Forcing idiot Windows to install updates automatically is the right way to go. It shouldn't be possible for people to disable them, including and especially in corporate environments. I use unattended-upgrades to automatically install security updates on all my machines. Android is a bit of a concern still, unfortunately. Not only do they give users a choice they make it a ridiculously complicated process due to their use of signed system images. This needs to go away, to make installing security updates as simple as it is on any desktop OS. Embedded IOT devices is a whole other can of worms, where security is woefully inadequate. Oh well. It's only my personal data, right? Not that important.
This clearly proves beyond any reasonable doubt that a Mac IS a PC. This has never been questioned by anyone who knows the slightest bit about computers, of course, but you still here this nonsense terminology thrown around. Now that they are both using the same commodity components, there really is no excuse.
You could pay for the same kind of theft insurance that the credit card companies have. The problem is that card companies transaction fees don't get passed onto the consumer. (At least in the U.S.) If they actually had to compete with cash, people might start to wake up to what is going on.
I just don't understand this. Do these companies get a cut of the transactions? Why are they all investing in this? How does having a bunch of competing standards benefit the mobile manufacturers? Because it sure as hell doesn't benefit consumers. This is an area just begging for a standard. And it would be easy to do! (I thought we already had one, but now it seems as if everything has changed.) Does LG's solution work without SafetyNet getting in the way trying to control what you do with your own device? Have any of these competing payment solutions done *anything* different to differentiate themselves? Because that's what competition is for, but it sounds as if they *all* work identically.
How could this be "abused?" I can think of no reason that anonymous calls should EVER be allowed in the first place. This is ridiculous. At the very least, people should be able to choose to block all anonymous calls. Obviously anyone with half a brain isn't going to make a threatening call over a traceable line anyone, so this only affects non-criminals. Again. Every. Single. Time.
Simply, no. They aren't idiots. This is clearly designed for the suburbs. The same can be said of rural locations where people might live 50 km from their nearest store. It's not as if they're trying to convert *all* deliveries to this service, merely supplement their existing system, which seems like an inventive idea. And it's only a trial, which is good. We'll see how it does.
*No one* is suggesting "infinite growth." The fact is we are nowhere close to "everyone who can afford an electric car already has one." Furthermore, in case you haven't heard, people actually do buy new cars. Consumer EVs have certainly been around long enough for people to be replacing them already, particularly those who have too much money to spend and/or an interest in the latest automotive technology.
Can someone explain *why* a 180% import tax ever existed in the first place? It's not like Denmark has a large domestic auto industry it needs to protect. And I assume the fee is only for cars imported from outside the EU (not Denmark), right? I can't imagine they'd be that interested in artificially propping up the Swedish and German auto industries. I just don't understand this.
Of course the electric vehicles should be subsidized in the form of reduced taxes, but completely eliminating them isn't the right answer either. Lower the duty to something like 20%, remove it for EVs, but still charge VAT for both.
Wouldn't the very first rule for any kind of platform like this, be that passwords are not decryptable without the user providing their key/password? I mean, that it's designed in such a way that this is a actually *impossible* without a brute-force breaking of the encryption? How could this ever happen? We need more technical details. Otherwise the level of incompetence would be downright astounding.
Is this including some kind of amd64 or x86 emulation? I can't imagine most Windows users will be too happy to find out they purchased a PC that's only capable of running software compiled for ARM! It would be a wonderful device to install Linux on, however, where we should have 100% compatibility. That is, of course, assuming we can reverse engineer Qualcomm's shitty proprietary drivers.
Your excuses are fucking pathetic. Learn to keep your legs together until you are in a situation to financially support some spawn. There is absolutely no excuse for not staying informed.
I'm sure the Catholic Church had a FAQ explaining that they don't condone molesting children at one point, too. That doesn't mean shit. You can't trust a Christian, EVER. Even if they are one of the few with genuinely good intentions, they are already too far gone and corrupted to be taken seriously. These people suffer from a rather debilitating mental disorder that allows them to completely disassociate from reality. That is not an acceptable trait when it comes to a news organization.
Why do documents with plain-text user credentials exist ANYWHERE, for ANY REASON in the first place? Is the government (or at least the NGA) really that completely incompetent? This is shocking! I don't care that it was leaked. We need to assume that is ALWAYS going to happen. I care that such documents were ever created in the first place.
That's a very good point I hadn't considered. If the majority of the people who actually have internet access are students, it actually makes a lot more sense. Not saying it's right, but it seems less wrong/damaging if the majority of people's lives aren't as dependent on internet access as they are in the developed world. Perhaps simply shutting down internet access at all the schools would have been enough, tough, if that's primarily where they access the internet.
I don't think people leaking an exam can be called "activists." This is a pretty pathetic way to try to combat this level of rampant cheating. It's really sad that such a state exists, and that they have failed to convey decent values to these students by grade 10/12. Then again, apparently cheating is also rampant in the US, where students have equally terrible values and little to no integrity.
Sounds like the real issue is that they are using the same exam all over the country. Couldn't this be fixed by simply randomizing the exam questions, changing the order (requiring people to hunt for answers even if they do manage to find a leaked copy), and changing the numeric values of questions to ensure the answers are different?
The internet is too critical a tool for society in general to shut it down even for just a day, for the sake of ensuring the validity of national student exams.
Online Travel Agencies need to die. These are the traditional companies (like Expedia) that can make bookings directly. Aggregators—sites which simply scrape hotel sites to collect their current rates—are great and we need more of them to continue innovating and delivering new and exciting solutions. These sites will just point you straight to the hotel's own website to book directly (without any kind of commission—no affiliate link or any other such nonsense). They can make their money through advertising like everyone else.
This is not true at all, in my experience. Particularly in the proprietary/Microsoft world. Unless you're in a large enough organization to have other people who actually know enough to check your work, people get away with this for many, many years. Of course they do learn as they're copying things from Stackoverflow, which of course isn't a bad thing, but they never seem to really "get" it. And small companies are never any wiser. As a contractor, I've had to clean up so many shitstorms that resulted from this exact situation.
As a programmer who studied physics and has never taken a computer science course, how do you handle exams? Do you actually expect people to hand-write code? Pseudocode? Or do you just let them use a computer and hope that they don't cheat?
I've never understood the concept of cheating on a course you are PAYING for. It just boggles my mind. No one is making you be there!
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Yet you still choose to support them and run their operating system, which you admit is an extremely poor product. Come on...
Forcing idiot Windows to install updates automatically is the right way to go. It shouldn't be possible for people to disable them, including and especially in corporate environments. I use unattended-upgrades to automatically install security updates on all my machines. Android is a bit of a concern still, unfortunately. Not only do they give users a choice they make it a ridiculously complicated process due to their use of signed system images. This needs to go away, to make installing security updates as simple as it is on any desktop OS. Embedded IOT devices is a whole other can of worms, where security is woefully inadequate. Oh well. It's only my personal data, right? Not that important.
Python just isn't rusty enough for my taste...
Actually, I've only played with Rust so far, but what I've experienced already really makes me want it to take off...
This clearly proves beyond any reasonable doubt that a Mac IS a PC. This has never been questioned by anyone who knows the slightest bit about computers, of course, but you still here this nonsense terminology thrown around. Now that they are both using the same commodity components, there really is no excuse.
BeauHD literally just posted this story this morning.
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For what it's worth, I also thought this.
You could pay for the same kind of theft insurance that the credit card companies have. The problem is that card companies transaction fees don't get passed onto the consumer. (At least in the U.S.) If they actually had to compete with cash, people might start to wake up to what is going on.
> checking account ledger
Um, what? Are you 90 years old? Who the hell does that? Seriously, go get Mint or any other budgeting software. That's a ridiculous argument.
I just don't understand this. Do these companies get a cut of the transactions? Why are they all investing in this? How does having a bunch of competing standards benefit the mobile manufacturers? Because it sure as hell doesn't benefit consumers. This is an area just begging for a standard. And it would be easy to do! (I thought we already had one, but now it seems as if everything has changed.) Does LG's solution work without SafetyNet getting in the way trying to control what you do with your own device? Have any of these competing payment solutions done *anything* different to differentiate themselves? Because that's what competition is for, but it sounds as if they *all* work identically.
How could this be "abused?" I can think of no reason that anonymous calls should EVER be allowed in the first place. This is ridiculous. At the very least, people should be able to choose to block all anonymous calls. Obviously anyone with half a brain isn't going to make a threatening call over a traceable line anyone, so this only affects non-criminals. Again. Every. Single. Time.
Simply, no. They aren't idiots. This is clearly designed for the suburbs. The same can be said of rural locations where people might live 50 km from their nearest store. It's not as if they're trying to convert *all* deliveries to this service, merely supplement their existing system, which seems like an inventive idea. And it's only a trial, which is good. We'll see how it does.
So wait, does this mean they don't have to pass a background check to work at the store in the first place? And what constitutes "passing?"
*No one* is suggesting "infinite growth." The fact is we are nowhere close to "everyone who can afford an electric car already has one." Furthermore, in case you haven't heard, people actually do buy new cars. Consumer EVs have certainly been around long enough for people to be replacing them already, particularly those who have too much money to spend and/or an interest in the latest automotive technology.
Can someone explain *why* a 180% import tax ever existed in the first place? It's not like Denmark has a large domestic auto industry it needs to protect. And I assume the fee is only for cars imported from outside the EU (not Denmark), right? I can't imagine they'd be that interested in artificially propping up the Swedish and German auto industries. I just don't understand this.
Of course the electric vehicles should be subsidized in the form of reduced taxes, but completely eliminating them isn't the right answer either. Lower the duty to something like 20%, remove it for EVs, but still charge VAT for both.
Wouldn't the very first rule for any kind of platform like this, be that passwords are not decryptable without the user providing their key/password? I mean, that it's designed in such a way that this is a actually *impossible* without a brute-force breaking of the encryption? How could this ever happen? We need more technical details. Otherwise the level of incompetence would be downright astounding.
Windows-only garbage most people install from a binary blob without compiling it themselves and has network access? No, thanks.
Is this including some kind of amd64 or x86 emulation? I can't imagine most Windows users will be too happy to find out they purchased a PC that's only capable of running software compiled for ARM! It would be a wonderful device to install Linux on, however, where we should have 100% compatibility. That is, of course, assuming we can reverse engineer Qualcomm's shitty proprietary drivers.
Your excuses are fucking pathetic. Learn to keep your legs together until you are in a situation to financially support some spawn. There is absolutely no excuse for not staying informed.
I'm sure the Catholic Church had a FAQ explaining that they don't condone molesting children at one point, too. That doesn't mean shit. You can't trust a Christian, EVER. Even if they are one of the few with genuinely good intentions, they are already too far gone and corrupted to be taken seriously. These people suffer from a rather debilitating mental disorder that allows them to completely disassociate from reality. That is not an acceptable trait when it comes to a news organization.
Why do documents with plain-text user credentials exist ANYWHERE, for ANY REASON in the first place? Is the government (or at least the NGA) really that completely incompetent? This is shocking! I don't care that it was leaked. We need to assume that is ALWAYS going to happen. I care that such documents were ever created in the first place.
That's a very good point I hadn't considered. If the majority of the people who actually have internet access are students, it actually makes a lot more sense. Not saying it's right, but it seems less wrong/damaging if the majority of people's lives aren't as dependent on internet access as they are in the developed world. Perhaps simply shutting down internet access at all the schools would have been enough, tough, if that's primarily where they access the internet.
I don't think people leaking an exam can be called "activists." This is a pretty pathetic way to try to combat this level of rampant cheating. It's really sad that such a state exists, and that they have failed to convey decent values to these students by grade 10/12. Then again, apparently cheating is also rampant in the US, where students have equally terrible values and little to no integrity.
Sounds like the real issue is that they are using the same exam all over the country. Couldn't this be fixed by simply randomizing the exam questions, changing the order (requiring people to hunt for answers even if they do manage to find a leaked copy), and changing the numeric values of questions to ensure the answers are different?
The internet is too critical a tool for society in general to shut it down even for just a day, for the sake of ensuring the validity of national student exams.
Online Travel Agencies need to die. These are the traditional companies (like Expedia) that can make bookings directly. Aggregators—sites which simply scrape hotel sites to collect their current rates—are great and we need more of them to continue innovating and delivering new and exciting solutions. These sites will just point you straight to the hotel's own website to book directly (without any kind of commission—no affiliate link or any other such nonsense). They can make their money through advertising like everyone else.
This is not true at all, in my experience. Particularly in the proprietary/Microsoft world. Unless you're in a large enough organization to have other people who actually know enough to check your work, people get away with this for many, many years. Of course they do learn as they're copying things from Stackoverflow, which of course isn't a bad thing, but they never seem to really "get" it. And small companies are never any wiser. As a contractor, I've had to clean up so many shitstorms that resulted from this exact situation.
As a programmer who studied physics and has never taken a computer science course, how do you handle exams? Do you actually expect people to hand-write code? Pseudocode? Or do you just let them use a computer and hope that they don't cheat?
I've never understood the concept of cheating on a course you are PAYING for. It just boggles my mind. No one is making you be there!