Posts by Chris--S 17 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2013
They don’t get their modems from Qualcomm. My figures come from googling, so they could be wrong … but it is a sensible justification for trying to produce their own. From somewhere else, “About 21% of Qualcomm’s fiscal 2022 revenue of $44.2 billion came from Apple, according to a UBS estimate”, that’s more than just modem chips, but there is plenty in $8B for at least $2B on modems..
Not really the point. Supporting iOS Safari is pretty well a must, at least in the west. You’re shooting yourself in the foot if it doesn’t work right on iOS, and risking your invoices not being paid. It’s not as pad as the log IE6 days, but Safari is the outlier, most bugs to work around and most often holding back some “new thing” until all browsers support.
Let’s get real, this isn’t to get you into the bowels of the NSA or MI6, we’re really talking convenience and reduced crime & fraud.
Your card has a pin 1 in 10000 of a correct guess, that’s the “gold” standard here. Only that’s not the really what you have to beat, since tap & pay requires nothing more than possession of the card.
I’m already on board, I hardly ever tap, I much prefer fingerprint + tap via my phone.
In case anyone else wants to know if Google/Android does actually have a monopoly of the mobile OS market in Russia. From what I can gather, Android is at about 75% in Russia (Kantar, 2015) and Russian antitrust law goes goes with dominant position (monopoly) at 50% or more of the market (Wikipedia).
Where did this bit come from, "and the dwarf planet may have picked up its ice from the impacts of water-rich asteroids on its surface."?
Ceres composition is generally reckoned to be a large part ice, at least it's current location is about right for ice, its orbit being being around the ice line. The sort of thing Dawn's investigations will support or reject.
Tax dollars well spent. Go Dawn!
I make it ~9 cabinets per (old routemaster) DD bus. According to the marketing blurb[1], it's up to (initially*) 75TF per cabinet. So, 7.5PF, or more if they're the new buses.
* are these like windows PCs, they get slower with age?
1. http://www.cray.com/Products/Computing/XC/Specs/Specifications-XC40-AC.aspx
I don't know about this bending issue, but apple typically (at least in my experience) don't quibble, they just check the fault is real and then fix or replace the phone. No drama. For my iphone5 (no AppleCare), that's a new screen, then a new unit. As a side issue, it does raise questions about the durability of the things.
I want my authentication to include a secret.
Surely authentication needs to include identity + secret. Biometrics start being used to protect big amounts of money and you can bet a whole heap of ingenuity will be focused on forging/fooling biometric scanning devices.
The more flexible biometrics are made to cope with natural variations due to age, environment, injury and disease, the easier it'll become to fool the reading devices.
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