Please do not read the linked article. It is, at best, a scattered collection of recent events concerning Apple's moves in India.
There is no illuminating insight or commentary.
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There is no illuminating insight or commentary.
1) Provide our dear politicians the satisfaction that they "Did something" - Security theater is very useful during election times (Tough on Crime et al)
2)Provide a convenient excuse to expand the govt. ability to dictate yet another aspect of people's normal lives. The govt. now has another tool to harass "undesirables" - simply put their name on a "No fly", "No Train" , "No $SomeOtherThing" list and have their TSA buddies enforce it. Or have the "undesirables" be pulled aside for Random screenings every single time [1].
[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/citizenfour-filmm...
This is the real purpose of the TSA. Your safety or saving lives is irrelevant.
215 Miles Range
with 0-60 in 6secs,
Seats 5 will have autodrive tech
all for $35,000
Deliveries begin end of 2017 (Hopefully)
This is truly a mass market full electric car. We may be seeing something on the lines of the iPhone - a category busting product.
So the question remains: Yes Free and/or Webmail are bad - which one is the LEAST bad from a privacy & security perspective?
The NSA has [most likely] found a way to penetrate Apple/Google/MS/FB for specific targets i.e. they can get the info on any specific person/group covertly. The attack surface is just too large - TAO, Zero-Days, Insider threats, Financial threats, etc. The problem with that is things like needing "Parallel Construction [1]" to legally prosecute.
What the FBI is now doing is using a recent horrible tragedy to force SV companies to establish a precedent. Make no mistake, this has been long time coming. The Feds want to set a precedent both legal and 'cultural'. Ultimately Apple might cave, but the fact that they are raising a stink is very good news. Time for other heavyweights to join the chorus.
[1] http://thefreethoughtproject.com/parallel-construction-law-e...
The sheer arrogance with with Israel operates is just something else. They seem to to believe that no action they take will ever be questioned or lead to any blowback.
The almost total control of US Foreign policy that they have now makes me think that the Iran deal being operationalized was nothing sort of a coup for Pres. Obama.
If I were a conspiracy nut, I would be looking very closely at how those two US naval boats drifted that close to an Iranian base on the eve of the agreement coming into force.
You can write Horrid examples in any Elegant Language and conversely you can give elegant examples in Brainfuck. The person(s) writing the Java example fell into the classic Java trap that mid-level Java folks fall into. Namely that trying to follow SOLID while writing an "Hello World" Distributed Java example.
They lost sight of the fact that the end product is supposed to be an EXAMPLE. This is why the senior devs (Java or otherwise) make the big bucks. Not because they can write complex hairy code but precisely because they understand when NOT to do it (almost always - YAGNI).
Windows Max - 1,108 MiB
OSX Max - 1,694 MiB
Something Funny is happening with OSX to spike the memory usage to those levels.
An all-you-can eat option: $10/Month - Read any news, blog, whatnot, follow anyone, tweet to anyone, upload anykind of media
A-la-cart: pay 0.01$ after reading the 140 character summary for full article access, pay 0.05$ for full tweet stream access to some really useful accounts, etc
Free: Every fourth tweet is an ad, You get only previews of articles, and only a portion of the Tweetstream of really useful content.
Twitter can then kick-back some dough to the content publishers.
Twitter maintains and controls the payment info already anyway. If they get ambitious they can hook into buying and selling as well.
Which such a firm grasp on pushing the "envelope" one wonders what other BS is he peddling.
If you think these guys were using shady and scummy tactics before to spam you and steal your contacts, what do you think they are going to do when their share price sinks? Suddenly reform and stop the borderline-illegal stuff?
LinkedIn will get even more aggressive at monetization. So expect even more of:
1) Random clicks that let you "invite" everyone in your address book
2) Incessant daily nag e-mails - "Complete your profile"
3) Blatant Man-in-the-Middle attacks for stuff you browse on your mobile
4) Data harvesting and selling even more stuff about you
5) etc, etc, etc
If ever there was a market ready to be "disrupted" this is it. Google could have done this with G+, Twitter can do this today with proper reorientation, Heck FB could wipe the floor with these jokers (WhatsApp could too).
In a lot of Aging related research tinkering, very often there are steep costs to improving life-spans - increased rates of Cancer. See anytime you mess with the reason a Cell lives or dies due to ageing, you are risking higher Cancer rates. The fact that this treatment both improves life-spans and "delays cancer" is indeed very promising. Now hopefully the transmission pathways hold true in Humans...
But this should not distract from the fact the there needs to be a substantive debate about the merits/otherwise of their Free Basics initiative.
In a country like India where millions of people have ZERO access to the full internet, any effort that provides ANY access - however limited and curated - should not the shouted down by a vocal subgroup.
If after a meaningful debate the conclusion is that it is better to hope for eventual full access with zero current access(!) rather than instant limited access then so be it, but Facebook is not helping its cause with these stupid shenanigans.
No execs (or anybody else) go to Jail
Continues to do business as usual
Pays a small fraction of its profits in fines (but gets to keep the multi-billions of tax-payer money under various govt. programs)
Admits to no wrong doing
Basically a speeding-ticket that gets dismissed when you pony up the cash after being caught drunk driving with dead body stuck on your fender.
Please stop spreading the FUD that they adon't count
Instead, this political, vindictive creature http://wgbhnews.org/post/carmen-ortiz-spotlight-under-fire and her nasty acolytes in search of a high profile "Scalp" pushed him over the edge.
A terrible waste and a horrible use (misuse) of prosecutorial discretion.
Open new tab-> in address bar start typing some previously visited site->list of suggestions appears-> use down arrow key to highlight first one->HIT Enter
NOTHING Happens. Very interesting that a basic usecase does not work
1) Simple UI (for simple usecases) 2) Easy setup on single node or multi-node scenarios 3)Automation capabilities
Unfortunately there are some gaps that make it just enough of a pain to really take up in a Production 24x7 env.
1) In a distributed setup, there are very minimal node management capabilities unless you manually integrate with say Zookeeper or something.
2) the plugins for backing up and restoring configurations are "lacking" to put it politely
3) Very hard to change the Master machine in a master slave set-up
4)etc etc
So while Jenkins is a like the Swiss army knife for CI be careful that you don't take it to a (multi-node production) Gunfight - to stretch the analogy.
Now there will be predictable sabre ratting and retaliation from Russia - they do not want this to calm down...not really.
Now a somewhat massive issue forces a recall...Traditional Car Makers have fixed ways (with well known issues) to deal with stuff like this. I am genuinely curious if Tesla can "innovate" again.
I found the reliance on keeping to the 1000 most commonly used words to be actually fairly painful to read thru to the end and even harder to understand.
Perhaps "Relativity as explained to a 6 year old" might make it more accessible. A 6 year old has a vocabulary of ~5000 to 10000 words (for reference) and being able to take these "verbal shortcuts" aka words would make for better understanding.
These programs will be used and are being used to monitor and arrest domestic radicals, support foreign espionage for American economic interests, etc much more than any terrorist prevention:
In order of priority:
1) Target "Occupy wallstreet", G20 protests, Greenpeace etc
2) Target foreign govts & corporations for economic gain
3) Target Radicals in foreign countries that oppose US interests (some of these could very well be terrorists also)
4) Actual terrorists
So if we keep using the wrong metric to measure success then obviously "Mass surveillance" has failed.
The Director of the CIA wasted no time blaming Snowden for the Paris attacks [1] - dismissing all concerns as "hand-wringing". I am now waiting for the "Our current spying is not enough, we need even more spying powers" congress actions to surface. Cynically exploiting the fear and concern after an attack is the real game here - the "efficacy" of the measures proposed is irrelevant, as no one will be able to hold them accountable.
[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/us/after-paris-attacks-cia...
These look very much like the Mumbai attacks from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks
Basically they go after soft targets where large number of people gather (cafes, bars etc) - very hard to defend against if you have any kind of open society.
Whoever these Assholes are they deserve no mercy.
The one reason to use the Google Maps app is the updated Traffic info and slightly nicer turn-by-turn (mentions specific lanes, etc) and slightly more updated maps.
There are also two well know tweaks that can take the perverse incentives out of the H1-B system:
1) Allow the H1-B to be a work permit with free movement between like jobs at other companies - this will reduce underpayment and remove the virtual slave-labor conditions of an H1-B holder
2)Reform the Labor Certification process (the precursor allowing you file) so that it actually ensures that no Americans can be found - the current state of the LC system is a joke.
It contained the all important paragraph:
"Pearson’s next suggestion was even more daring: Cut research and development spending, the heart of most drug firms, to the bone. “We had a premise that most R&D didn’t give good return to shareholders,” says Pearson. Instead, the company should favour M&A over R&D, buying established treatments that made enough money to matter, but not enough to attract the interest of Big Pharma or generic drug makers"
TLDR: Cut R&D, buy successful but smaller drugs and then because of no competition make a killing by jacking up prices.
This firm and its nasty business model of profiteering off the backs of sick desperate people, deserve to die. They are no better than vultures that feed on the dying.
By changing the irrelevant board to a sightly smaller size.
I think this kind of move strongly indicates that they are in very big trouble. Walgreens should shut down their existing Theranos branded centers or risk getting sued...
An incorrect number on a blood test could be a potentially life altering event for some one - NOT something you want a fraudulent "unicorn" to be putzing with.
Kill the big dog by infecting the body with a smaller disease that is lethal to the big dog but (slightly) less lethal to the host.
So this can either go the "World war Z" way or the "I am legend" way - that's a cheery thought