Been here a good while, come most days...guess I like the place although Dice sure did their best to ruin it. Glad I stuck it through, and "thanks" for the positive changes.
Against the flow, (but then again, I am a BSD neckbeard), don't listen to the bunnies screaming for UTF8.
It'll increase your attack surface, hence give you a butthurt of work if you do it right, for...what?
I've never seen a funny or insightful post that would have somehow been more hilarious or intelligent if it had accents in it.
One of my clients issued me with one of the Nokia Winphones; it's OK although the UI is less refined than an iPhone or my Android. (To save your alarm settings you click on an icon of an old floppy disk...wtf???) my kids certainly did not find it attractive... The integrated Edge browser sucks on most sites...and the inbuilt GPS is so poor that even though (amazingly) Waze is about the only useful app available for it, it's effectively useless. The integration with Office, Outlook etc however is superb.
But...where are the apps? Apart from Waze virtually no apps I find useful are available.
Microsoft, why are you prepared to piss away billions on dumb projects but then not use your cash pile to go after this segment in a less half-assed way? To break the iOS / Android duopoly you need to spend big. 1. Google gives away Android; pay OEMs to install Winphone 10 or whatever the heck it is called these days. Better still, launch a bunch of cheapo but secure smartphones for India, China etc. and reposition Nokia as a premium brand. Bribe Bose and others to bring out high-end speakers and shit for the hipsters. Throw in a custom connector while you're at it for added "cool". But make the battery replaceable and include an SD card slot on "neckbeard" models. 2. Many of us recall the Zune and WinCE fiascos where plenty of devs got royally fucked-over. Don't give away dev kits; PAY PEOPLE CASH to take them; bonus cash when the app is published, real large cash payment if it hits the top 100. 3. Kick start the process by bribing the top 100 Android and iOS app devs to port to Winwhateverthefuckitscalledthesedays 4. Make the devices really secure and include online upgrades for life. No ifs, no buts, no exceptions. If the FBI gets tough, relocate to Ireland and save a bundle on tax like Pfizer just did. 5. With your new secure platform, give away a decent chunk of end to end encrypted storage and mail 6. Now that Goole has EOL Picasa, develop a clone, make it free, tightly couple with phone 7. Finally have an import / merge contacts tool that WORKS! 8. Bribe the crap out of the car manufacturers to provide them with in-car systems that run Winwhatsitcalled. Buy a few big OEMS who make car infotainment and control systems while you are at it..... Profit!
Enough mdsolar OMG NOOOKS!!! crap posted by Timothy. Please stop. Yes, the nuclear industry has a shameful record of covering up incidents and accidents but this sort of bullshit does not further the debate.
In many areas of the world, including shamefully plenty of parts of the USA, you struggle to get much past dial-up speed. My whizz-bang latest cellphone included; outside perfect conditions even viewing a low-res video on Youtube can be painful. So, how will the FB servers pump VR-quality output to us?
(a) Your idiot - sorry "IoT" - device is a simple, locked down fairly "dumb" thing that is secured by design, or (b) It's a fully-functional computer with a sophisticated OS that presents the same attack surface as a Mac, Windows or Linux box but, unfortunately, without the same knowledge base. i.e. You're going to have to throw serious resources at the thing to make it "secure". For a device that will retail for a few bucks.... Google struggle to do it for Android; what's the betting that these things will continue to be buggy and insecure as hell?
In a just, sensible world, of course you could. In our current reality, by buying and activating the thing, you will have of course have "accepted" the EULA which absolves them off all responsibility for absolutely anything, up to and including global warming, shooting your dog, raping your kids and the device being equipped with such hilariously poor security that a blind-drunk Neandertal could crack it with a 1980-era Nokia.
Most of posts here are quite rightly burying mdsolar as the biased shill (s)he is. 5 mSv is zip, nada, nothing... @Whipslash, please ban the idiot. Tim, get with the program and stop falling for this crap, even if it's good for a bunch of flaming posts.
The only counter-rant I will offer is that this information purports to come from TepCo and....they've been proven many times to be completely full of shit. So, yea, voting conflicted on this one,
Think you mean off-site, and not synchronized and off-line... Yes, I do hard" encrypted backups but between "da cloud" hype and, frankly the convenience of on-line solutions ranging from Gdrive to rolling an OwnCloud server (great! try it) there's probably a whole bunch of folks for whom "off site backup" actually means "another unsecure attack surface"
That was kinda my point; the poor sap has done nothing wrong but still feels the need to go for "immunity". How fucked-up a "justice" system is that? Not sure how the heck that will protect him from the dowdy twin-set when a desperate America picks her over Trump anyways...
So, the little fish, who certainly did nothing wrong in setting up a mail server, gets immunity in exchange for all he knows, or can be persuaded to "remember". Although I'm far from being a Clinton fan, (either of them), there's something sinister about a justice system that feels it necessary to "grant immunity" (often in exchange for unspecified "co-operation") rather than just being confident enough in itself to say "hey, you've done nothing wrong, but we would like to call you as a witness where your civic duty is to tell the truth".
No vision? Well, arguably NASA has served its purpose; founded to "beat the Commies" after Sputnik "terrorized" the USA by orbiting over it, and then the Sovs. got the first human in orbit, NASA was successful in beating them to the moon. With a bit of help from some ex-nazi scientists and engineers... An amazing achievement, but it was always a "because it's there" kind of thing. Kennedy's remarkable "we choose to go to the moon" speech made no mention of establishing permanent moon colonies; that was never the vision.
So after that box was ticked, and the Space Shuttle disaster, NASA pretty much drifted into a quagmire of political infighting and over-communication. Sad really.
Why oh why do we have to keep shooting ourselves in the foot? OK I'm a BSD user so, well, stones and glass houses, but even so the open source community's continuing ability to why things should not be allowed is depressing...most people in our crowd want our stuff to be USED by as many people as possible...
NYC can be very cold in winter, and trying to hear your correspondant in the street can be hard with the background noise. Too bad that most of the time they were busted, and/or full of vomit, piss and a loony... I fear the same thing will happen to these; they'll be smashed and graffitied to death in minutes
My entire family switched to "3" for both mobile and home use a while ago. We saved a ton of money and everything works as advertised; much better than older rivals for less money. The kit they bundle with the home line is impressive and very geek-friendly too...
This from the article:
"The release indicates that the ad-blocking will not be absolute and non-negotiable, and lays out three goals for the transition: that Three’s customers should not pay data charges to receive adverts, the cost of which should instead be borne by the advertiser; that customers need to be protected from mobile ads which mine and exploit customer data without their consent or awareness; that customers should be protected from ‘excessive, intrusive, unwanted or irrelevant adverts’.
A spokesman for Three says ‘Irrelevant and excessive mobile ads annoy customers and affect their overall network experience. We don’t believe customers should have to pay for data usage driven by mobile ads. The industry has to work together to give customers mobile ads they want and benefit from.’"
Well, I agree totally! Some sites, (including/.) are almost unusable when browsed on a mobile with a slow connection.
Partially true. The real reason for this is also that the best way to get "disappeared" in pretty much all of the former USSR, (you think Russia is bad - try Belarus), is to piss of either Putin and his cronies or the local mafia. Often the same thing, of course. Now, imagine if some boss or his arm candy gets hit by this thing; the authors are going to be found and put to death in some public and painful way pretty fast...
Brilliant. Let's go back to the Cold War and turn Russian into North Korea 2 Thus ensuring that the many, many decent and civilised Russian who rely on the Internet for objective news get walled-off like generations of poor bastards did behind the iron curtain.
Also, If NATO did precisely fucking nothing effective after the annexation of Crimea and the continuing atrocities in Ukraine and now Syria, do you really think they'll do something like you propose about Android Malware?
Well, I'm sure than one went pretty quickly into the "too hard" round file in the corner. Especially when they found out that it was hard to monetize...
It's amazing the crap people put up with, (spam, unsecured email) It's probably our fault; we've done a reasonable job managing the spam, (which is visible to the user) and a crap one convincing our users and managers to demand secure, encrypted email.
So after reading the fine article, it's apparently stuff that's only about one atom thick. So, pedant maybe, but for me while that's pretty damn thin, it's still three-dimensional. Blame the bullshit and sensationalism that seems to have to accompany even new announcement today. In a scientific article, can we just have the facts without the crap? That would be a good new direction for/. to take.
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" Only for special purpose [sic] like a support call from a customer..."
Or the NSA, FBI, CIA...
Been here a good while, come most days...guess I like the place although Dice sure did their best to ruin it.
Glad I stuck it through, and "thanks" for the positive changes.
Against the flow, (but then again, I am a BSD neckbeard), don't listen to the bunnies screaming for UTF8.
It'll increase your attack surface, hence give you a butthurt of work if you do it right, for...what?
I've never seen a funny or insightful post that would have somehow been more hilarious or intelligent if it had accents in it.
One of my clients issued me with one of the Nokia Winphones; it's OK although the UI is less refined than an iPhone or my Android.
(To save your alarm settings you click on an icon of an old floppy disk...wtf???) my kids certainly did not find it attractive...
The integrated Edge browser sucks on most sites...and the inbuilt GPS is so poor that even though (amazingly) Waze is about the only useful app available for it, it's effectively useless.
The integration with Office, Outlook etc however is superb.
But...where are the apps? Apart from Waze virtually no apps I find useful are available.
Microsoft, why are you prepared to piss away billions on dumb projects but then not use your cash pile to go after this segment in a less half-assed way? To break the iOS / Android duopoly you need to spend big. ....
1. Google gives away Android; pay OEMs to install Winphone 10 or whatever the heck it is called these days. Better still, launch a bunch of cheapo but secure smartphones for India, China etc. and reposition Nokia as a premium brand. Bribe Bose and others to bring out high-end speakers and shit for the hipsters. Throw in a custom connector while you're at it for added "cool". But make the battery replaceable and include an SD card slot on "neckbeard" models.
2. Many of us recall the Zune and WinCE fiascos where plenty of devs got royally fucked-over. Don't give away dev kits; PAY PEOPLE CASH to take them; bonus cash when the app is published, real large cash payment if it hits the top 100.
3. Kick start the process by bribing the top 100 Android and iOS app devs to port to Winwhateverthefuckitscalledthesedays
4. Make the devices really secure and include online upgrades for life. No ifs, no buts, no exceptions. If the FBI gets tough, relocate to Ireland and save a bundle on tax like Pfizer just did.
5. With your new secure platform, give away a decent chunk of end to end encrypted storage and mail
6. Now that Goole has EOL Picasa, develop a clone, make it free, tightly couple with phone
7. Finally have an import / merge contacts tool that WORKS!
8. Bribe the crap out of the car manufacturers to provide them with in-car systems that run Winwhatsitcalled. Buy a few big OEMS who make car infotainment and control systems while you are at it.
Profit!
Enough mdsolar OMG NOOOKS!!! crap posted by Timothy.
Please stop.
Yes, the nuclear industry has a shameful record of covering up incidents and accidents but this sort of bullshit does not further the debate.
+1 funny.
Was a dumb question anyway; in India NOTHING stops for anything...except perhaps a cow in the street.
In many areas of the world, including shamefully plenty of parts of the USA, you struggle to get much past dial-up speed.
My whizz-bang latest cellphone included; outside perfect conditions even viewing a low-res video on Youtube can be painful.
So, how will the FB servers pump VR-quality output to us?
They really tout the Snapdragon as an IoT device? Well, seems so:
https://developer.qualcomm.com...
I think these people need to realise that either;
(a) Your idiot - sorry "IoT" - device is a simple, locked down fairly "dumb" thing that is secured by design, or
(b) It's a fully-functional computer with a sophisticated OS that presents the same attack surface as a Mac, Windows or Linux box but, unfortunately, without the same knowledge base. i.e. You're going to have to throw serious resources at the thing to make it "secure".
For a device that will retail for a few bucks....
Google struggle to do it for Android; what's the betting that these things will continue to be buggy and insecure as hell?
In a just, sensible world, of course you could.
In our current reality, by buying and activating the thing, you will have of course have "accepted" the EULA which absolves them off all responsibility for absolutely anything, up to and including global warming, shooting your dog, raping your kids and the device being equipped with such hilariously poor security that a blind-drunk Neandertal could crack it with a 1980-era Nokia.
Most of posts here are quite rightly burying mdsolar as the biased shill (s)he is. 5 mSv is zip, nada, nothing...
@Whipslash, please ban the idiot.
Tim, get with the program and stop falling for this crap, even if it's good for a bunch of flaming posts.
The only counter-rant I will offer is that this information purports to come from TepCo and....they've been proven many times to be completely full of shit.
So, yea, voting conflicted on this one,
Think you mean off-site, and not synchronized and off-line...
Yes, I do hard" encrypted backups but between "da cloud" hype and, frankly the convenience of on-line solutions ranging from Gdrive to rolling an OwnCloud server (great! try it) there's probably a whole bunch of folks for whom "off site backup" actually means "another unsecure attack surface"
That was kinda my point; the poor sap has done nothing wrong but still feels the need to go for "immunity".
How fucked-up a "justice" system is that?
Not sure how the heck that will protect him from the dowdy twin-set when a desperate America picks her over Trump anyways...
So, the little fish, who certainly did nothing wrong in setting up a mail server, gets immunity in exchange for all he knows, or can be persuaded to "remember".
Although I'm far from being a Clinton fan, (either of them), there's something sinister about a justice system that feels it necessary to "grant immunity" (often in exchange for unspecified "co-operation") rather than just being confident enough in itself to say "hey, you've done nothing wrong, but we would like to call you as a witness where your civic duty is to tell the truth".
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
Posted last Saturday by....Timothy...Huzza!
I've nothing against the Pi but this relentless boosting of it is getting tedious.
No vision? Well, arguably NASA has served its purpose; founded to "beat the Commies" after Sputnik "terrorized" the USA by orbiting over it, and then the Sovs. got the first human in orbit, NASA was successful in beating them to the moon. With a bit of help from some ex-nazi scientists and engineers...
An amazing achievement, but it was always a "because it's there" kind of thing.
Kennedy's remarkable "we choose to go to the moon" speech made no mention of establishing permanent moon colonies; that was never the vision.
So after that box was ticked, and the Space Shuttle disaster, NASA pretty much drifted into a quagmire of political infighting and over-communication.
Sad really.
Close, but "communism" vs. "American freedom" would be the pitch...
Why oh why do we have to keep shooting ourselves in the foot?
OK I'm a BSD user so, well, stones and glass houses, but even so the open source community's continuing ability to why things should not be allowed is depressing...most people in our crowd want our stuff to be USED by as many people as possible...
Excellent! I wonder how much extra science could be done if the all under-utilised kit lying around in the world's militaires was donated...
Since I hear they've hired Samzenpus and Timothy as the Eds.
The actual article is here:
http://researchcenter.paloalto...
NYC can be very cold in winter, and trying to hear your correspondant in the street can be hard with the background noise.
Too bad that most of the time they were busted, and/or full of vomit, piss and a loony...
I fear the same thing will happen to these; they'll be smashed and graffitied to death in minutes
My entire family switched to "3" for both mobile and home use a while ago.
We saved a ton of money and everything works as advertised; much better than older rivals for less money.
The kit they bundle with the home line is impressive and very geek-friendly too...
This from the article:
"The release indicates that the ad-blocking will not be absolute and non-negotiable, and lays out three goals for the transition: that Three’s customers should not pay data charges to receive adverts, the cost of which should instead be borne by the advertiser; that customers need to be protected from mobile ads which mine and exploit customer data without their consent or awareness; that customers should be protected from ‘excessive, intrusive, unwanted or irrelevant adverts’.
A spokesman for Three says ‘Irrelevant and excessive mobile ads annoy customers and affect their overall network experience. We don’t believe customers should have to pay for data usage driven by mobile ads. The industry has to work together to give customers mobile ads they want and benefit from.’"
Well, I agree totally! Some sites, (including /.) are almost unusable when browsed on a mobile with a slow connection.
Partially true.
The real reason for this is also that the best way to get "disappeared" in pretty much all of the former USSR, (you think Russia is bad - try Belarus), is to piss of either Putin and his cronies or the local mafia.
Often the same thing, of course.
Now, imagine if some boss or his arm candy gets hit by this thing; the authors are going to be found and put to death in some public and painful way pretty fast...
Brilliant. Let's go back to the Cold War and turn Russian into North Korea 2
Thus ensuring that the many, many decent and civilised Russian who rely on the Internet for objective news get walled-off like generations of poor bastards did behind the iron curtain.
Also, If NATO did precisely fucking nothing effective after the annexation of Crimea and the continuing atrocities in Ukraine and now Syria, do you really think they'll do something like you propose about Android Malware?
Well, I'm sure than one went pretty quickly into the "too hard" round file in the corner.
Especially when they found out that it was hard to monetize...
It's amazing the crap people put up with, (spam, unsecured email)
It's probably our fault; we've done a reasonable job managing the spam, (which is visible to the user) and a crap one convincing our users and managers to demand secure, encrypted email.
So after reading the fine article, it's apparently stuff that's only about one atom thick. /. to take.
So, pedant maybe, but for me while that's pretty damn thin, it's still three-dimensional.
Blame the bullshit and sensationalism that seems to have to accompany even new announcement today.
In a scientific article, can we just have the facts without the crap?
That would be a good new direction for
now get off my three-dimensional lawn!