> A criminal gang operating in India kidnapped and tortured cryptocurrency traders in recent weeks before demanding 80 bitcoins as ransom, police say. Three men had been held captive for 15 days inside a high-rise building and were beaten or tortured... Not even their family members were aware of the abduction. The victims had lost all hope because they had no access to anyone
Fake IDs in EU don't really work, since anyone who really cares (banks, police, ...) will just read the info from the machine readable zone and run that against the relevant database. So EU IDs are more like a web-server session cookie, you can't just make one up.
Those just analyze photos for photoshop artifacts for a CYA receipt. They don't verify that the ID info is real.
That's next to useless under identity fraud / attacks any more sophisticated than MS Paint level skills. You're severely underplaying how easy it is to fake documentation and the attacks it enables.
I had to verify my identity for an online service a while back. They used a third party company that has a mobile phone app essentially for video conferencing; you then call this company via the app and talk to them. They ask you to show your face and move around and to show your ID, including moving it around so they can check that the security hologram (this was an EU passport) is indeed one. So for this kind of check MS Paint skills would not be enough by far.
I guess they had no way of verifying that the ID info is real, but apparently this process was trustworthy enough for their client.
Maybe, but you can say that about anything that is not in-person face-to-face communication along with physically handing over the passport for inspection. I think the process was pretty rigorous for the current state of the art, and infinitely better than the normal approach of mailing around PDFs into which I have pasted a scan of my signature.
Wasnt that bad. H.264 ratified in 2003, meanwhile even first Xbox released in 2001 (~celeron 733MHz) can play H.264 480p 2.5Mbit (DVD resolution, equal quality to 10Mbit mpeg2) movies with ease, just as desktop budget processors released in 2001 (Celeron 800/Duron 800, both included SSE).
Higher resolutions were another matter. 720p needed at least 2GHz Athlon/2.8GHz P4 for smooth H.264 720p 5Mbit playback. Either top of the line 2003 CPUs, or 2006-2007 budget ones.
H.264 1080p 30Mbit bluray released in 2006 could be decoded purely in software on top of the line 2006-2007 CPUs (dual core P4, A64 X2).
Popular doesn't mean good. In fact Electron is born out of the idea that developer productivity and comfort is everything and performance is a secondary concern.
These apps seem to be popular with device manufacturers. I have the displeasure of using two such apps, both have crap usability and custom UIs that don't make any effort to integrate with the platform. One of them doesn't even respond to the quit shortcut.
> These apps seem to be popular with device manufacturers.
All apps written by device manufacturers are crap, regardless of what they are written in. It has nothing to do with Electron, just with the fact that they only know how to do hardware, and are clueless on the software side.
The apps function correctly, it's the UI that is the problem.
It's modern looking, but obviously not native and doesn't respect some platform idioms or shortcuts, so all in all it's a subpar experience. This is completely related to Electron and would not happen for a native app, where the framework takes care of the look & feel and integration.
If every app were written like this, we'd end up with scores of slightly inconsistent apps, all of them trying to be unique and cool and resulting in a mediocre platform. i.e. Windows.
Also, Tesla's dashboard user interface is apparently built on Qt. I honestly would not feel safe in a car built around Electron, even if it's just the UI.
Telegram for desktop. Easily the most usable "modern" (read: not IRC) instant messaging client available today in terms of features, responsiveness, and portability.
Wrong. Science must absolutely be activist, they are in the best position to improve society and combat fascist movements.
Nature itself said it:
> As if full-time research weren't time-consuming and challenging enough, nanophysicist Michael Stopa embraced a second occupation while at the bench: politics.
Indeed. But we need to go further than that. There are (a few) scientists which identify with the Right, or worse, challenge some climate change facts. They should be fired, we can't have science legitimize fascists movements or throw doubt on established science facts.
Uh. This is exactly what is wrong with scientist pairing their results and methodology with politics.
> They should be fired, we can't have science legitimize fascists movements.
Ok, if you want to get rid of a strong scientific community continue on with this fantasy. Propagandists making things up should be exiled.
The climate change assertions should be challenged. That's apart of the scientific method. You don't publish directly to a respected journal. Also, correlation does not imply causation.
Their unbiased* findings should assist in the creation of solutions which involve policymakers. It's not a scientists' job to make a decision that affects everyone.
Unbiased means: As unbiased as you can get. Get it peer-reviewed. Work with others to test out effective change strategies to avoid unintended consequences, present options, accept failure. (Yes, that last one is the biggest thing)
Exactly. These butts are highly problematic. They promote an unhealthy and unattainable butt image. We need more butt diversity, more real butts - thicc butts, old butts, slagging butts.
How it will play out in reality is, a female presenter who presents a slide with a butt in it will be considered to be indulging in "lol so random XD" humor and given a pass, but if a male presenter used a similar slide it would be a CoC violation, the punishment for which is a summary ban from all open source conferences forever.
