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You can also tap the power button five times in a row, which brings up the emergency screen (Power Off, Medical ID, SOS call), but also disables face recognition until a pin unlock has happened.

If you're not aware of it, you might want to look into Qubes[0], it's an OS that uses virtualisation tech to compartmentalise applications from each other (and the host OS). So you can use your browser of choice for all uses, just in different VMs configured to retain/discard data as you want.

[0] https://www.qubes-os.org/

It's in the scene in the hotel lift - Hackman gets Smith to remove various things, and stuffs the trackers in a foil crisp (aka chip) packet, and the techs lose tracking on them.

There's a short film on YouTube that explores that idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

It's a very strange experience hearing it!

Cosmic rays causing the errors has got me thinking about if the error rates vary with the time.

Do you get more/less errors when it's day time (due to the Sun)? Does the season affect it (axial tilt means you're more/less "in view" of the galactic core)?

I've been using Steam on Linux Mint for a few years, and generally everything Just Works(tm).

It looks like there'll be further models after the Three:

"I'm super excited about being able to produce a car that most people can afford," Musk said. "And there will be future cars that are even more affordable down the road."

"With something like the Model 3, it's designed such that roughly half the people can afford the car," he continued. "With fourth generation and smaller cars and what not, we'll ultimately be in the position where almost everyone will be able to afford the car."

From here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3062365/car-tech/elon-m...

It would probably come under the "Equipment Interference" section, which legalises hacking of devices.

I've got a couple of cheap VPS's with OpenVPN installed and the bandwidth/latency is best described as "intermittent", as there'll be a lost of hosts sharing it on the low end ones.

NordVPN is one I keep seeing talked about, so I'll be looking into them this weekend :)

Much as I'd like to think that signing this would make a difference, it won't :(

Theresa May has been pushing for this legislation (or variants thereof) for years now. The existing powers which this bill replaces expire at the end of the year, and so the line "We cannot allow {terrorists|child pornographers|money launderers} a safe space to hide online" will be trotted out, and anyone arguing against it will be labelled soft on terror, and unpatriotic...

That'd work fine for HTTP(S) data, I suspect the data capture would have to be done at the IP level by default, with per-protocol filters on top to capture additional data. Which is going to add complexity to the data capture equipment, plus an ongoing maintenance cost to keep on top of new/updated protocols.

I can't see the current government accepting the possibility that the Internet Bad Guys(tm) could just use a different protocol and avoid all logging.

There doesn't seem to be a technical definition of an 'Internet Connection Record', but from the factsheet[1], they:

"are records of the internet services that have been accessed by a device. They would include, for example, a record of the fact that a smartphone had accessed a particular social media website at a particular time."

and:

"ICRs do not provide a full internet browsing history. The ICRs do not reveal every web page that a person visited or any action carried out on that web page."

How this will work in practice is anyones guess at the moment - every time I think of something short of logging every packet header sent/received in the UK (which leads to a staggering amount of data needing to be logged), I think of things that would slip though (and therefore wouldn't fulfil the first statement)...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

If they're charging more than cost for the electricity, they can just re-invest the extra money, and it ceases to be profit.

There's a third type as well - 'Shadow Mode' where the software is running constantly but the driver is in full control.

So if there's an accident, Tesla can check to see if the autopilot would/could have avoided it. If they can turn round to lawmakers and say that "X% of accidents could be avoided if hands-off autopilot was legal" it should help speed up the regulatory side of things.

Proof of ability to potential customer? Checking that their command and control software works?

I doubt you'd notice a difference on the device unless you were doing something network/CPU intensive on it, even then, it'd just seem slow.

Source?

The gateway is needed to route outside of the local subnet, so if the bulb is 192.168.1.17, it can talk to anything in 192.168.1.0/24 (presuming a standard home user setup), but anything else would get 'no route to host' errors on initial connection attempts.

You'd need to configure the DHCP to hand out these kinds of leases by MAC address though, as I can't see vendors agreeing on a way to easily restrict the devices net access! :-/

My first thought would be to set the default gateway to 127.0.0.1. It should mean that they can't route packets to anything outside their LAN?

They'll still need to spend resources (and so will earn reduced profit) updating processes/code/etc to comply with the regs, plus ongoing costs to ensure compliance.

From Bad Astronomy, El Niño accounts for around 0.1C globally: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/07/20/june_201...

Windows 7 64 bit here - it just has the error message box, and the same text in the cmd window, it doesn't open the file though :)

"This version of foo.txt is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."

They put the distance at 440−190+180  Mpc. 440 megaparsecs is is around 1.2 billion light years away(!).

I found that learning how one aspect (mining, farming, food, booze, fortifications, military, trading, etc) at a time helped.

I'd figure out how to get one aspect working (starting with the farming -> food/booze aspect), then something Fun would happen. I'd start a new game, figure out how to avoid that type of Fun, then get clobbered by another sort :D

For now, yes. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a "Windows Premium Edition" that's subscription based to remove the ads in the next few years. They can test the water with that, then start adding exclusive features to the paid version over time.

Could you use the Google Drive program and then sync that folder to your local machine?

The initial investment would be significant yes, but Mars isn't anywhere near as space constrained as much as the ISS.

Once you've got enough people and supplies, you can build farms, which means less food needs to be shipped out, freeing capacity for other goods. Presumably a lot of the infrastructure will be shipped out long before people are, so all they need to do is collect things from the supply drops, then assemble and expand.

Get the Mars colony to self sufficiency and the cost to Earth will trend to zero.

I'd think that even if they can't use the leaked data in a prosecution, it'll give them some very good ideas on who needs to be thoroughly audited, and will provide some useful information for financial patterns that might indicate illegal activity in future.

Yes - Mythbusters used it for the Alcatraz escape episode to see where the likely landing point of the improvised raft was, as it's an accurate model of the tides and flows of the area :)

Presumably something that would tell the avionics that:

'Radar system X (location ...), working on frequencies (...), using these waveform patterns (...), is effective out to range Y, is only effective above altitude Z'

Which would prompt the pilot with a warning if it's detected in operation (as you can detect radar before it can detect your return signature) to reduce altitude if needed?

Not sure on the viability of it, but couldn't there be something in place that states that fines can only be levied at a maximum 10%/month of the UBI?

So if you get a parking ticket (presumably <1% UBI), you can just pay it, but if you get a large fine (20% UBI), you'd pay it off in two monthly payments of 10% each.

You'd probably need something in place to intervene if someone's constantly paying 10% every month due to multiple fines to prevent people racking up daft amounts of fines and just 'living on 90%'