From the figures linked to by the original article, FF went from 11.68% in Jan 2015 to 12.22% in Dec. Hardly users "fleeing" - not what it was, but still comfortably twice anything but IE or Chrome.
But the average person would hire someone to do it, while these days the average person could probably set up a wifi network by themselves, or have the neighbors kid do it.
No the average person would ask "the guy next door who knows about computers" to "pop round and help sort out the network". In return for a cup of coffee.;-)
Not really. $600-$800 phone every 2 years plus the contract which can easily cost you $800-$1200 a year. You can afford to buy a cheap used car if you cancelled your phone for a few years.
Comparing a new premium phone with a cheap used car is like comparing apples with.... oh, wait!
If your number of women employed is 10%, and your number of women applying compared to men is 10%, what's the problem?
If a company isn't attractive to a significant group of potential job applicants, it may well be that sooner or later the same group will be less interested in buying it's products. It's just bad business.
As I understand Siri, the phone only activates the voice command function (and thus sends what the phone hears to Apple HQ) when the home button is long pressed (unless "hey Siri" or the older "raise to talk" IIRC is activated). If you want voice commands on a Smart TV, it seems they are eavesdropping all the time. Together with what seems to me to be a bit of a luke-warm statement on privacy of this data from Samsung, this seems to be qualitatively different, IMO.
Sure fella, or your fucking epileptic ass can TRY A DIFFERENT PRODUCT.
I think it's pretty obvious he meant an epileptic would be driving a car and get a seizure due to passing by a biker with this. Use your brain, asshole.
In most online discussion of cyclists vs car drivers the use of brain seems to be frowned upon.
...so I could properly thank him for the pleasure and enlightenment I've got from his books over the last 20 years, and try to express the sadness I feel at this news. Sad, sad, sad.
In 1989 there was an earlier Malware scare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(trojan_horse) claiming to come from "PC Cyborg Corporation" and demanding money. I worked for a company called Cyborg Systems that made payroll software for IBM Mainframes and the like. PC Plod turned up, wondering if we were branching out...
Slashdot eats degree symbols, even if encoded as HTML entities. Alas we cannot poke fun at people for that particular typographical wandering.
Neither the SI temperature unit (K) nor the most common (C) require a pesky degree symbol. As the internets is supposed to be worldwide and modern, perhaps chosing one of those units might have been more appropriate?
It seems our technology continues to expand in all directions and then collapse into a single device. TVs, PCs, and phones are becoming part of the same thing.
You missed out the next step. The lawyers & marketing bods get involved, realise they are losing money, and split the hardware and software up into discrete items again, that they can sell to you individually.
Rinse, and repeat.
Only if you make up the religion yourself. Otherwise the priest class do the governing, and are sometimes part of the government, or are manipulated by the ruling class.
Oh I agree - I was trying to say that all sensible forms of what we call democracy are compromises between "true" democracy and convenience. The trick is to get the balance right!
Didn't "the downfall of democracy" start when our ancestors decided it was better to elect people to decide things for us rather than doing it directly? Yes, I know that's not how it came about, but representative democracy *is* a concession to convenience over direct democracy.
That's not strictly true I'm afraid. In the UK the "marked register" (the paper audit of who voted) is marked with the ballot paper number against the voters name. So currently there is an audit trail from the individual to an individual ballot paper, and hence to their vote. It's not available to just anyone, but you can, under certain circumstances, find out how an individual voted, or more importantly how they were recorded as voting in case of fraud. Both individual ballot papers and marked register are retained after the election. I'm talking about something similar for electronic systems is all.
The problem with electronic systems is they are often floated as the sole solution to all electoral fraud (they're not) or as intrinsically weaker than paper based systems (and I'm arguing they are not that either).
Paper votes are subject to impersonation, for example, especially if voter turnout is low. During canvassing for the recent UK General Election for example, I became aware of people who were not voting due to absence (and hadn't secured a postal vote). It would have been simple to use those votes if I was so inclined.
The only solutions are transparent voting systems (if electronic, software and hardware must be publicly documented so that flaws are found and fixed - yes, I user Firefox!), plus independent audit trails (say, issue each voter with a receipt that can be checked against the voting record, if they agree).
The inconvenience of paper voting (many hundreds of people couldn't vote in the UK due to various issues related to this, and unexpected voter turnout) will push us towards electronic, probably internet voting whether we like it or not. The real question is not are these systems acceptably fraud resistant, but how to make them so.
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The obvious first application perhaps??
Quite possibly. But DDG is clearly not "based in Russia".
20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States. So no, unless you think Putin owns Trump, and by extension...
From the figures linked to by the original article, FF went from 11.68% in Jan 2015 to 12.22% in Dec. Hardly users "fleeing" - not what it was, but still comfortably twice anything but IE or Chrome.
Don't buy their products, purely for philosophical/philanthropic reasons.
Smugness come in to it too, or was that just why you felt the need to share this with the world?
But the average person would hire someone to do it, while these days the average person could probably set up a wifi network by themselves, or have the neighbors kid do it.
No the average person would ask "the guy next door who knows about computers" to "pop round and help sort out the network". In return for a cup of coffee. ;-)
Not really. $600-$800 phone every 2 years plus the contract which can easily cost you $800-$1200 a year. You can afford to buy a cheap used car if you cancelled your phone for a few years.
Comparing a new premium phone with a cheap used car is like comparing apples with.... oh, wait!
If your number of women employed is 10%, and your number of women applying compared to men is 10%, what's the problem?
If a company isn't attractive to a significant group of potential job applicants, it may well be that sooner or later the same group will be less interested in buying it's products. It's just bad business.
Just the cops, or all Americans?
Not so different...
As I understand Siri, the phone only activates the voice command function (and thus sends what the phone hears to Apple HQ) when the home button is long pressed (unless "hey Siri" or the older "raise to talk" IIRC is activated). If you want voice commands on a Smart TV, it seems they are eavesdropping all the time. Together with what seems to me to be a bit of a luke-warm statement on privacy of this data from Samsung, this seems to be qualitatively different, IMO.
Sure fella, or your fucking epileptic ass can TRY A DIFFERENT PRODUCT.
I think it's pretty obvious he meant an epileptic would be driving a car and get a seizure due to passing by a biker with this. Use your brain, asshole.
In most online discussion of cyclists vs car drivers the use of brain seems to be frowned upon.
How about the recent use of terrorism legislation against Iceland during the banking crisis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsbanki_Freezing_Order_2008
...so I could properly thank him for the pleasure and enlightenment I've got from his books over the last 20 years, and try to express the sadness I feel at this news. Sad, sad, sad.
In 1989 there was an earlier Malware scare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(trojan_horse) claiming to come from "PC Cyborg Corporation" and demanding money. I worked for a company called Cyborg Systems that made payroll software for IBM Mainframes and the like. PC Plod turned up, wondering if we were branching out...
I sit corrected on Celcius, which still requires the degree symbol. I'd love to be able to say I only use Kelvin, but....
Slashdot eats degree symbols, even if encoded as HTML entities. Alas we cannot poke fun at people for that particular typographical wandering.
Neither the SI temperature unit (K) nor the most common (C) require a pesky degree symbol. As the internets is supposed to be worldwide and modern, perhaps chosing one of those units might have been more appropriate?
It seems our technology continues to expand in all directions and then collapse into a single device. TVs, PCs, and phones are becoming part of the same thing.
You missed out the next step. The lawyers & marketing bods get involved, realise they are losing money, and split the hardware and software up into discrete items again, that they can sell to you individually. Rinse, and repeat.
Only if you make up the religion yourself. Otherwise the priest class do the governing, and are sometimes part of the government, or are manipulated by the ruling class.
...the only force strong enough to hold back the technological singularity!
Oh I agree - I was trying to say that all sensible forms of what we call democracy are compromises between "true" democracy and convenience. The trick is to get the balance right!
Didn't "the downfall of democracy" start when our ancestors decided it was better to elect people to decide things for us rather than doing it directly? Yes, I know that's not how it came about, but representative democracy *is* a concession to convenience over direct democracy.
I don't disagree, but I'm afraid the X Factor generation will demand a more user friendly way of voting, or they won't bother.
That's not strictly true I'm afraid. In the UK the "marked register" (the paper audit of who voted) is marked with the ballot paper number against the voters name. So currently there is an audit trail from the individual to an individual ballot paper, and hence to their vote. It's not available to just anyone, but you can, under certain circumstances, find out how an individual voted, or more importantly how they were recorded as voting in case of fraud. Both individual ballot papers and marked register are retained after the election. I'm talking about something similar for electronic systems is all.
The problem with electronic systems is they are often floated as the sole solution to all electoral fraud (they're not) or as intrinsically weaker than paper based systems (and I'm arguing they are not that either).
Paper votes are subject to impersonation, for example, especially if voter turnout is low. During canvassing for the recent UK General Election for example, I became aware of people who were not voting due to absence (and hadn't secured a postal vote). It would have been simple to use those votes if I was so inclined.
The only solutions are transparent voting systems (if electronic, software and hardware must be publicly documented so that flaws are found and fixed - yes, I user Firefox!), plus independent audit trails (say, issue each voter with a receipt that can be checked against the voting record, if they agree).
The inconvenience of paper voting (many hundreds of people couldn't vote in the UK due to various issues related to this, and unexpected voter turnout) will push us towards electronic, probably internet voting whether we like it or not. The real question is not are these systems acceptably fraud resistant, but how to make them so.
One card to rule them all, one card to find them, One card to bring them all and in the darkness bind them (With apologies to you know who)