What kind of surprises me is that Apple doesn't have their own skunkworks R&D for coming up with new technologies like sapphire screens or other key components. They could work out what they wanted and then farm it out to someone who can mass produce it. Sort of like the Bell Labs or IBM labs.
Under Jobs, Apple followed Jobs' vision. Without Jobs, Apple has no vision.
Probably they should have gone with JLG and BeOS instead.
I can provide ample anecdotal evidence that being brought up by anyone other than natural parents breeds psychopaths
Oh, so nothing substantive then. Just as I believed.
Oh, by the way, MJ didn't kill himself, his doctor killed him
Yes, that's quite common.
VPN providers can and do share identity of their clients with the government.
What if you get a VPN provider in another country, will a Czech or Taiwanese based provider share information with the UK government?
I'm pretty sure he's dead.
So you can agree that being raised by his own parents didn't work out so well, right? He destroyed his face out of low self-esteem in spite of being one of the best-loved entertainers in history, and died of a prescription drug overdose. Now, can you prove that being raised by someone else wouldn't have been better for him?
Location: Uber needs to know where you are so you can get picked up. Surprise!
Contacts: For splitting fares with friends, inviting friends to use Uber
Phone: To call your Uber driver or for them to call you
Camera/Microphone: Uber has a function that lets you take a photo of your credit card for scanning
Wi-Fi Connection: Checks if you have internet and attempts to use the WiFi name to help determine your location
Device ID and Call Information: Allows access to your phone number and a unique ID for your device
Identity: Allows Android users to sign in and pay with one tap (using the Google Sign-In and Google Wallet services)
Photos/Media/Files: Uber says this is to “save data and cache mapping vectors.”
Here's the list of permissions you didn't explain and makes for interesting reading.
- Identity:
Add and remove accounts.
- Photos/Media/Files:
Access to protected storage.
Modify or delete files.
- Other:
Receive data from Internet.
Use accounts on the device.
Read Google service configuration.
Modify system settings.
Full network access.
I've bolded the last three because there's no reason for them. Why does it need full network access and access to Google service configuration. "Receive data from the Internet" is sufficient to download data, full network access means they're uploading quite a bit, combine this with all the other information you're getting and it's extremely suspect.
Given that Uber has been found to be less than trustworthy before, why do you think they aren't abusing your trust (and personal data)?
I don't have to buy that feature. Most cars in fact don't have a remote starter. Remote door locks are pretty common but the starter is unusual.
Like remote locks were in the early 90, remote start is uncommon now but it will become more common later. Its more common in Europe than the US because of the weather, most people would rather have breakfast than sit in their car waiting for it to warm up enough to drive.
Be sure to let us know about any actually good deals. Of course, by the time we read about them here, they'll be sold out. But you'll post 'em twice anyway.
One of the most tedious things about posting to Slashdot is that cut and paste does not work.
It's only tedious if you care whether C&Ps come through accurately. I don't, so there's no problem here. I typically don't preview. I'm not fucking getting paid for this.
You sound like a moron.
You look like a coward.
Alignment isn't an issue - there's no alignment on a modern drive. Instead, at the factory, they write a set of servo tracks all over the platters which do the aligning for you - basically the head seeks to approximately the right position and starts reading, and the servo track tells it where it actually is, so feedback gets the head to the right track.
Sigh. Alignment is an issue, because each platter has its own alignment. That means that when you're reading/writing one platter, you're not aligned for the other platters. That's why you can't have multiple heads on one armature (which has multiple arms, all fixed together) and read/write multiple platters at once.
the bigger reason why two actuators didn't work is far simpler - think multiprocess programming. Both actuators could read or write data to the platters (of which there was one set) and if you screwed up the order of the accesses, you could easily write the wrong thing
You're being ridiculous. That's true no matter how many actuators you have — if you screw up, you write the wrong thing. Even if you only have one actuator, if you write the data to the wrong sectors, you're gonna have a bad time. But both actuators have the same job: write some data to someplace. The two don't have the job to write the same data. If the drive gets a command to write data to a sector to which it already has cached data waiting to write, then hopefully it just throws away the first command anyway. This is something we would hope any drive with queuing would do whether it has 1 actuator or a dozen.
think you do a read then a write of a sector - and the sector happens to be under the actuator doing the write
HDD sectors are either 512 bytes or 4kb. In the former case they are often smaller than filesystem blocks and there is no need to read them before writing. You just run right over them. In the latter case, they are typically the same size as filesystem blocks (we use bigger blocks on larger filesystems, and we use 4k blocks on multi-TB drives) and again, there is no need to read them before wrtiting. You only have to find them, which means waiting the seek and then for some fraction of the time it takes the spindle to go around once. Then you can write. This is true no matter how many armatures are reading/writing the same disk.
It would have been more interesting to have more of the responses from the scientists that work there rather than some droid in the marketing department.
I think that will have done them more damage here than good, by far. What's funny is that really nobody wants to hear a line of bullshit any more. Kawasaki just sent a clueless flack to be on Leno's Garage and show off their new bike and a good portion of the comments were about what a lame he was. That's at least half of what people will take away from the experience. Send someone who knows what they're talking about and can handle being on camera, or don't send anyone at all. Just send the bike and a brochure.
I'm not sure that's actually true. What would have to happen is that the production of chickens and eggs would have to become more distributed, and you would need more human labor. There's lots of places where the chickens can get free food, but they do need to range for that, so you're going to have to spend a lot more time and effort managing your chickens.
On the other hand, integrating chickens into more agricultural scenarios has the potential to improve them in a variety of ways. Chickens can be mixed in with most plants once they reach a certain size that makes them less appealing than the pests that they attract, and the weeds growing up around them. The chickens help with both of these problems. If we move to a more integrated food production model in which we do sensible things like compost our shit and put it back into the fields once it's become soil again, we'll want to move away from tilth and towards guilds anyway. Robotics is advancing on fruit-picking, and in the mean time, we have a lot of labor lying around to handle the substantial increase in labor currently demanded by such a change. We only don't do this now to maximize profits. We could pay people enough to pick vegetables, but then some of the vegetables which currently produce the most profit would fall by the wayside, and we can't disturb the status quo now, can we?
Ehhh, sounds good, we can use margin of error as an excuse then. I suppose it's just by margin of error that this company is too stupid to be able to figure out that not all birds are mistreated. And by margin of error, I'll not bother to do business with them.
Actually, you're both displaying ignorance, although yours is the more spectacular; it's a fact that the bread far outweighs the mayo, so caring about the carbs in the mayo is a jerkoff waste of time. Even a low-carb slice of bread will run you around 5g net carbs (carbs less fiber, which is indigestible.) The truth is that anything less than 1.0g can be reported as 0g by our nutritional guidelines, and otherwise the numbers are rounded. Therefore, something with 0.9g carbs is reported as having 0g carbs, while something with 1.1g carbs is reported as having 1g carbs.
As the person initiating the search, I decide what is relevant.
Only to the extent that the law allows.
The law already included a solution to the problem of misleading information in at least some EU countries; you can have the material taken down, because it is already illegal there. Hell, even some non-misleading material is illegal in some of those countries, those in which the truth is not an absolute defense against libel. A new law seeking to hide the illegal information is not the solution. It only really seeks to do two things: one, let people hide their misdeeds, and two, attempt to hide the extent of the failure of laws against stupid people saying stupid shit on the internet.
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