A restoration expert in Egypt has been arrested for stealing a 3,000 year old bracelet and selling it purely for the gold content, with the bracelet then melted down with other jewellery. Obviously, this sort of artefact CANNOT be replaced. Ever. And any and all scientific value it may have held has now been lost forever. It is almost certain that this is not the first such artefact destroyed.
For that you would want to focus on free energy and food replicators because once you have that, there's not much reason to work anymore.
No matter what, you're still going to need someone in a red shirt to duck into the circuit bays and reverse the polarity.
I take it your LED lights at home are at least 1500 lumens and 6000k?
Someone didn't live through the loss of the floppy drive, DB9 ports, and parallel ports.
In my day, to plug in a mouse: We took the box apart, installed a proprietary bus card, and then tried to figure out non-conflicting spots for the I/O and IRQ jumpers. Then we typed a bunch of gibberish into AUTOEXEC.BAT. And we liked it!
If I knew that, I'd be a tech billionaire inventing them.
The best part of innovations is that they are NOT obvious, but once they are in the world, you can't do without.
Not at all. Free citizens picking lettuce on a corporate-owned ranch is the American Dream!
It's better than medieval serfdom was because you're FREE!!! You could even prove it by wearing a giant bald eagle and flag T-shirt while you work!!!
A whole bunch of opportunities have recently opened up to US citizens for picking lettuce.
the company has, in the pursuit of easy profits, constrained the space in which it innovates.
Quite so. It's been how many years since something really new came out of Cupertino? Granted, Apple is more profitable than ever, but the company clearly shows what the result of placing a supply-chain expert as the CEO does.
The really sad part is that there's nobody ELSE, either. Microsoft hasn't invented anything ever, Facebook and Google are busy selling our personal data to advertisers, and who else is there who can risk a billion on an innovation that may or may not work out?
At least Nixon had the class not to force his minions to take all of the credit for the Apollo missions in their press releases.
That's what Trump did here: Same as usual he took all of the credit for other peoples' work.
You wonder why he gets under peoples' skin? It's because essentially everything he does is some kind of asshole move like this.
Yeah, that's why everyone gives Nixon credit for putting a man on the moon.
Apple fans already have a heartrate sensor on their wrist, they don't need one from the ear.
That's wrong. I stopped using wrist watches 25 years ago and haven't looked back a single day. I don't want shit on my wrist. Try living without for a year and you'll realize why. It's hard to express in words. It's like having a chain removed.
Headphones, on the other hand, I use occasionally. For phone calls or for music on the train, plane, etc. - and especially for the plane if the noise cancellation comes close to my current over-the-ear Bose I'd take them on the two-day business trips where I travel with hand luggage only and space is a premium.
Do I want a heartbeat sensor? No idea. I don't care. But if there's any use for it than at least for me that's not a replication. I'm pretty sure many, many Apple users don't have a smart watch.
So he claims that social media - the platform where everyone pretends to be more happy, more active, better looking, more interesting, more travelled, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, - feels "fake" ?
Man.
Next he's going to say that artificial sweeteners taste might not be natural.
Seriously, though, social media has been the domain of bots for at least a decade. Even people who actually write their posts themselves use bots to cross-post to all the different platforms and at "optimal" times. Nothing on social media is not fake. Well, maybe your grandmother's photo album because she doesn't know Photoshop exists.
Amateur-level procedures have really run their course and do not cut it anymore.
Do you want to bet on the percentage of Fortune 500 companies that use amateur-level procedures for their prod systems?
"Above 50%" seems like a guaranteed win to me.
"Above 75%" is where I start to think "maybe not that high". But I fear I'm giving them too much credit.
Sheesh. Anti-Phishing training is so hard to do effectively.
It is impossible to do now that half of what we have always considered clear indicators of a scam or phishing attempt are actually being done by actual companies.
But the "m" in npm always stood for "malware", did it not?
The npm ecosystem is deeply flawed. Look at some of the affected repositories. Many of them are just a few lines of code, yet over a hundred other packages depend on them. At least half of them have no reason to even exist. A lot of them have last been updated years ago.
We have an ecosystem where seemingly every individual function has its own package. That is just ridiculous. It is modularization driven to its absurd extreme. It's why you add one package to your project and it pulls in a hundred dependencies.
And the more tiny packages there are, the larger the attack surface and the smaller the amount that can be monitored for malware injection and other problems. I wouldn't at all be surprised if one or more of these packages will never be updated and have the malware in them forever simply because the only dev with the password to the repo has since died or gone to do other things with his life.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford
