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> If the US, the EU, the UK, Canada, Japan, and Australia

Well that will never happen
As a footnote to your comment, the Dragon Box game is available on Android as well, and there are actually a series of games for different age groups and different skills.
Right, but the originator of the thread was talking specifically about 14" laptops.
In an unrelated note, Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan began working for Google in 2016.
For the confused: click and drag.
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Why was the icon color changed from blue to orange? Does Microsoft Word have color ownership of that particular blue? (then again, the color of the Insiders build is Excel Green)
> We can never prove that aliens are not out there, only that they are.

No, he's just saying if we don't find them by 2035 he owes the Internet coffee. Pretty excited, though I'm hoping I can substitute tea.
Gnome and KDE both still make me want to puke up blood but I would agree there will come a point in the not too distant future where Apple's going to have to look at cutting Mac prices. I mostly buy second hand these days just because I don't want to spend $2k+ when a $1k used machine is good enough for my needs.
> For instance why in the world wouldn't they have OS level software restricting read access of a certain secure partition (or removable media) to a specific whitelist of processes? Or why wouldn't they use an airgapped machine?

At some point you have to actually use your exploits, they can't all stay in secure airgapped machines. Malware is made to be used and to be used it must be copied. Obviously taking it home is egregious, but it's not like securing a private key or launch codes.
No, I have most definitely not.

And it's absolutely not 15%. That would be fantastic. It's in the low single digits.
If there are 3 billion out of the 300 billion star systems in the galaxy that have habitable planets, then there should be at least 10,000-100,000 star systems that harbor currently brodcasting species, no?
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There were many many bugs, but this one had a significant effect on battery life: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37038331

For end users, it was a big regression from android 4, even if you personally found it "perfect".
Did we read the same comment? Being interested in world events and/or the results of clinical trials conducted overseas is in no way "having [an] opinion on US politics."

(Not to mention that a Swede can have a very legitimate, personal, vested interest in what's going on in the US, maybe the GP had family vacationing in Vegas. - I had family vacationing in France during the Paris bombings, my mother-in-law called me up frantically that day.)
Hard to imagine that anyone at Apple sees MacOS (or the Mac in general) as a promising career path. All the 'A' players are either working on the iOS platform and devices, or have cashed out completely.

Especially with the move toward forced open-plan workspaces in the new campus, I suspect Apple is going to have serious problems attracting and retaining key talent in the years ahead. They are reaching the point where stock options will no longer be a strong incentive due to lack of upside potential.
Not quite true. If Aliens exist AND they had radio technology in use [distance from us in lightyears] years ago we will find them by 2035.

Aliens 200 light years away will not detect life on earth for 100 years or so yet (depending on if they are listening and how sensitive their radios are). If they immediately send a reply it will be 200 more years before we can get their reply.

Note that 200 light years is insignificant even on the scale of our galaxy, much less the universe.

What this means is even if we detect aliens that doesn't mean they still exist, we could well detect them, learn about them and then watch as die (war, plague, or any other doomsday scenario) before we can get our "we are here" message to them. That is we might find aliens that do not exist anymore! The universe is large enough that this would not surprise me (though it might be my great-great-great grandchild who discover they have been dead for thousands of years).

Or maybe we will not find any, and then in 2036 discover the first radio transmission of some aliens only a few light years away.
I cannot comment on every single aspect of Postgres vs MSSQL, but there are a few things I like in MSSQL that I don't believe exist in Postgres:

1) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - the default GUI is a decent free front-end that integrates well and lets you do advanced stuff like graphically live-profile queries (live execution plans), easily setup security, build indices, setup various things like linked servers, compression, etc. Although I'm a text-editor sort of person, I don't have SQL syntax memorized for infrequent tasks like creating indices so a GUI (or an IDE) can really help productivity in these instances.

Postgres's default GUI, pgAdmin is comparatively weak, and the good ones are third-party payware.

2) Columnar indices - MSSQL has a fairly good implementation called columnstore indices, which creates a derived column-oriented data structure which speeds up analytic queries quite a bit.

3) Speed - SQL Server is very performant and optimized, and doesn't choke on very large datasets. Postgres is decent, but on my datasets it doesn't seem to be very performant.

Also, MSSQL locking is a boon and a bane. It's not the best for environments with high contention, but it is ok for most analytic database use cases. On the other hand, Postgres' MVCC (and oh the vacuuming) can be annoying.
would need to be a few million broadcasting societies, broadcasting in a way we can detect.

and there could be aliens in other galaxies! we wouldn't detect them by 2035

article was pretty nonsense imho
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Ah, good eye. IANAL, and I missed that part.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration has written their own argument for jurisdiction [0]. Having flipped through it, I don't have the legal background to form a strong opinion in light of China's declaration.

I'd lean towards "don't build on reefs in another country's Exclusive Economic Zone," but I'm neither a court nor plaintiff with standing :)

[0] https://www.pcacases.com/web/sendAttach/1503
It clearly shows that a public beta with lots of volunteers cannot replace a small group of employed testers going through a list of user stories, verifying everything works as intended.
I'm going to take it that you've never done public sector contracting. The security rules are in reality less 007 and more school library, and this is totally believable. There is another story in the news now about soldiers smartphones being hacked in Eastern Europe. The troops are therefore made to go through water every day but some of them just put their phones in condoms. Defense contractors aren't even state employees and the security checks are basically akin to credit checks.

Russia (and China and others) have an advantage here in having recently been run as controlled states and having much of the bureaucratic apparatus and social habits still in place (e.g. bring your passport to buy a train ticket to another town; little old lady stationed on every floor of a hotel keeping an eye on comings and goings etc).
I only realized after your comment that what I wrote was unintentionally funny. Rewrote my comment.
He's saying that minor crimes are the element of indeterminacy that gives the legal system wiggle room to dole out arbitrary punishment when actual circumstances almost, but not fully warrant normal punishment.

A classic example is Al Capone caught for tax evasion. A more recent one is OJ Simpson jailed for some break-and-entering bullshit because everyone wants to punish him for those famous murders.
The short version is: "Hypothesis: there are millions of alien civilizations, by 2035 we will have sampled enough possible stars to achieve statistical significance, and either there are no aliens or we'll see a positive result."

Which I agree with (and I also agree with folks who point out that at some point being found may be a bad thing which would encourage hiding).

Like many people I know, I assume there must be other civilizations out there. However it is fun to ask the question, "What if we are unique in all the galaxy?" (really it would be the light cone associated with what we can perceive) What sort of responsibility would it put on humans to get their act together and keep from dying out if we knew we were unique?
If you've downloaded Sierra on another Mac before, you can still find the Sierra installer in the Mac App Store in the "Purchases" tab.

If you don't have it in your purchases list, you can just ask a friend who has it to download Sierra for you from the Mac App Store.

Then you can just copy the Installer app on a thumb drive and run it on your Mac.

Only problem might be that maybe you can't download Sierra from a machine running High Sierra...

UPDATE: I'm wrong, see comment below.
Maybe that's the first part of the evil plan? Make people see Russians everywhere.

I try to look at content and don't care much who the poster might be. Because everyone has motive even if it's just boredom or attention.
Well you've assumed they don't have a vote. US citizens are entitled to a vote while living abroad.

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/legal-m...
Secoding the recommendation. The trilogy is incredible.
Fact checking everything you read on the individual level is not scalable[1], or feasible. It's why we have the general expectation that journalists and Google won't feed us blatant untruths - and why we should have a conversation about it whenever it happens.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-libertar...
To be technical, MSSQL uses its own bespoke scheduling, and will preempt the thread for io. All io is nonblocking. The physical thread can vary for this reason. PGSQL really does use synchronous io and a single thread though. The former is probably more scalable but the latter has been serving PGSQL fine, too.
Science knows the mechanics of losing weight. Monitor and restrict calories. For example, lots of people do this successfully with their pets.
I remember that Kaspersky helped to investigate some of cyberattacks perfromed allegedly by western agencies. Could not these articles be a part of revenge campaign to punish them?

And another thought, if we cannot trust foreign AV software, does it mean that every country must have at list one national AV product? Or maybe it would make sence to make some special API for AV software so that it can check files and processes but cannot send data to the Internet?
Interesting. I use ttrss as well, do you have a blog-post or anything about how you are doing that?
SPARQL is also a standard from a well-known standards body with plenty of open source and commercial implementations, and it's quite popular at many commercial enterprises: http://www.sparql.club
Assuming it was spread relatively evenly throughout the month, 159 hours of overtime means she basically worked 80-hour work weeks that month.[1] That's much less shocking than it seems at first glance, especially considering she was only 31.

I'm not arguing that it's healthy or wasn't grueling--her particular activities might have been particularly grueling, and perhaps there were other circumstances at play--just that I'm sure plenty of people here have worked 80-hour work weeks back-to-back.

10 years ago a colleague and I spent about 4 months only sleeping 5 days each week, working through the night twice each week on our "side project". Recently I've been working through the night once each week (including yesterday/today), though it feels more difficult now than I remember when I was younger. (FWIW, I'm one of those people who really needs and appreciates sleep--minimum 8 hours to feel normal. By contrast my father has only slept about 4-5 hours each night for his entire adult life, a superpower I've always been envious of.)

[1] According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_labour_law) anything over 40 hours/week is overtime.
lol... thank you for that :)

BTW Apple, your latest iphone update has completely trashed your stock widget's display... please revert it back the way it was, thanks - a user.
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Being able to reclaim the land itself obviates much of that concern.
The battery life has actually improved since the Sierra update.
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That's quite disappointing.
On the optimistic end of Sagan's range, there are "a few million" broadcasting societies, call it 2 million. If there are 400 billion stars, that means that there's one broadcasting society per 20,000 stars. If they're evenly distributed, and we sample 1M stars, then our odds of missing with all 1M samples are negligible (about 1/10^22).

(I don't think that there are a few million broadcasting societies in our galaxy. But if there are, we'd expect to find them soon.)
Incidentally if anyone's looking for a mouse, Logitech really handles this perfectly. When it's plugged in to USB they use the cable for power + data so there's a tiny bit less latency and no worries about signal dropping. It switches the data to the wireless dongle automatically if the cable is unplugged.

The mouse runs off of a single rechargable AA battery (came with an Eneloop brand NiMH which are well regarded). If your battery dies you can either plug it in to charge or just pull the battery and swap in a fresh one. Since it's a standard battery you can toss the dead one in a normal NiMH charger.

A+ mouse, would recommend.
> They found a isis training camp

From the text : "These guys weren't ISIS, just opposing Assad and Russia."
There's a difference between not using transactions because you don't know better and not using transactions for reasons that arise out of a deep understanding of what is going on. 99% of the time, it's the former. The argument that transactions aren't perfect is a shitty reason not to use them, the kind of bad advice that doesn't hurt you today, but may hurt you in the future.
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/

regarding proof of stake
A great summary of the Dark Forest theory without giving away too much of the plot. This trilogy is one of the best books/stories I've ever read.
Wait, are you saying the commanders are trying to destroy the soldiers' personal hidden phones by making them swim with their gear?
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That's pretty much how I'm approaching social media as well in my twenties.

I'm barely posting anything anymore on Facebook, but the Messenger groups I share with 10 or so of my closest friends are alive and well. I guess I just don't like the feeling of someone "butting in" into conversations meant for other people on Facebook posts. For the same reason I barely comment anything anymore on other people's posts, it just feels like walking on glass most of the time.
If you've ever lived in Russia for any length of time and not been sheltered, the Kremlin stories coming out are not only totally believable but predictable. I think it's being massively downplayed in fact, because the reality of what's going on is simply so disturbing that nobody in power wants to accept it and have to act on it.
Wow, good memory, assuming your username, boasting of your new high speed acoustic coupler modem, is any indication of when you registered your account :-)
> High Sierra keeps restarting by itself.

Reset the SMC. It was doing this multiple times per day for me also, but it hasn't been an issue since I did this a couple days ago.
You're the only one in this thread that's incredulous about a major publication posting a researched article.

Clearly we are all out to get you.
That's a good idea. On the topic of place value, I've been wondering whether either of these concepts is suitable for entertaining youngish minds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeckendorf%27s_theorem (leads to a number representation)

https://oeis.org/wiki/Primorial_numeral_system (could be base for applet game: represent a number in this system)

Or, also
https://oeis.org/wiki/Factorial_numeral_system
I think is safest just to assume

1) this news outlet is captured by people who do not have your best interests at heart

or

2) this news outlet is run by crazy people

or

3) both
> Since Iraq I have become much more critical of pretty much everything. Our media and our government lied to generate a case for war.

Uh, while there were some media collaborating with the government propaganda, the government's case for war was thoroughly and pretty completely debunked in the mainstream media, nearly in real-time.

Few people paid as much attention to that as what the government was saying, which the media reported as, well, what government officials were saying, but the media would have been negligent not to report that. They can hardly be responsible for the strong effect of confirmation bias combined with official-sources bias among the population.
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ

for counterarguments
The beauty of course being that the mere existence of such a clause tells you more than enough about the performance characteristics.

Now, I'm not going to discount Oracle entirely. From what I've learned from some truly hardcore DBAs, there are certain workloads and scenarios where Oracle is still unbeatable.[ß] But outside those special cases, postgres is the rational, correct choice.

ß: For example, if you have insane performance requirements on a single system, I have been explained that oracle can be used with their own "fs" layer, which in turn runs directly on top of block device layer. Essentially, a bare-bones file system designed for nothing but their own DB usage.
1. dont have the same depth of dev talent they used to 2. mgmt that isnt as sensitive-to and focussed-on quality.

(this is 75% speculation on my part and 25% confirmed by conversations with 2 ex-apple engineers.)
I don't know whether these automated news aggregators rely on machine learning per se, but this kind of reminds me of recent ML fails like Microsoft's Tay bot turning into a Nazi, or Google Photos labeling black people as gorillas.

Andrew Ng interviewed Ian Goodfellow in the first course of his deep learning specialization on Coursera. Ian said that he's really interested in machine learning security, in part guarding against untrusted or adversarial inputs.

Whether they're poisoning your network in the first place, or your network is misclassifying them because they're too weird, it seems like you need to treat random inputs as potentially adversarial.
I use the thinklight for illuminating RSA keyfobs in the dark. Granted, I can tilt the screen and crank up its brightness to achieve the same thing, but it's cumbersome and maybe some people would prefer to read something illuminated while typing and seeing the screen simultaneously. At least my RSA codes are short enough to type from memory.
I think facet counts at scale are probably best handled by Elasticsearch or Solr, but I'd be delighted if a PostgreSQL expert would step in and convince me otherwise based on some of the amazing work that went into PostgreSQL 10.
>>As a simple example, how many people would use a tumbler if that started being seen as probable cause for a money laundering investigation?

Filesharing is arguably in this category and maybe shows that it's possible that something not generally used for legal purposes and not in the mainstream can nonetheless become widely used. But yes there is certainly a risk.

>Some people value that but it seems unlikely that it's enough to make up for the smaller network, processing delays, and exchange fees.

Right now cryptocurrency is in its infancy, so it has a lot of drawbacks, but it has obvious advantages that anyone can see, like being able to send money from your computer, without first registering with Google Wallet, Square, Venmo, etc, to anyone, anywhere in the world who also has the software installed on an internet connected device. This is a fundamental innovation in money transfer. You're right that it may not be enough to overcome the advantages that large trusted third parties can bring to make it go mainstream, but the advantages it has are obvious enough that people can see it potentially doing so.
No.

Root for other browsers, sure.

But Microsoft's? No.

They wantonly abused their market position in the 90s & stalled the advancement of the web for years.

There many other worth products to cheer for rather than the latest offering from a habitual bad actor.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204921

Try this link.

> Account recovery is an automated process designed to get you back into your Apple ID account* as quickly as possible and deny access to unauthorized users. For your security, recovery might take several days or longer, depending on the verification information that you can provide.
All our current physics says that the speed of light is a real limit to travel, and to get close to that requires far more energy that a society is likely to have. I can well believe that aliens if they exist may conclude leaving their solar system is not worth the cost. Sure they could do it, but many will die when their spaceship on the way. Even robot spaceships are unlikely to make it very far (on the scale of the galaxy) before suffering a critical failure.

Thus I can well believe that aliens have colonized the other habitable planets in their solar system and failed at all attempts to do anything more. They might have got one robot to a different star, but that is it.

Of course this assumes they are there before us by a significant amount. Maybe humans are first to reach our level - it is an arrogant idea but we cannot completely discard it until proven wrong.
I think that bug could easily slip through once, even with a test script. Let’s say the script says

- enter P as password
- enter H as hint
- click “OK”
- unmount the disk
- mount it again
- check that the dialog shows the hint H
- enter P as the password
...

Now, if P isn’t obviously a password and H isn’t obviously a hint (let’s say P is ‘foo’, and H is ‘bar’), it takes only one slip of the mind to turn that “check that the dialog shows the hint H” into “check that the dialog shows the string you just entered as hint”, and from there, it’s only a tiny further slip to “yes, that’s a string I just entered”.

To me, it seems at least as likely that that gets past a tester once as it is that a programmer writes that bug.

It still should be highly unlikely to get throug multiple rounds of testing by multiple testers, though.

A better test description would use a more password-like value for P (say ‘tqbfjoald’) and a more hint-like value for H (‘quick and brown’), decreasing that risk.
Phones transmit signal so soldiers can be easily detected: if you see a large number of signal sources somewhere in the forest the probability is high that a military squad is hiding there. Soldiers should not have a phone when on duty.

Futhermore, if military base is located near or in the city the enemy can bring an IMSI catcher and record phone identifiers, or intercept calls.