Good question. I didn't even realise it was Lenovo that bought Motorola Mobility from Google. I'm confused how this announcement means in light of this statement from Wikipedia: "In November 2016, it was announced that Lenovo would stop releasing smartphones under its own name and the Vibe brand, and that all future smartphones would only carry the "Moto" brand and the Motorola logo."
This is great news. Now, if only they put all of the money they were originally spending on their proprietary platform into contributing to AOSP, and make sure that their phones can NEVER be OEM locked in any way, they will get my business.
Cookies... and localStorage, and indexedDB / web SQL, and web workers, and application cache... Otherwise, yes, I completely agree. It's just not quite that simple.
Unfortunately the trend is going in the opposite direction, even on Linux, with Snaps and Flatpack apps being distributed with their own complete runtime, unique versions of all required libraries, etc.;It's disturbing.
When the vast majority of your users are non-technical people, you don't have to worry about things like file sizes. You just tell people to get a newer/bigger/faster phone, and they do it, because, you know...keeping up with the Joneses or something. Pretty pathetic.;
This is why we need to get away from native apps as much as possible. They do have their place, but that place is a very narrow niche and getting smaller every day. Regular apps like Facebook and LinkedIn are literally just interfaces to these websites. Mobile web APIs are sufficient for pretty much everything these apps do. There is just no excuse for these massive mobile apps.
I highly encourage the use of mobile websites (or wrappers for them to bridge the gap), and "light" versions of apps like Facebook and Messenger Lite. (Download size: 1.53M) Apps like these just prove that it *can* be done right. We just need to get the plebs to demand it.
The real work of protecting *other* worlds from US is extremely important as we continue to move closer and closer toward getting to Mars. I'm very glad to see (and not at all surprised) to see NASA continuing to pursue this.
I thought Slashdot was supposed to be above clickbait.../s
Wow. I'm a Fi user myself, and have to say this is an idiotic comment. Fi is *terrible* for high-data users! It's really only good if you, like me, use less than 1-2GB/month.
We need a global mandate that *all* medical equipment has 100% open-source firmware. Only then can we have any real hope of security with these critical, life-saving devices.
Obviously asking users to understand what signal strength in dB means is not an option. They could have a slider or something, though. "poor-low-med-high' etc. In the meantime, you can enable "Aggressive Wi-Fi to Mobile handover" in developer options.
I believe Android has had this feature since at least the 4.0 days. It definitely seems like a must. Apple is too focused on shiny toys to attract their baby-like fans instead of actual technical solutions people need. Oh well, glad they've finally gotten it.
This is the great thing about Software Freedom and why it is so important. They can put whatever ads they want into it. If the company is the sole contributor, they can completely change the license to fully proprietary any time they want. And we have the freedom to say, no, we don't like what you've done, revert those changes, and distribute our own modifications.
I don't see this as a problem at all, but rather a good learning opportunity for people. Just because open source doesn't mean you should blindly trust it. You actually have to *look* at that source and make sure it's something you want to put onto your machine. Especially if you are downloading a binary from some random source, you're taking a huge risk. You have no more expectation of privacy just because software is open source, it's just that detecting issues is trivial compared with proprietary software.
We need laws like this in place, to eliminate people's false sense of security. These laws are never going to prevent people from using encryption on their own. The fact is, they shouldn't be trusting Apple or Facebook with their proprietary devices and software to encrypt their data. They should consider it 100% vulnerable at all times when relying on closed-source software. So why allow them to market that false hope to their users? This will result in better, more secure communication software. (At least on devices which aren't locked down like Apple's.)
lol, what? "16 series?" There are two releases every year, and it's been that way since the beginning. It's not a "series". They aren't connected. If anything, it was the *second* release in the 16.04 LTS series if you consider 18.04 to be the start of a new LTS series. Still not remotely newsworthy.
Yes, every incremental Ubuntu release only gets 6 months of extended support. It's been this way for many years. This is not a news story. Shame on you for reporting it, BeauHD. What has happened to the editorial standards on Slashdot?
Isn't it just generally accepted that these "original" reference prices are just MSRPs and to be ignored entirely? I mean, yeah, the practise is dishonest and should be abandoned, but it is no different from what every other business has done since...forever.
Okay I need to take this back. The Company, Navya, is not disgusting at all. They refer to their ARMA devices as "fully autonomous shuttle vehicles." It's Brady Dale and The Observer that are killing the English language. Fuck you, Brady.
This delusion of language really bothers me. These aren't trolleys, they are simply buses. We've had self-driving trains and trams for ages, that's not such a big deal. They can only go where the tracks take them. The automaton consists of starting, stopping, and presumably automatically detecting obstacles. Not particularly exciting. This disgusting company is just trying to confuse the language to generate buzz for their products.
No, iOS is more like Windows in this case, and Android is like Linux (literally). Apple is all about controlling end-users, just like Microsoft. Forcing their proprietary ecosystem down their throats. While Android shares a little bit of that due to Google, it's not inherent to the open-source operating system, and it's possible to have a well functioning phone without any of that Google stuff.
These are listed at $130 from Motorola, and even the old 2nd generation models are still $70 on Amazon. Perhaps you're referring to some kind of subsidy you got from your mobile carrier? It's really disingenuous to make that comparison. I can go get an iPhone for $0 from Sprint. So what? It's still a $650 phone.
And to think, I used to actually somewhat respect the guy. This just proves he doesn't know what he's talking about, and/or only cares about increasing his stock performance. SAD.
Seriously, though, there's nothing remotely innovative in the Apple product line. He's fooling himself, and his love of centralised control and consumer lock-down is especially disturbing. Chinese companies realized that they had a major trust problem, and I think they're finally starting to address that and are comping out with some really impressive products. I hope they get to the point where they can simply refuse to manufacture phones for all the western brands because they are making as much or more money on their own products.
It seems as if you're confused about where people think the danger lies. It's not that they think going around with cash will somehow make them *more* likely to be mugged. Not at all. The "danger" is in the amount of money that can be stolen when (if) this does ever happen. It's not as if people never get mugged, but thankfully it is fairly rare. That doesn't matter or weigh into this at all. The question you need to ask is, "what is the danger (risk) of losing your money when X happens." If X is getting mugged or losing your purse/wallet, then the answer is 100% when you are carrying cash, and 0% when you're not. Yet in either case, you still have access to the same amount of money. This is a pretty simple rationalisation.
So basically, it's just like loss/theft insurance, and the (small) amount of cash you actually keep in your wallet is your deductible.
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TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have been deprecated for a long time now. Disabling them is a completely different thing.
> "If you are running Debian Unstable on server"
Um, what? Honestly, if you're doing that, you *deserve* to have a hard time.
Good question. I didn't even realise it was Lenovo that bought Motorola Mobility from Google. I'm confused how this announcement means in light of this statement from Wikipedia: "In November 2016, it was announced that Lenovo would stop releasing smartphones under its own name and the Vibe brand, and that all future smartphones would only carry the "Moto" brand and the Motorola logo."
This is great news. Now, if only they put all of the money they were originally spending on their proprietary platform into contributing to AOSP, and make sure that their phones can NEVER be OEM locked in any way, they will get my business.
Cookies... and localStorage, and indexedDB / web SQL, and web workers, and application cache...
Otherwise, yes, I completely agree. It's just not quite that simple.
Unfortunately the trend is going in the opposite direction, even on Linux, with Snaps and Flatpack apps being distributed with their own complete runtime, unique versions of all required libraries, etc. ;It's disturbing.
When the vast majority of your users are non-technical people, you don't have to worry about things like file sizes. You just tell people to get a newer/bigger/faster phone, and they do it, because, you know...keeping up with the Joneses or something. Pretty pathetic.;
This is why we need to get away from native apps as much as possible. They do have their place, but that place is a very narrow niche and getting smaller every day. Regular apps like Facebook and LinkedIn are literally just interfaces to these websites. Mobile web APIs are sufficient for pretty much everything these apps do. There is just no excuse for these massive mobile apps.
I highly encourage the use of mobile websites (or wrappers for them to bridge the gap), and "light" versions of apps like Facebook and Messenger Lite. (Download size: 1.53M) Apps like these just prove that it *can* be done right. We just need to get the plebs to demand it.
The real work of protecting *other* worlds from US is extremely important as we continue to move closer and closer toward getting to Mars. I'm very glad to see (and not at all surprised) to see NASA continuing to pursue this.
I thought Slashdot was supposed to be above clickbait... /s
Vic Gundotra is a fucking cunt and I seriously hope he gets murdered for being the worthless pile of shit that he is.
Holy shit they are expensive! $99-249/month? Why would anyone ever go for that for their home internet service? That's crazy.
Wow. I'm a Fi user myself, and have to say this is an idiotic comment. Fi is *terrible* for high-data users! It's really only good if you, like me, use less than 1-2GB/month.
We need a global mandate that *all* medical equipment has 100% open-source firmware. Only then can we have any real hope of security with these critical, life-saving devices.
Obviously asking users to understand what signal strength in dB means is not an option. They could have a slider or something, though. "poor-low-med-high' etc. In the meantime, you can enable "Aggressive Wi-Fi to Mobile handover" in developer options.
I believe Android has had this feature since at least the 4.0 days. It definitely seems like a must. Apple is too focused on shiny toys to attract their baby-like fans instead of actual technical solutions people need. Oh well, glad they've finally gotten it.
This is the great thing about Software Freedom and why it is so important. They can put whatever ads they want into it. If the company is the sole contributor, they can completely change the license to fully proprietary any time they want. And we have the freedom to say, no, we don't like what you've done, revert those changes, and distribute our own modifications.
I don't see this as a problem at all, but rather a good learning opportunity for people. Just because open source doesn't mean you should blindly trust it. You actually have to *look* at that source and make sure it's something you want to put onto your machine. Especially if you are downloading a binary from some random source, you're taking a huge risk. You have no more expectation of privacy just because software is open source, it's just that detecting issues is trivial compared with proprietary software.
How hard is it to scan the current stories to make sure you don't a post a duplicate? Seriously, this was posted less than 12 hours earlier! COME ON!
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
This is two shitty posts from you in one day. You're on a roll.
We need laws like this in place, to eliminate people's false sense of security. These laws are never going to prevent people from using encryption on their own. The fact is, they shouldn't be trusting Apple or Facebook with their proprietary devices and software to encrypt their data. They should consider it 100% vulnerable at all times when relying on closed-source software. So why allow them to market that false hope to their users? This will result in better, more secure communication software. (At least on devices which aren't locked down like Apple's.)
lol, what? "16 series?" There are two releases every year, and it's been that way since the beginning. It's not a "series". They aren't connected. If anything, it was the *second* release in the 16.04 LTS series if you consider 18.04 to be the start of a new LTS series. Still not remotely newsworthy.
Yes, every incremental Ubuntu release only gets 6 months of extended support. It's been this way for many years. This is not a news story. Shame on you for reporting it, BeauHD. What has happened to the editorial standards on Slashdot?
Isn't it just generally accepted that these "original" reference prices are just MSRPs and to be ignored entirely? I mean, yeah, the practise is dishonest and should be abandoned, but it is no different from what every other business has done since...forever.
Okay I need to take this back. The Company, Navya, is not disgusting at all. They refer to their ARMA devices as "fully autonomous shuttle vehicles." It's Brady Dale and The Observer that are killing the English language. Fuck you, Brady.
This delusion of language really bothers me. These aren't trolleys, they are simply buses. We've had self-driving trains and trams for ages, that's not such a big deal. They can only go where the tracks take them. The automaton consists of starting, stopping, and presumably automatically detecting obstacles. Not particularly exciting. This disgusting company is just trying to confuse the language to generate buzz for their products.
No, iOS is more like Windows in this case, and Android is like Linux (literally). Apple is all about controlling end-users, just like Microsoft. Forcing their proprietary ecosystem down their throats. While Android shares a little bit of that due to Google, it's not inherent to the open-source operating system, and it's possible to have a well functioning phone without any of that Google stuff.
Apple became the "new Microsoft" a long time ago.
These are listed at $130 from Motorola, and even the old 2nd generation models are still $70 on Amazon. Perhaps you're referring to some kind of subsidy you got from your mobile carrier? It's really disingenuous to make that comparison. I can go get an iPhone for $0 from Sprint. So what? It's still a $650 phone.
And to think, I used to actually somewhat respect the guy. This just proves he doesn't know what he's talking about, and/or only cares about increasing his stock performance. SAD.
Seriously, though, there's nothing remotely innovative in the Apple product line. He's fooling himself, and his love of centralised control and consumer lock-down is especially disturbing. Chinese companies realized that they had a major trust problem, and I think they're finally starting to address that and are comping out with some really impressive products. I hope they get to the point where they can simply refuse to manufacture phones for all the western brands because they are making as much or more money on their own products.
It seems as if you're confused about where people think the danger lies. It's not that they think going around with cash will somehow make them *more* likely to be mugged. Not at all. The "danger" is in the amount of money that can be stolen when (if) this does ever happen. It's not as if people never get mugged, but thankfully it is fairly rare. That doesn't matter or weigh into this at all. The question you need to ask is, "what is the danger (risk) of losing your money when X happens." If X is getting mugged or losing your purse/wallet, then the answer is 100% when you are carrying cash, and 0% when you're not. Yet in either case, you still have access to the same amount of money. This is a pretty simple rationalisation.
So basically, it's just like loss/theft insurance, and the (small) amount of cash you actually keep in your wallet is your deductible.