacks. The South Australian power debacle shows that renewable energy is more economical in good times to an extent which allowed short-sighted people to forget to plan for the bad times.
Solar and wind aren't quite there yet. However, I don't know why people forget there are other alternative renewable power generation methods. Geothermal and hydro power stations are available, reliable, and able to ramp up and down with demand. They have drawbacks, just as everything has drawbacks. But I think they've been brushed aside to our detriment.
The law in Australia is (as far as I understand it) that the original manufacturer is not obliged to fix problems related to a third-party repair under warranty. That is, problems with the third party part, problems with bits which are using the third party part, or problems caused by damage caused by the repair, are all exempt from warranty fixes. But anything that can't be considered one of those is still the manufacturers responsibility. And I'm guessing the courts will consider an OS update bricking a device that's had a third party repair something which Apple should fix.
The only EFTPOS failures I've experienced in the last ten years have been caused by damaged magstripes or removing the card too quickly when I was first using contactless. Both were very easy to solve.
As for the privacy concerns, for small purchases it hardly matters. Medium purchases could already be visible to some extent by irregular withdrawals, and large purchases already require traceable payment forms anyway. A concerned and determined person could conceivably hide most (but not all) transactions from the banks; bit is probably painting a target on their backs for law enforcement similar to the way encrypting your hard drive does. Unencrypted they read your crappy poetry and send you on your way; encrypted they lock you in a room until they have forced you to reveal your password.
I'm not saying we should accept this; I'm saying fighting this particular tech is just a waste of time. We need to pick a better battle.
I play my PS3 infrequently. So often when I want to spend 15min playing a game it wants to force me to do half an hour of updates first. I get around this by disconnecting it from the internet - FTW!
These are the actual guidelines I use to judge what the weather will be for the purpose of clothes selection. As in, 10–20C you need a thick outer layer, 20–30C you only need a thin one, if at all. This is based on an Aussie's sensibilities; so adjust for your local climate. I've seen similar things for Farenheit, but they all seem to be based on 10F and thus have five varieties of mild.
I worked for a company which made handset locating equipment which didn't require the handset's assistance (to support older phones without GPS). All our customers were telecommunications companies who were required to have this capability - this included companies in the US. The only exception to this was a certain US three-letter agency; which we were a little puzzled by, given that to our knowledge they didn't have anything to connect it to.
The FBI originally thought he jumped around Lake Merwin. That's where their search was conducted. The terrain in the drop-zone there is very rugged, and the chance of a bad landing is very likely.
The pilots later said that he jumped over the northern suburbs of Portland/Vancouver. They claimed that this is where they were when they felt the bump of the tail-door snapping back up after Cooper's weight was removed from it. The drop-zone here would be either urban, or (much more likely) farm land. Probably still a bit of a hike, but not as bad as 'wilderness'.
I think he must have survived. Granted, he took the worst parachute; but it was still a serviceable one. And given the drop-zone based on the pilots recollection, if he had perished someone surely must have found him by now.
The last reason is that if he had perished, either in the wilderness that the FBI was searching, or in a neglected bit of the later drop-zone, it is highly unlikely that the three bundles of money could have ended up where they did without someone moving them later. Firstly because (with the exception of Lacamas Creek) the watersheds don't move things that way (Clark County has a very good map of all its watersheds). Secondly, the flooding and dredging histories of the Columbia river make it unlikely that the money was in the water all that time.
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The evidence that the RAT was present but not enabled suggests an attempt at covering tracks. Something that can't be looked at closer because, whoops, her hard drive got wiped.
The photo evidence is easy to fake. She could have even faked it after the investigation began. Or even after the investigation had already concluded against her; as the letter suggests.
Her friends claimed they saw nothing suspicious on her laptop while they were supposed to be taking a class quiz.
The medical rounds evidence was called into question (in the university's letter, but not in the article). Apparently the data she submitted as evidence differed from an earlier hard copy.
I can't say I have enough evidence to call it one way or another, but I think her story sounds suspect.
They didn't say it helped, they said it improved their mood. And you don't need couter studies to declare this to be not scientific.
What they tested:
Problems with this approach:
The point is that this study doesn't do a satisfactory job of answering the question it claims to. In fact, it's almost like they had a pet theory and set out to prove it.
An unmaintained road is a great opportunity for profit. Cut big, unavoidable holes at both ends of a residential street (call them unfinished roadwork). When the residents get sick of it and move somewhere else, buy all the property at bargain basement prices. Fix the road, and sell the houses on at a huge markup. Rinse and repeat.
It was his father's story, but he made it into a book. It's not an uncommon distinction.
Translations with 'the deep' also include 'waters' later in the same sentence. The Bible doesn't say that the waters were created later, just that they were separated later.
I agree that it would be justified to fine them for that, but that isn't what they were fined for. They were fined for telling customers that the fix for the Error 53 message wasn't covered by waranty because the customer had used a third party repairer. Since Error 53 is a software problem, and the fix was to do with the display, the waranty was not voided under Australian law. And Apple had been warned about this behaviour before.
You don't understand the 'not really buying' concept if you think it is similar to the 'the consumer is the product'.
To use your bicycle analogy; if you were unable to fix your own bike, if you had to buy tires from the manufacturer, and if they refused waranty fixes if you had taped streamers to the handle bars, then it would be similar.
Sure. But this is about an attacker adding HTML outside your content to steal it. The attacker can't add anything inside your content, because when they are modifying the email it's still encrypted. So if you can make your content CDATA, then the attacker can't steal it.
I don't send HTML emails. Am I safe?
No. The attacker can change encrypted text/only emails to HTML emails. You need to disable viewing HTML email to increase protection from EFAIL attacks.
It's easy to protect the encrypted part from this. Add <![CDATA[ to the start and ]]> to the end, and even if someone has HTML and external content fetching switched on, the attackers get nothing.
In fairness, Apple Maps did still have the listing, it was just in the wrong place.
Temperature in Celcius: divide by ten and round to an integer; then 0 = freezing cold, 1 = cold, 2 = mild, 3 = hot, 4 = burning hot. Simple.
If you divide an inch by 3 you get 0.333333333333 inches! Whereas, if you divide a cm by 2 you get 1/2 cm or 5mm. Why can't you double-standard, cherry-picking imperial supporters see that!
Additionally, repealing NN will also result in cures for cancer being discovered, a reduction in fatal road accidents, and pigs being able to fly. I can provide evidence if you can.
It's called 'managing by numbers'. Micro-managers would have known the timers were being faked because they would be breathing down the necks of their employees as they did it.
They plan on fixing the cold weather problem by mining bitcoins to heat the phone.
Technically they're paying by listening to advertising.
Locating hydro plants is a big issue; and not just because of water flow (you also need to build the dam). However, the largest hydro scheme can generate more than four times as much as the largest coal plant (only two times as much for the fourth largest hydro plant). Of the top 15 largest power producing plants in the world, 11 are hydro and 4 are nuclear; and the nuclear plants are clumped at the end of that list (fuel oil, gas, and coal first appear at #18, #19, and #20 respectively). And there are four countries which produce more than half of their power through hydro. But all that said, I agree it's probably not enough to offset the location problem for most of the world.
Geothermal is a different matter. Location does matter from an efficiency point of view. But the good locations aren't rare or hard to find. The plants themselves don't have large capacities at the moment. But that's probably not the limit of what they can do, just the limit of what we have done. Also, they can be larger than other renewable energy sources and we don't have a problem with those. And geothermal energy is consistent. Why build solar when geothermal can generate the same power, and also do so at night?
There's a difference between "most people who get the measles have been vaccinated against it" and "people who get the vaccination are more (or even equally) likely to get measles".
Suppose 90 people get a vaccination against X which is 90% effective, and 10 people do not get the vaccination and the human immune system is 50% effective. In this case, 9 vaccinated people are likely to get X, and 5 unvaccinated people are likely to get it. But it is still much better to be vaccinated than unvaccinated.
These problems can be summarised into two: energy loses (reduced generation, storage) and energy density.
Energy density in storage is only really a problem in the following situations:
For renewables, the first two don't really apply. We don't transport the storage, it's connected to the generation and the grid. Renewables already take up lots of space (generally), and proportionally the storage is less than the generation. The third one applies to both batteries and fossil fuels, but to different extents (batteries can be recharged, but not forever; fossil fuels are single-use). And with the third one, what matters more is not the energy density of a single charge that matters, but over the entire lifetime of the storage medium.
Energy loses are a much more significant concern. The only way we can deal with this at the moment is to over-provision and store (build more panels, combine solar with wind, etc.; and remembering that storage has its own loses). That said, it might be the case in the near future that over-provisioning renewables works out to be more economical than building and supplying a fossil fuel plant regardless of the drawbacks. The South Australian power debacle shows that renewable energy is more economical in good times to an extent which allowed short-sighted people to forget to plan for the bad times.
Solar and wind aren't quite there yet. However, I don't know why people forget there are other alternative renewable power generation methods. Geothermal and hydro power stations are available, reliable, and able to ramp up and down with demand. They have drawbacks, just as everything has drawbacks. But I think they've been brushed aside to our detriment.
The law in Australia is (as far as I understand it) that the original manufacturer is not obliged to fix problems related to a third-party repair under warranty. That is, problems with the third party part, problems with bits which are using the third party part, or problems caused by damage caused by the repair, are all exempt from warranty fixes. But anything that can't be considered one of those is still the manufacturers responsibility. And I'm guessing the courts will consider an OS update bricking a device that's had a third party repair something which Apple should fix.
The only EFTPOS failures I've experienced in the last ten years have been caused by damaged magstripes or removing the card too quickly when I was first using contactless. Both were very easy to solve.
As for the privacy concerns, for small purchases it hardly matters. Medium purchases could already be visible to some extent by irregular withdrawals, and large purchases already require traceable payment forms anyway. A concerned and determined person could conceivably hide most (but not all) transactions from the banks; bit is probably painting a target on their backs for law enforcement similar to the way encrypting your hard drive does. Unencrypted they read your crappy poetry and send you on your way; encrypted they lock you in a room until they have forced you to reveal your password.
I'm not saying we should accept this; I'm saying fighting this particular tech is just a waste of time. We need to pick a better battle.
I play my PS3 infrequently. So often when I want to spend 15min playing a game it wants to force me to do half an hour of updates first. I get around this by disconnecting it from the internet - FTW!
Rule of 10s (Celcius):
These are the actual guidelines I use to judge what the weather will be for the purpose of clothes selection. As in, 10–20C you need a thick outer layer, 20–30C you only need a thin one, if at all. This is based on an Aussie's sensibilities; so adjust for your local climate. I've seen similar things for Farenheit, but they all seem to be based on 10F and thus have five varieties of mild.
I worked for a company which made handset locating equipment which didn't require the handset's assistance (to support older phones without GPS). All our customers were telecommunications companies who were required to have this capability - this included companies in the US. The only exception to this was a certain US three-letter agency; which we were a little puzzled by, given that to our knowledge they didn't have anything to connect it to.
The FBI originally thought he jumped around Lake Merwin. That's where their search was conducted. The terrain in the drop-zone there is very rugged, and the chance of a bad landing is very likely.
The pilots later said that he jumped over the northern suburbs of Portland/Vancouver. They claimed that this is where they were when they felt the bump of the tail-door snapping back up after Cooper's weight was removed from it. The drop-zone here would be either urban, or (much more likely) farm land. Probably still a bit of a hike, but not as bad as 'wilderness'.
I think he must have survived. Granted, he took the worst parachute; but it was still a serviceable one. And given the drop-zone based on the pilots recollection, if he had perished someone surely must have found him by now.
The last reason is that if he had perished, either in the wilderness that the FBI was searching, or in a neglected bit of the later drop-zone, it is highly unlikely that the three bundles of money could have ended up where they did without someone moving them later. Firstly because (with the exception of Lacamas Creek) the watersheds don't move things that way (Clark County has a very good map of all its watersheds). Secondly, the flooding and dredging histories of the Columbia river make it unlikely that the money was in the water all that time.
That's just my 2 cents