Your phone is much closer to a dumb terminal than a PC. Personal Computing was the rejection of the mainframe way, not the embracing of it, so no, i would not consider your phone a PC.
I have two main identities, my hotmail account that i have had since 1998 and my gmail account i have had since 2004. IM the same person and have the same risk regardless of which ID i give them...Judging risk based on this criteria is stupid.
Its soooo not. Biometrics are not good security , THEY NEVER WILL BE. FaceID is already dead, you are too blind to see it. I will never allow a computer to authenticate me by biometrics. Its a password you cant change...
The Star Trek computer is a voice command interface, not an 'assistant'. If you watch Star Trek closely, they use voice to narrow the search field and then almost always look at the drilled-down data on a screen. Further, The Star Trek computer doesn't attempt to 'be nice', or use colloquial phrases. When i tell Cortana to play a song, she gets cheeky and REPLIES instead of just playing the song. The Star Trek computer never attempts to be my friend or buddy up to me. We DO NOT WANT an assistant, we want voice command.
DMCA has no teeth on personal property and engineering. I can break encryption at home all i want, i just cant tell anyone about it. This is how they got GeoHot. It wasnt the hack on his own PS3, it was telling others that got him sued.
Copyright does not ban copying, it is far more concerned with distribution to others. For the most part you can copy anything you want at home, what you cant do is share the results (copyright violation) or methods (DMCA, see George Hotz v Sony) with others.
No they dont. The truth is Google looks at your uploads, and then serves you what it THINKS the file is. It does not playback your bits, it plays back what it thinks is your bits. I had a problem with a song that is part of a soundtrack. It has an intro with some clips from the film and then the song kicks off. Apparently there is another version of the song, and that is what google serves me, not the bits i gave them.
You get a thin client that you control...that is the difference. Updates should go through a LOCAL QA process before being deployed on your network. That is a professional job that you cant just hand-wave away to pretend to save money. You arent supposed to outsource everything. You dont outsource your local network, that is just insanely stupid. If you are deploying for 10,000 kids, you NEED an in-house IT staff that controls the machines end-to-end.
And thus we are back where we started before the PC. Mainframes that control everything and the user is dictated to. Good job google, you set us back to the mainframe era..
While true, we are at the shittiest level and should expect more. There should be some path to 'Trust, but Verify'. This is a basic epistemological issue, not a lost cause. I dont know first hand that the sun is a giant nuclear fire, i take it on faith that the scientists that study it are telling the truth because their research forms a testable and reproducible hypothesis. Its silly to pretend we shouldnt expect more. Is your vision of humanity "A boot stamping on a human face, forever."?
You know phones can store, analyze and transmit as battery and network connectivity allows, right? They dont have to store all the audio, just its datapoints.
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Your phone is much closer to a dumb terminal than a PC. Personal Computing was the rejection of the mainframe way, not the embracing of it, so no, i would not consider your phone a PC.
I have two main identities, my hotmail account that i have had since 1998 and my gmail account i have had since 2004. IM the same person and have the same risk regardless of which ID i give them...Judging risk based on this criteria is stupid.
>FaceID is the future
Its soooo not. Biometrics are not good security , THEY NEVER WILL BE. FaceID is already dead, you are too blind to see it. I will never allow a computer to authenticate me by biometrics. Its a password you cant change...
To be completely fair, the will of the people should almost always override government mandated qualifications.
MP3 is no longer patent encumbered. Fraunhofer IIS no longer accepts royalty/licensing payments for it.
I expect them to give me a choice to install this patch or not.
Thats why you use VPN when connecting to a strange AP.
The Star Trek computer is a voice command interface, not an 'assistant'. If you watch Star Trek closely, they use voice to narrow the search field and then almost always look at the drilled-down data on a screen. Further, The Star Trek computer doesn't attempt to 'be nice', or use colloquial phrases. When i tell Cortana to play a song, she gets cheeky and REPLIES instead of just playing the song. The Star Trek computer never attempts to be my friend or buddy up to me. We DO NOT WANT an assistant, we want voice command.
Apple's license famously has a 'cannot be used to design weapons' clause.
DMCA has no teeth on personal property and engineering. I can break encryption at home all i want, i just cant tell anyone about it. This is how they got GeoHot. It wasnt the hack on his own PS3, it was telling others that got him sued.
Is there a practical scaling differences between 60 million and a billion users? Could you please enumerate them?
Copyright does not ban copying, it is far more concerned with distribution to others. For the most part you can copy anything you want at home, what you cant do is share the results (copyright violation) or methods (DMCA, see George Hotz v Sony) with others.
"I guess what this means is if you want your phone to still last a solid day in a year or two, better not buy Motorola!"
With Turbo Charging, who cares? I can top up in minutes, not hours.
Its also a dumb terminal, the absolute antithesis of what the PC revolution was for. How quickly people forget.
I think you mean 'I guess you dont use SMS to text'
No they dont. The truth is Google looks at your uploads, and then serves you what it THINKS the file is. It does not playback your bits, it plays back what it thinks is your bits. I had a problem with a song that is part of a soundtrack. It has an intro with some clips from the film and then the song kicks off. Apparently there is another version of the song, and that is what google serves me, not the bits i gave them.
You do realize that pretty much every computer on the planet that isnt Windows is a UNIX variant, right?
If you are going to use have enough storage for FLAC why bother encoding at all, just store the raw .wavs off the disc.
You get a thin client that you control...that is the difference. Updates should go through a LOCAL QA process before being deployed on your network. That is a professional job that you cant just hand-wave away to pretend to save money. You arent supposed to outsource everything. You dont outsource your local network, that is just insanely stupid. If you are deploying for 10,000 kids, you NEED an in-house IT staff that controls the machines end-to-end.
And thus we are back where we started before the PC. Mainframes that control everything and the user is dictated to. Good job google, you set us back to the mainframe era..
Not just their recent launches. SpaceX has a jam-packed launch manifest for the next few years.
Valve cited this yesterday as the reason they are no longer accepting Bitcoins as a payment option.
"As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method on our platform due to high fees and volatility in the value of Bitcoin."
http://steamcommunity.com/game...
While true, we are at the shittiest level and should expect more. There should be some path to 'Trust, but Verify'. This is a basic epistemological issue, not a lost cause. I dont know first hand that the sun is a giant nuclear fire, i take it on faith that the scientists that study it are telling the truth because their research forms a testable and reproducible hypothesis. Its silly to pretend we shouldnt expect more. Is your vision of humanity "A boot stamping on a human face, forever."?
You dont know if they are being nefarious or not because you cant see the source. Assume they are being nefarious.
You know phones can store, analyze and transmit as battery and network connectivity allows, right? They dont have to store all the audio, just its datapoints.