olympus

I’d guess that a lot of the encrypted systems had a password written on a sticky note on the desk or in the laptop bag. Encryption doesn’t do much unless you take the other sensible steps.

It’s more worrying to me that a doctor might not report a breach because the data is encrypted, but had the keys stolen along with the computer.

No recruiting, I started off by wanting to point out that military lawyers don't "make" captain, they are given that rank to start. Then I realized it sounded like a little like a recruitment talk so I decided to go all in.

Lawyers can commission directly as captains in the USAF (and probably other branches) as long as they are not too old and can pass the fitness test. I think they also have to have passed a bar exam in one state, but it doesn't matter which one. They can get up to $65k of student loans repaid and don't even have to go through the same basic training as everyone else.

So (b) is slightly less trivial than saying a successful lawyer would not make captain in the military because most lawyers are one conversation, a few signatures, and one oath away from being a captain.

So don't delay lawyers, join today!

Ah, I understand now. Increasing the index of the outer planets is what would make the fit better, and the asteroid belt is a good way to justify it (and happens to be consistent with some other theories about the solar system).

??? Adding a point in between two other points literally can't make something more linear, it can only make it less linear.

You need a system with more than two planets. A system with only two planets is going to be linearly spaced on any type of scale.

Once you've filtered out systems with two or fewer planets, you need orbital measurements with decent precision to tell whether a plot of planet spacing is actually linear on a log scale or not. Measuring a planet's orbit requires a decent amount of observation (since we can't measure star/planet mass directly and don't usually measure period directly), so unconfirmed systems likely don't have good measurements.

It's likely that most of the unmentioned systems get filtered out by one of the above two criteria.

Additionally, there are some specialist/professional apps that charge quite a bit and they would be screwed by a limit.

Example: the iPad is the defacto standard for electronic flight bags (digital charts for pilots), and the market rate is $75 per year. Higher end subscriptions with terrain awareness and instrument approaches are $150 per year. A rule designed to limit freemium games would hurt the EFB market on the iPad.

The article specifically says the Justice department is dripping the case because they have a new warrant and Microsoft is complying.

While the new law isn't the best, this particular course of action based on the law seems completely reasonable.

New law -> new warrant -> no reason to continue wasting government $$ on fighting a court case that now has federal law clarifying the issues. Microsoft gets to save some money as well.

Features like being required to delete (actually delete) your information if you request it. Features like being required to show you what they know about you.

Once you realize facebook/google/etc probably know better than you where you are going to eat lunch tomorrow you are going to opt out of everything you can, and that hurts their ability to sell targeted ads.

This is less attractive when you realize that all big companies will have a non-European subsidiary pay a non-European component of facebook for all their advertising needs, which would hugely lower the revenue base that 4% is calculated from.

Bulldozer and Piledriver worked fine, but never came close to "crushing" Intel's offerings. They were a decent option for specific workloads that only cared about parallel performance on a budget. If you cared at all about single threaded performance or had a few extra bucks, it was/is worth it to buy a comparable Intel offering for the entire lifecycle of Bulldozer and Piledriver.

Except it didn't crush most of Intel's stuff. It had more physical cores but lost in actual performance. That's why Ryzen was such a big deal, it's the first time AMD has been able to compete with Intel since the Athlon days.

Those have desktop class high TDP CPUs in them. The distinction here is that this is a low(ish) TDP CPU intended for laptops where battery life matters.

You're right, for some reason I was thinking Exynos wasn't ARM based because it wasn't Qualcomm- not sure why. That takes the list of ARM competition down to just the Chinese offerings, unless I'm mistaken about that.

Me too, but for a different reason. I feel like many privately held unicorns aren't really worth as much as their last VC investment would imply. If we get more of these companies publicly traded then we can see how much they are really worth, bringing a much needed correction to the tech startup investment scene. It's starting to look like the year 2000, but instead of a dot com bubble we have an "Uber for x" bubble and a couple other templates that get way too much investment money.

I'll offer a counter opinion. I subscribed to the New Yorker for almost a year. The New Yorker leans hard left politically and it was really tiring. I consider myself a moderate progressive and got tired of the condescending tone that most writers used against any person or group that wasn't like them. I feel like it's okay to have an opinion that's different than mine but you don't need to ridicule other people and shove it down their throats constantly. The majority of the articles they published were political.

There were the occasional gems but not enough to justify me continuing my subscription and wading through each issue. The good stories show up on longform.org anyway.

Being able to go toe to toe with low-power areas says little about being able to compete against full-power areas, and vice versa. Intel is a laughing stock when trying to compete in low power areas even though they dominate full power. ARM is the only choice in low power outside of a few Chinese chips and Samsung's Exynos, but yet ARM hasn't made a dent in full power applications. The two areas do not scale as easily as they sound.

Intel has been iterating their design decades longer and was in stiff competition for much of that time period. They will be hard to catch in the desktop/laptop space for anyone starting with a cell phone CPU.

ARM has not had real competition in their market, most chipmakers are licensing ARM tech, so they should be easier to catch up to, which Apple has done (with a healthy dose of borrowed ideas from ARM).

Right, but what they've said is "we've lost TM and it's going to deorbit sometime in the future. We'll watch it and keep you posted." Which is all well and good until you realize what they haven't said, and they've had more than a year to say it:

What they haven't said is "the reason it's going to deorbit at an unspecified time instead of an exact time is because we've lost control so we can't do a controlled reentry burn to have it splash harmlessly in the Pacific. So if it puts a few redhot hunks of ceramic through an apartment building there's nothing we can do. Sorry."

Everyone knows they've lost control, and it's not the first time a country has lost control of a satellite. But maybe they get some legal benefit out of not admitting the loss of control. Because otherwise they should confess, it's not like this is the first time a country has lost control of a satellite.

As signatories of the Outer Space Treaty they should give a heads up to the international community, and are liable for any damage that's caused by this event even if they provide warning (but could probably get out of it with enough political double talk).

What's interesting to me is that China haven't officially admitted to losing control of the station, they have only admitting to lost telemetry- so we must rely on external sensors to track it. I suspect (but don't have any real information on why) that they are doing this to avoid some sort of admission of guilt in the event that it ends up hitting a populated area. I'm not entirely sure but admitting you lost control of an orbiting school bus might be seen similarly to a kid that accidentally breaks your window with a baseball- it wasn't intentional, but that kid is still paying for the window. If your window gets hit by something, but the kid never admits that it was his ball ("gee mister, I lost my ball yesterday but I'm pretty sure it didn't go in your backyard"), then maybe he can get away without paying for it.

I suspect there is some nuance here that needs to be considered and was probably brought up in the numerous court cases regarding dumpster diving.

While it's okay to be nervous about cops stealing your DNA from your trash, it's fine for someone to pick up my unwanted microwave that I put on the curb. The hard part is where to draw the line in between these cases, and it seems like right now the courts have decided it's just easier not to draw a line at all.

The classic "think about the children" case: What if we find kiddy porn in someone's trash? Should we convict that person or should they be allowed to go free because the courts decided that personal pictures are protected?

Another mitigating factor is that the cops are going through someone's trash because they suspect the person of a crime. The cops aren't going through people's trash on whims. There is a possibility that corrupt cops are going through someone's trash to ruin their life, but this is pretty uncommon. And if they find something, then the outcome is a dirty person taken down by dirty cops.

For citizens and generic criminals going through someone's trash, how much is the original owner's fault if their identity gets stolen because they didn't shred their paper info? Sure, it's still illegal to steal my identity even if I don't shred, but now I bear some of the responsibility myself. This is similar to if my house gets robbed because I left my front door open. The criminals are still at fault but now I bear some responsibility by leaving my door open.

A better option is to just own up to being a dumpster diver and look in everybody's trash cans on the street. There's a plausible cover story that you want to maybe get some valuable rich-people trash (maybe a Juicero) and it's not illegal. Looking through everybody's trash makes you a wierdo and not somebody targeting Zuck, which makes the bodyguards less likely to do anything. Also, do it before pickup time.

If Zuck's bodyguards actually stop you then you might have a story. But right now the story is made of completely imagined things. Those bodyguards won't touch you until you try something stupid, like climbing Zuck's fence.

I'm a little disappointed that I wasted seven minutes reading the story as written. More follow-up would have been nice. He could have tried the next Wednesday since his first trip was over two weeks ago.

500 is effectively unlimited compared to the 22 GB that AT&T throttles you at on their native plans.

My Cox internet also had a 500 GB warning.

Plus, Netflix HD streaming is about 3GB per hour. You can stream a two hour movie every night and only use 180 GB per month. I've never gotten to 500 GB, so it's effectively unlimited.

They're separate things. They are multi-function buttons on a throttle or stick.

Here's a castle picture in the link below- on the right side of the F-22's throttle you can see a large button that has angled sides and four tabs sticking out the top. The castle moves up/down/left/right and lets the pilot select targets and navigate menus. It's kind of like the eraser nub on ThinkPad computers, but bigger so you can use it with a gloved thumb : http://www.essexindustries.com/products/f-22-raptor-throttle...

Here's a boat (switch #1 in the link below)- Boats are only forward/back, and are often used as a do/undo option. Imagine pushing forward on the boat to designate a target for a missile, then deciding you don't want to kill that target. You'd pull back on the boat to un-designate the target. They are curved like the bottom of a boat, which gives them their name and lets your finger push forward and back: http://www.f-15e.info/joomla/technology/cockpit/81-pilot-thr...

Because a single PE teacher can manage five rotating classes of twenty kids throughout the day. If kids didn't rotate periods, then all 100 kids would take PE at the same time. That would require extra PE teachers, because one teacher cannot manage 100 kids. Multiply this effect by every different area (music teachers, art teachers, etc.) and you have to hire a bunch of extra teachers which is a waste of money. Plus, those teachers would only be busy for part of the day, so their wasting a lot of their time.

Box is slang for vagina.

It's a cultural thing. Fighter pilots play several games with each other, usually violating a rule means you have to pay money (the dead bug game and fixation on the number 69 are also interesting). They claim the games increase situational awareness, but it's really just an excuse to create a very tight culture (some would say exclusionary).

The best you can physically do is about 2 ms more lag than the fastest ground based system, and that's assuming you're only adding in the transit time from ground station -> satellite -> user.

So it possibly won't be a killer for video conferencing, but keep in mind that the USAF's current system for drone video has 2 seconds of one-way lag. There's three orders of magnitude between what we're currently doing and the physical limit.

SpaceX's system will undoubtedly be better than what is in use today, but even with two orders of magnitude improvement (a HUGE improvement) you're looking at adding 20 ms of lag on top of what you'd already have.

Grunts have to live with stuff because they have no other choice. Pilots are zipper suited gods whose complaints actually matter.

All joking aside, they have human factors experts work on the UI, and it must go through operational testing- passing isn't a requirement though- systems have been fielded with failing UI evaluations because they were super effective. But pilots still hate touchscreens even though a lot of thought was put into making them suck less.

It won't be as good as you think. This one is going right next to the Model 3 in Elon's book of things he'll technically deliver but will progressively dial back the claims before and after delivery.