Because people think the dog is what is doing the detection, when it is not. Like a placebo drug, there may be a beneficial effect, and it may involve the placebo, but it is not due to any characteristic inherent to that placebo. Rather, it is the knowledge that the placebo is present that is useful.

To spell it out more clearly, cops may have very good hunches that someone has drugs, but they cant legally stop that person. The dog acts as a placebo: he "signals" that there are drugs, and everyone believes the dog has detected drugs, but its not the dog doing the detection, its his handler who triggered him.

Im sure some dogs DO detect drugs, but the above scenario has been reported a number of times.

A lawyer wont be able to queue up an alert because the dog hasnt bonded with him.

He actually does know what placebo means, because I've seen articles suggesting what he's saying.

That is, however good a dog's scent of smell is, the real successes come from cops with hunches whose attitude towards the suspect triggers the dog into a "response". Apparently a drug dog response constitutes probable cause, and its well known that dogs are quite attuned to the behavior / stance of their handlers /owners and can be triggered into an aggressive response by the handler.

Wouldnt you want that to return a boolean or a pointer?

Im 90% sure that image is a mockup. The link to Federal times has a much more realistic image.

The Federal Times also notes that the drone is 10 lbs, which further cements my belief that the massive drone in the picture is a mockup or test device.

LoL and Starcraft have been doing esports for many many years now. LoL in particular has been growing quite a bit even as SC2 tapers off in enthusiasm.

Heck, check the page for LoL eSports' Spring 2015 playoffs. Playoff games are getting 250,000 viewers.

Siri does not work with all applications like a keyboard does. I cannot open an arbitrary app's arbitrary text field and dictate into it; this means the only reason I can dicatate youtube searches is because the Youtube app specifically implemented it.

Try SwiftKey for android and you will see what I mean. Dictation is a part of the keyboard, and does not rely on the "personal assistant" app knowing where to stick text.

Interesting, I hadnt seen the 840/50 pro reviews. Theyre somewhat exceptional in that regard, though, Im not aware of general consumer SSDs being able to hold that level of performance.

In any case I was responding to someone discussing the 840 EVO, which is an entirely different animal than the 840 pro, and certainly cannot hold 30k IOPS.

Im pretty sure thats what I said, and no one is arguing that point. You're just insisting on being pedantic and condescending.

Your original statement was that NAT is not security. This post of yours agrees that it is security in some shape. If we're agreeing there, then I dont think theres any reason to keep arguing. If youre disagreeing with that, Id ask you to take it up with the links I provided and with stackexchange. I dont have the time to try to make Cisco and SANS' cases on their behalf, if you are unwilling to take their word on it.\

Because it is an unusual attack scenario, and it would be illegal. It does happen, sure, and defending against a malicious ISP is far beyond the scope of most home security. Luckily for us every consumer OS made in the last 10 years has a stateful firewall, and every consumer router built in the last 10 years has a firewall, so its not an issue.

I mean good grief, 99% of home users are using the ISP provided DNS, and you're worried about probing through NAT in violation of the RFCs? DNS snooping is something that actually happens, and is actually legal. Risk assessment 101: focus on the probable threats.

Without mentioning the need to filter incoming packets, that tutorial concludes: "A computer located in the internet is not able to establish a connection to a local computer, all he can do is address (a port of) the router and hope the best."
Wrong, and leaves anyone who follows the tutorial vulnerable.
As mentioned already, it is impossible in the absence of a published route to your network for someone to reliably send packets directly into a dynamically natted network. The fact that someone could splice onto your cable network is irrelevant, because at that level of effort they could probably climb in through your window and just steal all of your equipment. You're talking about extremely esoteric attacks.

Im perpetuating the stance of major infrastructure vendors. Argue with them. I imagine you could contact support@cisco.com and explain why their statement that NAT fulfills a security role is incorrect.

In the meantime I would suggest you cut the condescending attitude.

If you're asking "what is my proof", check out any anandtech review's "consistency" test on SSDs.

If you're asking what the cause is, I would assume theres a buffer thats getting saturated, or else a cache that is exhausted, or perhaps the SSD controller's CPU gets pegged. Whatever the cause, most SSDs will sustain very high IOPs for a short period of time before falling into a "steady state pattern". For some SSDs it is a wildly swinging pattern, others (higher quality) hold a pretty steady rate around 5-6 IOPS.

Android lets you change keyboards. IOS has something that appears to do this, but it randomly reverts (such as when entering passwords) and is terribly limited compared to Android, not even supporting dictation.

Theres certainly a bandwidth penalty.

Its worth remembering that that 98k IOPS will rapidly drop to 2-10k for basically every SATA based SSD on the market. The 750 being advertised here is the first one I've seen sustain 20k.

IOPS are like cores: for any one single task, more doesnt mean faster. But in the real world, on a multitasking OS, the more you have the better things will be and the fewer times you'll ever be stuck waiting on your PC to stop thrashing.

You'll note that to produce this crappy summary they skipped over the IOmeter pages which show the Intel 750 bursting @ 180k IOPS and sustaining 20k, while 90% of consumer SSDs cant sustain more than 8k and the x-25m theyre touting struggles to break 2k.

Load up a slew of VMs on a virtualization lab on that x-25M and compare it to the 750-- THEN tell me that its no faster.