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Ah.. I had assumed that meaning behind "Ron's piece" was that Ron hailed from Houston... and that JMJ dedicated the piece to Ron because of the recent tragedy.

:/

This exact video was my first (and only :) ) purchased pre-recorded VHS (in like 1991 or so, I think). I still have it.

Jean Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous Houston (VHS), 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVQ2o-PI9M

Fantastic collection of TV sound bites begins at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVQ2o-PI9M&t=57

This love of some french artist in Houston felt odd when I last rewatched this, about ten years ago. Loved the enthusiasm and openness shown in this video.

That kind of shit is so tiresome.

The second most plausible explanation kinda aligns with the reality in the first part, at least:

a crazy person staged this and then escaped (and maybe killed him/herself.)

.. either way, why is this interesting? (is it even ethical to make something like prominent?)

I would like to challenge my hard-core religious physics and biology teacher from 7th grade with this evidence. He kept giving me as low a grade as what was acceptable, while I still aced pretty much every test. (Sweden. Småland. 90s. I don't think this is an issue for todays kids.)

This thing made me think of the japanese-language-only, Sega Dreamcast-only 1999 "Marionette Handler" mech programming game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqcvhR568E

It was something else, at least back then. (I do remember thinking it would be really hard to play without having someone understanding at least basic japanese around.)

The programming screen is shown briefly here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqcvhR568E&t=188

I found this video from this web page, where there's more text and images: (Chrome with Google Translate works okayish.)

http://sesesega.blog90.fc2.com/blog-entry-940.html

> So unless you are able to link such a site then your not helping at all.

You are right, we are not helping at all with proving your unsubstantiated claim.

If you don't need something secure, get a Moto. Check.

..yes. Thanks for clarifying :).

Thanks! :)

(I still reckon my mom needs a new phone though, there are other less severe exploits out there for this non-updated device.)

I think the onus is on you.

Has that 1979 law been proven in court to be valid about the kind of things we are talking about now, and can you link the specific cases, please? :=)

The EU loves creating standardized sticker layouts. In this case I would welcome it.

"Security updates guaranteed for: nn months"

or

"Security updates guaranteed until: YYYY/MM"

There should be a also scheme where companies who claim these things would have to deposit some calculated amount in some offical place.

(Btw, since so there's so much cheap crap being imported from china, I guess the most consumer-protecting approach would be to make both the reseller and producer responsible for the penalties resulting from a lack of security updates.)

My 73 year old mom is quite happy with the 2014 Moto G I got her three years ago. I guess she'll need something new now (No idea if it has a BCM wifi chipset, but I'm guessing so - how do you even find this out without having physical access to the device?).

I'm thinking Apple may be the way to go this time, because they maintain security updates for older devices for longer. (Seems like 5+ years.)

Another way of looking at this is that lacking security updates create unnecessary electronic/chemical pollution/waste. I think the EU should tackle this. I'm sure they could come up with some scheme for penalties for lacking security updates. (Does anyone know of any initiative in this area?)

Released yesterday. I hadn't gotten any update prompt yet. I'm guessing the (vast?) majority of iOS users haven't upgraded yet.

It's similarly bad:

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2016/bahrain

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2016/united-arab...

It would make the picture too cluttered, I think.

Here's a higher res copy of that nice cover art by Stephan Martiniere (http://www.martiniere.com/):

https://fsmedia.imgix.net/6c/17/d1/3e/0a61/470f/a3e8/85c1e77...

(Looks slightly upscaled, but probably from a better source than in the posted article.)

That's a nonstarter because of UAE's requirements on censorship and backdoored surveillance ("lawful intercept"). They're at least on the level of China in this regard, maybe even worse.

I know them, but those startup names are hardly household names even in Sweden.

No idea if any of this is true today, but here's what a quick google search found:

https://www.quora.com/Is-Amazon-planning-to-open-a-data-cent...

"Franco Austin, former Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services:

'Whilst South Africa only have a single energy provider, no. So the answer would be probably not soon, unless AWS plan to build their own energy provider, the requirements for a DC for AWS is that it has got 2 independent electricity providers on different grids. Thus I doubt if South Africa will see an AWS data center and I love to be proven wrong, at this stage I believe the best we can hope for in South Africa is a pop or edge location.'"

That's a slightly awkward looking reference customer list (assuming that's what it is).

This kind of legislation will likely spread spread across the EU.

Used a similar trick with an old Casio ages ago. Maybe it was a EX-10? not sure. I think it did 120 fps at 480p in like 2010.

I think they'll be caught with the pants down.

For instance: The government of Sweden just announced suggested legislation for june 2018 that will severely punish any new registrations of non-electric vehicles (the tax penalty is linear to the co2-emissions/driven km above a certain treshold.) I think it goes sort of halfway towards Norway's current policy. (Which is rather extreme, and something they as a nation can afford, being a major oil exporter.)

My 2006 Ford Focus Mk2 is horrible. But I got it crazy cheap. The noises it makes...

Norway dismissed buying Gripen from neighbouring Sweden to buy the non-working F35, claiming Gripen failed the technical evaluation of what a capable fighter needed to be able to.

In hindsight it seems obvious that they were less concentrated with actually getting a capable fighter anytime soon and a lot more concerned with, well, paying money to the US.

This has caused a rift between the two countries that is still lasting.

(Side-note: as a new HN user I really, really hate this throttling. I think I actually managed to submit this on the 9th try, waiting about ten minutes between each attempt. I kept seeing "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

I really, really don't think is good for conversion stats.)

Thanks.

Not american, but it seems like you have some information that you should contribute to your country's tax collection agency. I'm sure they would be grateful.

Do you/YC have any personal or financial connection to the "Open Philanthropy Project"? Just curious.