"Remember, Na-Zi means National SOCIALIST, and that's that fascism is."
Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people, and you also don't know what either socialism or fascism is if you think one is a type of the other.
He wasn't a Nazi but George Washington did a genocide and was named "Town Killer" for it. And before someone points out that was his father, no, his father (who was also named George) ALSO did a genocide and was called the same thing for the same reason.
What should be of interest to slashdotters isn't the irony of someone associated with cryptography losing their private key, but that there exists an open source system to securely allow voting and also to absolutely verify that the vote was counted. All while still maintaining anonymity. Barring the issue of losing private keys on the part of those administering the vote, this sort of system is very interesting, and really could be used to promote voter engagement and democracy. I had heard of it before, but kind of forgot about it.
Not anything. Especially when dealing with nuclear. There are some parts that once degraded cannot be safely replaced. For example, the containment unit. And others where making a new one makes more economic sense than replacing even when technically possible. What state this plant is in I have no idea, and am not qualified to have an opinion on. I just hope experts are making the decision based on economics and power requirements and not politics.
No, it isn't. You're absolutely deluding yourself. And even if it was, nobody uses it to actually write anything. Learning to write (vs read) would be, is, and has been for 50 years an utter waste of time.
Netflix and YouTube both use AV1, which is royalty free.
You're right about YouTube. I was thinking HEVC was one of their delivery formats, but apparently not.
Netflix definitely did use HEVC for delivery of some of its high-end content at one time. Whether they still do or not, I have no idea.
Either way, the fact that people are running into error messages suggests that there is some actual customer impact.
NT existed when IBM brought out at least two major versions of OS/2 without such features while NT had them, so... No.
Smart. Instead of charging each customer an additional $0.04 per unit, or even eating those costs ($600k, in other word chump change), they use it as an excuse to upsell their product line.
Except that nobody who buys one of their machines is going to think, "I could pay an extra $100 and my machine would work better." They're going to think, "This piece of s**t can't even do things that my cell phone from eight years ago can do. Why did I buy this, and why should I ever buy anything from this manufacturer in the future?"
This level of penny-wise, pound-foolish behavior is a sure way to permanently lose customers.
Anyone who wants to do H.265 encoding
...or decoding...
will probably be looking at the higher end models anyway.
You mean like... anyone who wants to watch Netflix or YouTube or any other streaming service's high-res content?
Even if it is in the largest font size, is the average person even going to understand what the ramifications are?
No, but it would let people who care know, and it would let people who potentially care google and find out.
My question is, why only 10 hours a month!?!? I'm sure that's the only reason it's free, but that should also alleviate some of the bandwidth usage concerns.
I would tend to assume that if you pay you get more, so it's just a trial version, and this is just an indirect slashvertisement.
There really needs to be an international age verification working group that spends the next five years coming up with a system, then pressures everyone to implement it.
I don't think creating a centralized world ID database is going to be a win at this point.
OS/2 had no security features needed for multiuser support. It might as well have been classic MacOS. Citrix had a multiuser version of OS/2 with security tacked on, but it wasn't a realistic solution and was never popular. Building an OS without security was the moronic decision that killed it. Plus IBM never did anything meaningful to promote it so nobody cared. That it was used anywhere (especially in ATMs) was a horrible decision itself because of the lack of security features and has created untold woes. Maybe nobody ever got fired because they bought IBM, but they should have.
It is neither right or wrong
It's wrong. The processor has a feature. People will reasonably assume they can use that feature. Then they find out it's disabled.
assuming the features or lack thereof is declared upfront.
If that declaration is not in the largest font size used in the materials then it's hidden.
When I see things like "facial age verification", I have major concerns, whether we're talking about a site like Roblox (whatever that is — I don't know, and don't really care), social media, porn, or any other site. How are you going to do it without violating the privacy of every person who creates an account? And how are you going to verify that the person using the account is the person who created it without causing an even bigger privacy violation?
We do need some sort of age verification system, but we need it to be designed in a way that protects privacy. I have less than zero faith in any individual website to come up with such a system, and approximately zero faith in any individual government to do so. There really needs to be an international age verification working group that spends the next five years coming up with a system, then pressures everyone to implement it.
Doing it the other way around, with companies or governments shoveling bad, partial, or even dangerous solutions to the problem down everyone's throats, can only result in greater levels of push-back by the general public towards a proper scheme if someone ever creates it.
Kiss your keyboard goodbye!
