How does watching movies on a laptop rather than a TV create "Time. I have time. Lots of it". I think he's missing the part in his life where you can own something without having to use it all the damn time.
Slightly puzzled how this is a surprise. I've been amazed that they've managed to sell hardware without any of their own support for some time. Nobody else gets away with it unless it's rebadged for someone who does have a call centre
I found switching the screen brightness setting from (A) auto to a set level and this fixed what appeared to be a flicker or constant changing of the brightness level. I was assuming it was software related, however my issue might be unrelated to yours.
I had that too. To fix the flickering, I found installing https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nnevod.log... and setting up my own (slightly brighter) curve made the problem go away. It seems the default auto algorithm doesn't sample the ambient light levels over a sufficiently long time period, resulting in too many small changes in brightness.
Pretty sure Google have already announced they'll release an iOS version of maps. That said it can't come soon enough. I've no idea how they've defined POIs on Apple's maps but they need to go back to the drawing board. Where I live there's a pedestrian zone which Apple say has a gas station in it. Worse is the gas station they say is in the middle of a heavily wooded park (neither of these are there obviously). Whilst I appreciate things can't be perfect, this is so far from perfect and has been since beta phases that I just think Apple is continuing their beta testing using all of us as testers.
The Google Maps app can't come soon enough; I'm only glad that I have TomTom and my car's built-in navigation to fall back on because I have no faith in the software Apple built.
Google executive Jeff Huber says: "We look forward to providing amazing Google Maps experiences on iOS."
While this more than likely means that they are going to create an app, it leaves it open enough that it could just mean that they're going to improve their mobile web app version of maps.
They essentially issued a "no comment" recently but wishy washily commited to supporting multiple operating systems.
I'd imagine they're hedging their bets. Working on an iOS version while improving the web app version because you never know what will happen in Apple's App review process.
I'm not sure why this is any sort of surprise. Ever since Kickstarter began there have been lots of great ideas, lots of awful ideas. Some of the great ideas have been clearly way too ambitious for small teams but people happily donate money. Given this isn't an investment and what you're doing is giving someone money to follow their dream, to my mind it's almost irrelevant if at the end you don't get your $30 lightbulb. You've lived vicariously through the Lifehacker in question and got to see something go to market or crash and burn.
It doesn't matter whether in other places it's not illegal; it isn't legal where he did it. Ignorance of the law is no excuse either so what you have is a rape suspect fleeing. It's not the same as the Polanski case admittedly but it's not like he was overdue on a library book
It's also a different thing. He's also wanted in the UK for breaching his bail conditions. So he not only has the extradition hanging over him but he's broken the law in the UK now.
The problem with this argument is nobody has produced any evidence to show Assange is 'persecuted'. Sweden issued a legitimate European Arrest Warrant, and the UK allowed Assange to appeal that to the highest court.
There is no evidence that he is being persecuted by the US in this matter: if Ecuador has some they should publish it.
> The problem with this argument is nobody has produced any evidence to show Assange is 'persecuted'.
Actually they have. Enough was presented to the Ecuadorian Government that they agreed he faced potential political prosecution. That's why he's been granted asylum.
> Sweden issued a legitimate European Arrest Warrant, and the UK allowed Assange to appeal that to the highest court.
Sweden issued an extremely unusual arrest warrant, and in the highest UK legal circles there is an opinion that the final Supreme court decision was simply wrong:
"The Supreme Court wrongly, and without any analysis, assumed that VCLT Article 31(3)(b) is applicable in the interpretation of secondary European acts such as the Framework Decision. It also neglected to look into the interpretative rules of the EU. The result was a fundamental mistake in the legal reasoning of the Court." [1]
Assange is a Western dissident. You don't have to like him or agree with WikiLeaks mission, but the actions against WikiLeaks have been highly political, and manouverings by Sweden, the UK, and the US in line with the actions of any states acting against dissidents through various channels.
It was of course fundamental to Assange's appeal that the validity of the extradition warrant be examined by the court, with respect to the precedents mentioned. The opinion referenced in the citation examines the claim made by Assange's own lawyers that some or all of these precedents had not been argued in court.
For the suspicious mind, it could be seen that a disinclination to examine in full the very matter presented for examination, is indicative of at worst, bias, and at worst, as argued in the citation, error. Any further avenue of appeal in the UK has been refused.
I also find it ironic that British courts are willing to refuse extradition requests for terrorism suspects, say to Jordan, when an ambiguity regarding their immunity from torture or death arises, but will apparently allow it in other cases.
He's not a UK citizen so that's not it. The Australians aren't calling for his extradition or arrest so that's not it either.
It could just be that he had bail terms set and broke them and the Swedes want a chat about those pesky rape allegations. Don't invent something where it doesn't exist.
Obviously he has every right to be paranoid about the US trying to extradite him but you have to wonder how far he's willing to go on this. I think the Assange story long ago eclipsed the Wikileaks story (look how little attention Bradley Manning gets) and if he was prosecuted and convicted of rape in Sweden and had to do jail time there, I think the story would only be remembered for Assange. No need for a very messy public trial after extradition, no need for the miles of bad press it would generate.
Lots of sales organisations do this but clearly for them, the volume of sales and customer churn are quantifiable. Quite how you rank 10 engineers in a non-emotional way is a bit of a puzzle.
Just wondering; how does this differ from products like StopTheHacker and SiteLock (amongst others)? I mean, the idea is a solid one, but there's a few players in this arena already.
Sites like those generally in the business of seal-selling or doing very light security checks.
Many of them will only report out of date vulnerabilities (quick & easy to check) or very simple issues limited issues. Still a legit business obviously. Though the benefits are limited. Best way to check this, get a scan request and watch your logs. Most of them won't even do a POST request. How can you really check for vulnerabilities unless you test all the functionality in a web application?
I guess we should explain this in our website to distinguish ourselves from that pack.
From the article - "The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers."
No it doesn't. It underscores the vulnerabilities of not understanding your hosting and accepting the "no outages" slogans of ANY cloud. A single data centre is always susceptible to outages like this, it doesn't matter who owns it. If any of those sites had owned a single data centre that was hit by storm damage, the impact would be the same. I know this is supposed to be the year of the cloud backlash but even so...
Exactly. Anyone running their own data center would be subject to exactly this kind of outage, and wouldn't have access to the many, many resources that cloud providers make available to ensure successful fail-over.
Yes, I can see the "many, many resources" Amazon is making available to you in this situation. Did they send you a rubber ball that you can squeeze while waiting for your servers to come back up?
Ah, I didn't know that. Sorry. (I don't remember where I heard about single-AZ but it seemed consistent with observation)
Is Heroku resilient against single-AZ failure (so only some subset of customers go down, and then it restarts), or is it exposed so that if any AZ goes down, core stuff also goes down? The sites I care about on Heroku seem to go down whenever any US-East badness happens at all, even if it is "limited to a single AZ" per Amazon.
Actually it shows the inability to rely on amazon. A storm causes a complete disaster? Where is the redundant connections? The independent power supply? Heck where is the storm drains?
Thats sort of what some large storms can do - esp when they come with a large amount of electrical activity in them. You can easily suffer all kinds damage to power system that generators can't deal with.
