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Just include disabling it in the script you run after install

https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
And how many keys has been done ? Once a company accepts to develop backdoor to operate in the US, what guarantee do you have they have no similar arrangement with other governments ?

Patriotism ? That's a dangerous currency to use with global companies.
...well, then.
(am a googler)

The accusation here is that Levandowski stole proprietary hardware designs, not algorithms. (well there was also an allegation that he stole "math" but alsup denied that)
His refusal was already more than validated by acting as a safeguard for privacy.
(Not sure if being sarcastic...)

Programming these days is hard, too. The amount of stuff you have to learn seems to continually get bigger and bigger. Like learning to program in pure Java vs. learning Android development. Writing programs in Java feels like programming to me. Writing programs for Android feels like remembering formulas without understanding how they work.

And googling for answers often takes you down the wrong path, or there simply is no answer when you get deep enough into the codez.
uMatrix[0] is a fantastic way to get more performance out of old computers.

I have a low-end laptop that I use for travel - a ThinkPad x131e running OpenSuSE. uMatrix makes the difference between a machine that's unusable for web browsing and one that's actually fast.

However, it is kind of a pain to figure out what pieces need to be allowed for a site to work and what are superfluous. Once you get it nailed down though, you can just press the lock icon to make it remember your selections.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
My business partner's 16-year-old kid is a hardcore "gamer" who thinks he's smarter than Microsoft.

I set up a PC for him with a legal, licensed copy of Windows 10, and he promptly reset it using a pirate/cracked version of LTSB because he didn't want the "Windows 8 stuff" and he didn't want "Microsoft spying on him"

Within 2 days it was full of viruses and malware. I don't let him plug his computer in to our office network, and I don't let him near any of our office computers.
No, they presented him as a hero, because that's what he is, and that's what people want to hear about.
Workstation users. CAD, raytracing, and video editing people need as much CPU horsepower as they can get, and quad-channel RAM is pretty nice too.

("preview" rendering is done with GPU acceleration - but final encodes are still done on CPU for quality reasons)

Small-business servers, databases, that kind of stuff too.

We'll see where they go with this - but I would caution enthusiasts to tamp down their expectations a little bit because this is not necessarily going to be an ideal product for gaming. I would not be surprised to see lower clocks to keep TDP under control, and some fairly high price tags to go along with these chips.

I'm imagining this as being more of a competitor to the high-end Xeons, with 3.5 GHz boost clocks and 3 GHz base clocks and a $2000 price tag. It would still be a screaming great deal at that price.

In comparison Intel wants $1700+ for most of the high-core-count Xeons, and you're getting fewer cores and lower clocks.
> SJWs in general want a world where white men heve less rights than people who do not have these characteristics.

I do not believe you. (Not unless you define "SJW" to mean this, in which case instead I say: OK, but there are so few of those people and they have so little influence that I don't see why we should care very much.)

So far as I can tell, "SJWs in general" think that in the world as it presently is, white men have it better than other groups, and they are trying to make things better for those other groups, and as long as white men have it better they don't mind if the things they do to help the other groups make things worse for white men.

Now, there are plenty of ways in which that might be wrong. For instance: it might be wrong to think that white men have it better; or it might not be reasonable to try to improve other people's situation at the cost of white men's, even if the latter are better off on average. But this is not at all the same as saying that "SJWs in general" want a world where white men have less rights than non-(white men), and if you want to make that accusation then I think you should be presenting evidence for it.
I actually cancelled my prime yesterday after their support essentially shrugged me off for asking why a prime package was taking almost a week to deliver. Would have had the item by now if I used Jet or Walmart, or just drove to a real store.

And you nailed it, it's becoming impossible to actually shop on amazon. It's filled with products that keyword stuff titles, are blatant knockoffs, etc.
Brings to mind Cstross' story about how he ended up writing scifi. At one point it involves pressing a massive proof of concept perl script for a UK online payment service into production, and keeping it afloat as companies and banks piled on.
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The numbers are a bit older, but https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/clear-2012.pdf claims there were 1.4 millions top level clearances held in 2012.
Windows does sometimes wake up a laptop to apply updates and put it back to sleep afterwards.

This can be rather dangerous if your laptop is stuck in a backpack with no airflow on a hot day.
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Well we can argue wether a knife is pro or con user when Microsoft stabs said user in the back with it. Microsoft would say that it provides a secure (tm) resting place for the users hat and is not only very pro-user in doing so but also important for the continous operation of said hat. My point is just that, Microsoft used Windows Update to push unwanted software in the past and as such Windows Update was never entirely a pro-user software, something always undermined by Microsofts willingness to put its own goals above its users needs.
amen. the comments in this post are entirely frustrating.
Did you happen to read his tweets?
The key word is profitable - it's a nut that Amazon hasn't cracked yet either.
How can you although? Show us what is on every hard drive you ever owned? Uber doesnt have access to googles internal security logs.
Thoughts on implementing transactions on top of Badger? I can see a bunch of ways, but it seems you'd have to build an entire high-level transaction model on top in order to get isolation, read consistency and atomicity. You'd also want to do a lot of caching, I think, to make it fast.

If huge, long-running transactions aren't needed, then it may be easier to just let transactions happen in RAM, with a cache to enforce isolation and emulate atomicity. So for exmaple, while a transaction is committing, the system would need to cache the previous (that is, currently committed) version of every key, to avoid having other transactions reading the on-disk data, which is in the process of being updated. It would also need either a redo log or undo log so that, in the event of a cache, any half-written transactions can be either replayed or rolled back.
It's amazing how many people defend Apple while attacking Microsoft here. It's almost as if Apple pays people to do this.

We run Windows 10 and the lastest Windows server on all our machines and don't have problems because we have good, in-house, local IT people and also good security on the edge routers.
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I can't comment on the ins and outs of discovery, but I will point out that "Google" is inaccurate - the plaintiff is Waymo, which is a sibling company to Google.
But the plus sign is also one character. Why not use a big plus sign instead? That would not only be clearer, it generalizes systematically: use a big multiply sign instead of a capital pi, etc.

When I was a kid I was a little intimidated by those higher math books with the "Greek E's" in them. Years passed before I learned in my early teens what they actually meant (and that it was simple, and they weren't even E's).
As soon as one machine is infected it will use windows shares to infect any other machine on the network that is vulnerable, without those users needing to do anything wrong. If you're un-patched anyone on the network gets infected you are infected.

HTH
Nobody's disputing that security updates are objectively good. The problem is that Microsoft pushes antifeatures through the "security updates only" channel.

So it's a trade-off: Security threats or antifeatures.
I hate quibbling with a question's premise, but dang, this one is whack.

SO does not teach you how to program. It gives you upvoted answers to specific questions people have.

Would you try to become a doctor by reading common questions and upvoted answers to medical issues? Of course not. Sure, after you were a doctor, such game-playing might be useful -- but only as something extra, not as the skill itself.

I was just leading a team two hours ago through some group coding, and we ran into a problem. "Let's Google it!" we all said, and sure enough, other people had the same problem.

But the top three results? They were bogus. The authors didn't understand the error, so the questions they posed were vague and out-of-context. The people answering the problem were just as bad, only some of these wrong answers to wrong questions got quite a few votes! And why not? The internet is a game you play for points.

I was fortunate that I knew the answer before we started. I was just curious to see how it played out.

It did not play out well.

You learn to program by somehow climbing inside of somebody else's head and learning to think like they do while they program There are various ways to do this: read lots of books, watch videos, spend time pairing up in a computer lab on campus. None of them involve playing hit-and-miss Q&A with the internet. Sure, it's fun, and yes, it gives you a bunch of answers to specific problems you didn't have before. But it's got jack shit to do with programming.

Remember those old haunted house games from the 90s? Where you had to thrash around until you finally came up with the magic phrase? Something like "pick up the lamp from the corner". Once you got the phrase right, you could proceed.

Lotta folks think programming is like that. It is not.

In fact, when I look at a lot of the crap that passes for programming, most of it is due to coders on a time budget thrashing around online, copying and pasting whatever they think might work. And they never come back to clean anything up.

Why refactor if your idea of programming is simply making the compiler work and something half-way acceptable appearing in the results? I'd argue that the majority, perhaps the vast majority, of people claiming to be programmers today are, in fact, people who aren't afraid of the machine and know how to Google. (And what usually happens to these folks if they are successful is that they end up in corporate jobs where they do less and less programming and become more and more afraid of breaking anything)
Does no self-respecting software dev leave comments/documentation behind? A software program is the equivalent product to a blueprint, not a building. And an architect might leave guidelines and annotations on those blueprints (they would not dismantle scaffolds, that's a builder).
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I don't get it either. CNBC has webservers and presumably some sort of in-house or external CDN. Why host on Scribd?
It's nice talking with someone with such in-depth knowledge about meditation.

>> Wow, did you get this idea now, just by thinking about consequences of centering around one intention?

Thanks, but not really, i already knew that meditation raises strong emotions that might need integration.

>> I recommend Culadasa's method because it's very precise , driven by joy

Thanks. That's a good recommendation. BTW, if i follow his method and stop at the right stage, i can fully proect myself from deep emotional work ? because it really doesn't fit my life currently.
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The rational idea is not going to the store because you don't like the people or the climate there. The slightly less rational idea is that you won't shop at their online store because of the name association. You're not interacting with their customers or staff, but when you see the name you still feel the association with their customers and staff.

Just because you can quantify why you feel that way doesn't make it rational. I don't like spiders because they look scary. I've never been bitten by one or even threatened by one, but I still don't like them. That's an irrational fear, even though I can tell you exactly why I don't like them. If you don't like Walmart because of its customers or staff, refusing to shop online with them is irrational.
While I agree there is a bias in the media regarding Uber, that didn't form in a vacuum. There have been numerous fairly bad missteps from the company. I think it's less a case of the media steering the public as is is the media conforming to public opinion in some cases and showing the public what it expects, since the public is getting a fairly bad impression of Uber, and that's not entirely because of how the media has presented the stories.
I like quanta for general purpose math articles. they typically take a fairly recent paper and explain it qualitatively but still pretty accurately. almost like war stories.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/
>The level of discipline required to operate a multi-tenant, externally facing service like FBA yields tremendous benefit to the Amazon’s internal operation — this isn’t some hacked-together, homegrown tool that is hard-coded to Amazon’s own needs and thus nearly impossible to improve.

Did this guy just say FBA is impossible to improve? Is this a comedy piece? FBA is garbage, we (third party sellers, at least me) only sell on FBA because that's where the customers are. FBA is like an abusive boyfriend you can't get away from. Sure, Amazon will reimburse you when they lose your inventory (which they will do, very often) but you have to watch your inventory like a hawk because they won't tell you your inventory is lost. That's assuming your shipments even make it into your inventory in the first place after arriving at the wearhouse. Ive heard of big time FBA sellers having to hire someone to do nothing but resolve inventory discrepancies full time. Seller support barely speaks English (unless you can get a supervisor, which I was able to do once by making enough of a stink) and doesn't understand what your problem is. Of course they take 3 full days to not resolve your issue. No legitimate seller commingles inventory anymore because then Amazon will send out counterfeits to your customers. It absolutely WILL happen to you at some time if you are commingling for enough time, no exceptions. Then you have to hope Amazon doesn't kick you off their platform for their own incompetence.
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> get accredited

By whom?

It's the other way round: shutting down an NHS hospital is the sort of thing that would normally be a front-page disaster for the government, so it's almost never going to happen.
I am sure Walmart has lots of advantages but many of the things you are saying are speculative.

Maybe VR can enhance shopping experience. Sounds like basic research though, so not a competitive advantage yet.

Looking at internal organization is great, but again not a competitive advantage. Every org should be reviewing internal structures and efficiencies.

Your friend likes Walmart better than Amazon. I'm sure for valid reasons. But it's a third hand anecdote at this point without any details.

"Anything Amazon does Walmart does the same thing" seems disingenous. Their cost structures are different. The customers are dofferent. There be different strategies in pricing. Some will be copied, but Walmart can't copy Amazon's pricing models wholesale.

"Customer service is going to be...in 5 years"... Maybe. Maybe not. Why hasn't it happened yet? What has changed? Will this new directive overtake whatever cultural forces led customer service to be what it is now?

I'd be interested to see some analysis that goes deeper.
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Interesting. The US now has ISPs that are allowed to track their customers and so people are forced to use VPNs to have a basic level of privacy and at the same time Netflix(and I imagine others will follow) are mandating you can't use a VPN.

This is a pretty crappy situation and I guess you can vote with your wallet.

I am surprised that Netflix which increasingly relies on their own content would feel the need to placate this Hollywood greed?

I'm also curious what heuristic they are using to decide if I am on a VPN?

EDIT:

From:
https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-vpn-crackdown-a-year-of-fru...

>"It is still unclear how Netflix’s IP-blacklisting works. A few providers have noticed that some of their IP-ranges were already banned before they were active, suggesting that Netflix automatically flags IPs from certain organizations"
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Microsoft literally pushed adware and spyware on Win7/8 users.
In engineering, we should assume the users will not adhere to instruction. This is why in physical engineering, tolerances for usage are often 3x their advertised value.

In Microsoft's case, they have the means to know who their users are and ensure they upgrade. Forced upgrades should be an opt-out feature, especially with an OS as prominent as Windows.
Waymo is further granted the right to pull down the defendants' pants, and point and laugh at their genitals.

I mean, seriously, they've just been granted a shit load of access to their biggest competitors secrets. Pray they don't abuse that...
I'm trying to make sure I understand your comment: are you suggesting urban areas are better without the concept of private property, because if there is no private property then humans can "build themselves homes"?
My interpretation is that, if this is something that will always be needed, it should be the responsibility of the government beholden to the taxpayers and voters, not at the whims of a corporation whose motivation or dedication may change quickly depending on circumstances.
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> It functions, sadly, as a sort of trap for impressionable bright people very eager for advanced knowledge

Or perhaps people who assume that it's a good all-in-one solution to get a glimpse of understanding the Universe. For me personally, I have no wish to be mathematically fluent now. I admit that I can't imagine committing wholly to the studies of maths and physics for more than two years - this book seemed like a Magic Bullet.

My plan is to read it very slowly, perhaps over a decade. My mind is on other projects for now, but if I have this quietly stewing at the back of my mind, maybe one day I can be braver to make the jump and study maths and physics seriously.

At least, that's the plan. A retirement amongst books - I thought that's appropriate.

Sigh, I do believe you though. Have you read this book to dispute Penrose's claim that the less mathematically fluent can gain some useful insights?
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if this is all legit, it baffles me that this guy thought he would be able to 'download' anything and take it and not be caught... weird
If you want to see a ripoff just look at prime pantry. Most of those items you can use clicklist on and pickup same day at a Kroger store. Walmart has the same as well.
Learning to code was mostly done by people who naturally gravitated to logic and computers and could solve problems on their own or with the help of a mentor.

I think in the 90's there was a growth in what I call career programmers: people who chose to get into programming because it was "the thing to do", though they didn't have the natural skills or passion for the work. They just worked really hard to learn and found a nitch to fit into...before moving on to management (or getting fired). A lot of these people were the foundation for classroom training and certifications.

I think millennials are a combination of natural skill and passion, but in many cases lack the background of computer science so they do great and terrible things all at once.

I'm mostly self-taught, but having Google and Stack Overflow are really amazing tools. Except when you're asking the wrong question (Google lacks context). Then you need something else, which doesn't exist. Yet.
Most of those are products that are not expected run over night in batching mode.

You may get the need to have things to run overnight using engineering, simulation, rendering products with some sort of long running process. But these normally have server component that you install onto Windows Server, which the client offloads to.
> * Not pirating (you know, its really funny how most illegal 'patches' say, oh yeah patch is detected as trojan and its a false positive)

Sadly i have seen various legit tools trigger the same warnings, because the developer used similar low level techniques that malware use to hide their true nature.

Basic thing is that at the CPU level all instructions are legit. And then we pile code upon code on top to try to extract the context and intent of the programmer from the behavior of the code.

In a sense that can quickly devolve into computer "racism".
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So far, it looks like tx are still rolling in. They haven't cashed it out yet, so they really have ~35 BTC, nothing in USD yet.
Not sure how much apple care about my privacy when they force the phone to call home after factory reset and using it as a dumbphone and blackmail you to provide a valid credit card before installing any free app...

If you care about privacy you don't collect data on your users.
What the sister reply said: analytics. Amazon is madly driven by them.
> we still don't know if the FBI withdrew the request because they just found some other way into the device that they wanted to access

We do know that. It's public knowledge. The iPhone 5C didn't have Secure Enclave (later iPhones did), so it was crackable in another way (that more modern iPhones can't be).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-p...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/0...
God, it's even worse for academic / engineering use.

Nothing is better than running a simulation for twenty hours and waking up to a nice blank desktop. /s
I largely agree, although I think mixed-reality will be the new UX, with voice & AI being a big part of it as well. But we may need 2 orders of magnitude in GPU/Watt performance before light-field glasses replace 2D screens.

Given the gargantuan data/compression requirements of light-fields (Lytro's cameras capture >300GB/sec of lightfield data!!!), plus rendering, persistent SLAM, etc, we'll need the power of a GTX1080Ti or better, but able to run flat out using only 1-3Watts of power instead of ~250W.

The good news is this is what the global smartphone manufacturing ecosystem is working towards, with a relatively short device life-cycle to finance the huge effort that will be required to get there. But mid to late 2020s will be all about mixed reality. I am convinced that it will be so incredibly compelling, that any 2D screen, no matter the size, resolution, dynamic range, or refresh rate, will be like command line compared to GUI today.
Amazon has free two-day shipping on orders over $35 right now too, but they also let members get unlimited two-day shipping on tiny orders. I just placed a single order for a hard to get $10 item a few minutes ago on Amazon.

The other thing is, can Walmart do same-day delivery?
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