most of the net works fine without javascript... yes, you lose ads... you lose some advanced sites... but you can use the net and reach most of the main content just fine.
Most of us are scientists, engineers, developers, administrators... all technical people, who usually don't care about design, but care about usability and speed (ie: we are all lazy, want as much information as possible, as fast as possible, with the little trouble as possible)
If you are trying to fish "normal" people, by cutting out classic, slashdot will stop being a technical site
The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.
why? slashdot have the same design since 1997 and i don't people complain... yes, the site changes, it is more dynamic, comments can be collapse, submit comments without reloading, etc but the classic design worked fine for 17 years
Want to change? fine, the classic must still be used and switched to in a easy way (i don't want to click in 3 places to change the view, every time i open slashdot on a new computer/use privacy mode/use a javascriptless browser)
The idea of the beta is to check if the design idea is on the right track, instead of investing months of work on features, just to find that no one likes it and trow it all away... as you can see, the test worked, as most people didn't like the change and several things need to be corrected before adding more features.
I use dillo (a very light browser, without javascript and very basic CSS) several times to a quick net browsing and i can read slashdot classic, but not beta... just because of javascript
Again, nvidia don't have the console market today, AMD have it, so if game developers will use MANTLE in the consoles, the PC market should follow. If the performance is as claimed, game developers will for sure try to use it, specially if its supported in all systems the same (all consoles, windows, mac, linux)
Don't forget that all new consoles today are using AMD cards, so the game developers are using mantle for those, they would also can do that to PC with little change
1- i don't imagine how the video card drivers can affect a browser, can't MS blacklist that driver? does everyone have this problem? 2- why use IE? 3- why even use windows!?
call it whatever you want... CISC AND RISC? can be also small-CISC AND small-CISC and small-CISC AND small-CISC... but that start to translate to a plain RISC
If you would take out that translation layer and use all available micro-ops, you would call that CPU a RISC like, not a CISC like... Even if sometime you can only execute one operation, other times you CAN execute several operations, being further way from a CISC design and close to a RISC design.
anyway, that layer takes out performance, consume resources and really not needed if you change architecture... so going away saved money
You are also forgetting that a x86 or a amd64 is a RISC cpu with a layer od CISC hidding the RISC. That layer takes cpu space, power and resources (both designing and working). Going to a simples CPU design saves silicon wafers, increasing the number of cpu per wafers and so increasing the profit. Also, a simpler cpu saved internal resources developing the cpu.
So AMD building ARM cpus is a way to reduce costs, increase potential profit per cpu and of course, being ready and testing the market demand for ARM CPUs
No, its a river in india... AMD uses river names for APU/CPUs families and GPUs are islands (where the type and location of the island is used as family grouping)
the divisibility of bitcoins is set on the current version of the protocol and can be increased any time with a update version. the protocol already had several updates, one of then a mandatory update to solve a large block fork issue
You can choose to save the wifi for the system (and so not saved in user kwallet) or for user (stored in the user kwallet)... so you can choose what fits tou best
to understand kwallet think that you store your credit card in it and you have your computer on a public place. The login is just the first way to protect you, even if someone can see your password, to use your CC, you still have to lose your kwallet password, that is only rarely used an so harder to be stolen. It's the samething for firefox master password, kiskis, keepass(x) or the apple keychain... another layer to protect your passwords.
If do not want to have 2 layers of security, just set a empty password for kwallet.
because you should have multiple levels of security... the password for login should be different from the kwallet... and you should even use several kwallets, one for websites, other for local access machines, vpn or more secured data (bank info and other logins).
a true wallet will auto-close after some minutes unused and require new auth to open (to prove that you are still the correct owner and not a random user trying to steal some data
it's the same for executing superuser commands... it asks a password as a security layer... you can also disable it if you want, but is very recommended to confirm that you are really allowed to do that
it's up to you, but look at windows and how the the "easy to use" and "do not ask anything, assume it's OK" have broken the security several times and helped hackers and virus to take over the systems.
Remember, there is no "one size fits all" security, but having as much security layers as possible help a little every time
Hitler alone could not do anything...he needed the people support. German people fall in to the nazi hate talk due to the instability of world crisis and specially by the huge and stupid "war compensation" from WW1. Crisis make people to want to believe on new solutions, specially if the current available ones don't really solve anything... just look at Greece economical crisis and how a both a fascist party and a alternative popular party gained popularity in last elections. Extended crisis and greed are the seeds for wars. Mutual help, support and sharing helps avoid wars. It's up to the people to decide what path they want to follow (what that could do to others).
There is always one side that think it is better, it is correct, it have some kind of right. Worst wars happen when both sides think that. Then there is all the lies, illusions and blindness that fuel some kind of hate that didn't existed in the past. Everyone have reasons to both LOVE and HATE the next guy, just press the right buttons to increase one over the other.
Use iptables rules in the router to allow/disallow traffic at some hours of day, see this. You can totally block the traffic, or QoS it to oblivion on hot hours and increase it traffic later (join the iptables rules by hours to set the classid and then apply different QoS to then)
Finally, a caching transparent proxy might help, specially if everyone uses the same sites... it helps the normal browsing (by caching images, css, js, etc) and the updates (local copy if already downloaded). You just need a old computer with some HD and you are done.
For harder to filter services, you can usually block DNS for then... but if you allow it for some time, it might be cached by the clients on peak hours and still work.
Of course, if you control the clients, you can also configure most of then to only download off hours
Finally, you can be a BOFH, permit only allowed traffic and block the rest... or redirect it to some backdoor installer and enjoy the chaos generated
I'm not saying that OpenBSD is useless, but that in the cover of security, have many limitation and performance issues that other OS don't have.
For the NIH, is always the same... everyone have one excuse for the NIH and build a new one instead of fixing the existent one... that is why there are so many NIH cases (not limit to OpenBSD, every team with intelligent people think they can always do better than the next guy/team... sometime they do it, sometimes they don't)
Finally, i'm not saying that OpenBSD don't do useful things, they do and others should use then too!! what i'm saying is that OpenBSD have people that understand security, yet they very rarely help other with their security problems. They only bash other developers and apps and point how superior OpenBSD is... but this don't help solve the problem. For many of then. the world outside OpenBSD simply doesn't exists.
Was he far from true? yes, openbsd is secure... but security objective makes many parts almost unusable...
Need something that already exists?! lets do it all over, because now it will be "secure" (not that the original was insecure, it was just NIH). Helping others fix the problems on their code? no, never! just use our unix and tools.
many BSD developers, specially Theo, just use the security flag as a way to show off how good they are, and how everyone else should thank then for the universe.
But forget Linus, imagine a flame war between Theo De Raadt and Daniel J. Bernstein about security!!! that would be FUN!!
Really, windows is just problems, not worthy the trouble.
I migrate my father computer to linux, using Kubuntu.
Before the migration, already changed the email to thunderbird and the office to openoffice (now libreoffice), saving as odt, but teaching to export documents as PDF when sending to others (and solve the.doc/.odt support by others). Média player also setup to VLC and browser firefox.
After more than half year using windows and open applications and solved any difficulty encountered, i finally replaced windows by linux.
In linux, the apps are the same they used in windows, so the migration was easy. I just configured quick-launch icons for the needed apps, associate file extensions to the correct apps (mostly videos to vlc), saved authentications in main sites and main bookmarks in bookmark bar and setup digikam to import the pictures from the camera.
they only had 3 problems: using floppies ( yes, it was some years ago:),they didn't umount then all the times... solved by using a sync option for floppies. Another problem was the.exe files... most of then are virus, so it IS a good thing they can't execute then. only once it was something useful, so i remotely setup the wine, so they could run the.exe and after that i disabled the wine ( i don't want then executing random things, even on wine). The final problem was the login page, i was ready to remove it, as they use only one account, but after some days they got used to it and i let it there.
My father uses today linux even better than what he could use windows. My mother only uses the browser on some sites (mostly banking) and have the same difficulties as in windows.
Right now the also have a tablet (BQ edison), that help the quick email check and browsing, making the PC less used. So migrate to linux if they really need a full PC, install every app they need and configure everything. If not already, replace in windows everything you don't have in linux, to ease the migration (changing less things at same time is always better) If they don't really need a PC, buy a tablet.
yes, Origin is a sad excuse of DRM system... looking at desura and steam, it's so easy to work with... with Origin, it's a never ending install saga of apps (all full of spyware, just check your firewall logs) and then to play, you have to open the browser and install even more plugins (again heavy and with all sort of tracking).
Those guys need to trash it all and learn that KISS is (and stop trying to spy/track their users)
Slashdot Mirror
that is where you are wrong!
most of the net works fine without javascript... yes, you lose ads... you lose some advanced sites... but you can use the net and reach most of the main content just fine.
Most of us are scientists, engineers, developers, administrators... all technical people, who usually don't care about design, but care about usability and speed (ie: we are all lazy, want as much information as possible, as fast as possible, with the little trouble as possible)
If you are trying to fish "normal" people, by cutting out classic, slashdot will stop being a technical site
The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.
why?
slashdot have the same design since 1997 and i don't people complain...
yes, the site changes, it is more dynamic, comments can be collapse, submit comments without reloading, etc but the classic design worked fine for 17 years
Want to change? fine, the classic must still be used and switched to in a easy way (i don't want to click in 3 places to change the view, every time i open slashdot on a new computer/use privacy mode/use a javascriptless browser)
show off ! :)
The idea of the beta is to check if the design idea is on the right track, instead of investing months of work on features, just to find that no one likes it and trow it all away... as you can see, the test worked, as most people didn't like the change and several things need to be corrected before adding more features.
I use dillo (a very light browser, without javascript and very basic CSS) several times to a quick net browsing and i can read slashdot classic, but not beta... just because of javascript
psst!! yes, you can resurrect classic, just don't tell anyone!!
Again, nvidia don't have the console market today, AMD have it, so if game developers will use MANTLE in the consoles, the PC market should follow.
If the performance is as claimed, game developers will for sure try to use it, specially if its supported in all systems the same (all consoles, windows, mac, linux)
Don't forget that all new consoles today are using AMD cards, so the game developers are using mantle for those, they would also can do that to PC with little change
1- i don't imagine how the video card drivers can affect a browser, can't MS blacklist that driver? does everyone have this problem?
2- why use IE?
3- why even use windows!?
call it whatever you want... CISC AND RISC? can be also small-CISC AND small-CISC and small-CISC AND small-CISC... but that start to translate to a plain RISC
If you would take out that translation layer and use all available micro-ops, you would call that CPU a RISC like, not a CISC like... Even if sometime you can only execute one operation, other times you CAN execute several operations, being further way from a CISC design and close to a RISC design.
anyway, that layer takes out performance, consume resources and really not needed if you change architecture... so going away saved money
You are also forgetting that a x86 or a amd64 is a RISC cpu with a layer od CISC hidding the RISC. That layer takes cpu space, power and resources (both designing and working). Going to a simples CPU design saves silicon wafers, increasing the number of cpu per wafers and so increasing the profit. Also, a simpler cpu saved internal resources developing the cpu.
So AMD building ARM cpus is a way to reduce costs, increase potential profit per cpu and of course, being ready and testing the market demand for ARM CPUs
No, its a river in india... AMD uses river names for APU/CPUs families and GPUs are islands (where the type and location of the island is used as family grouping)
and the graphic card is free for you?
the divisibility of bitcoins is set on the current version of the protocol and can be increased any time with a update version. the protocol already had several updates, one of then a mandatory update to solve a large block fork issue
You can choose to save the wifi for the system (and so not saved in user kwallet) or for user (stored in the user kwallet)... so you can choose what fits tou best
to understand kwallet think that you store your credit card in it and you have your computer on a public place. The login is just the first way to protect you, even if someone can see your password, to use your CC, you still have to lose your kwallet password, that is only rarely used an so harder to be stolen. It's the samething for firefox master password, kiskis, keepass(x) or the apple keychain... another layer to protect your passwords.
If do not want to have 2 layers of security, just set a empty password for kwallet.
because you should have multiple levels of security...
the password for login should be different from the kwallet... and you should even use several kwallets, one for websites, other for local access machines, vpn or more secured data (bank info and other logins).
a true wallet will auto-close after some minutes unused and require new auth to open (to prove that you are still the correct owner and not a random user trying to steal some data
it's the same for executing superuser commands... it asks a password as a security layer... you can also disable it if you want, but is very recommended to confirm that you are really allowed to do that
it's up to you, but look at windows and how the the "easy to use" and "do not ask anything, assume it's OK" have broken the security several times and helped hackers and virus to take over the systems.
Remember, there is no "one size fits all" security, but having as much security layers as possible help a little every time
Hitler alone could not do anything...he needed the people support.
German people fall in to the nazi hate talk due to the instability of world crisis and specially by the huge and stupid "war compensation" from WW1. Crisis make people to want to believe on new solutions, specially if the current available ones don't really solve anything... just look at Greece economical crisis and how a both a fascist party and a alternative popular party gained popularity in last elections. Extended crisis and greed are the seeds for wars. Mutual help, support and sharing helps avoid wars. It's up to the people to decide what path they want to follow (what that could do to others).
All Wars are STUPID
There! FIFY
There is always one side that think it is better, it is correct, it have some kind of right. Worst wars happen when both sides think that. Then there is all the lies, illusions and blindness that fuel some kind of hate that didn't existed in the past. Everyone have reasons to both LOVE and HATE the next guy, just press the right buttons to increase one over the other.
+10^32 :)
Use iptables rules in the router to allow/disallow traffic at some hours of day, see this. You can totally block the traffic, or QoS it to oblivion on hot hours and increase it traffic later (join the iptables rules by hours to set the classid and then apply different QoS to then)
Finally, a caching transparent proxy might help, specially if everyone uses the same sites... it helps the normal browsing (by caching images, css, js, etc) and the updates (local copy if already downloaded). You just need a old computer with some HD and you are done.
For harder to filter services, you can usually block DNS for then... but if you allow it for some time, it might be cached by the clients on peak hours and still work.
Of course, if you control the clients, you can also configure most of then to only download off hours
Finally, you can be a BOFH, permit only allowed traffic and block the rest... or redirect it to some backdoor installer and enjoy the chaos generated
I'm not saying that OpenBSD is useless, but that in the cover of security, have many limitation and performance issues that other OS don't have.
For the NIH, is always the same... everyone have one excuse for the NIH and build a new one instead of fixing the existent one... that is why there are so many NIH cases (not limit to OpenBSD, every team with intelligent people think they can always do better than the next guy/team... sometime they do it, sometimes they don't)
Finally, i'm not saying that OpenBSD don't do useful things, they do and others should use then too!! what i'm saying is that OpenBSD have people that understand security, yet they very rarely help other with their security problems. They only bash other developers and apps and point how superior OpenBSD is... but this don't help solve the problem. For many of then. the world outside OpenBSD simply doesn't exists.
Was he far from true? yes, openbsd is secure... but security objective makes many parts almost unusable...
Need something that already exists?! lets do it all over, because now it will be "secure" (not that the original was insecure, it was just NIH). Helping others fix the problems on their code? no, never! just use our unix and tools.
many BSD developers, specially Theo, just use the security flag as a way to show off how good they are, and how everyone else should thank then for the universe.
But forget Linus, imagine a flame war between Theo De Raadt and Daniel J. Bernstein about security!!! that would be FUN!!
Change to linux!!
Really, windows is just problems, not worthy the trouble.
I migrate my father computer to linux, using Kubuntu.
Before the migration, already changed the email to thunderbird and the office to openoffice (now libreoffice), saving as odt, but teaching to export documents as PDF when sending to others (and solve the .doc/.odt support by others). Média player also setup to VLC and browser firefox.
After more than half year using windows and open applications and solved any difficulty encountered, i finally replaced windows by linux.
In linux, the apps are the same they used in windows, so the migration was easy. I just configured quick-launch icons for the needed apps, associate file extensions to the correct apps (mostly videos to vlc), saved authentications in main sites and main bookmarks in bookmark bar and setup digikam to import the pictures from the camera.
they only had 3 problems: using floppies ( yes, it was some years ago :) ,they didn't umount then all the times... solved by using a sync option for floppies. .exe files ... most of then are virus, so it IS a good thing they can't execute then. only once it was something useful, so i remotely setup the wine, so they could run the .exe and after that i disabled the wine ( i don't want then executing random things, even on wine).
Another problem was the
The final problem was the login page, i was ready to remove it, as they use only one account, but after some days they got used to it and i let it there.
My father uses today linux even better than what he could use windows. My mother only uses the browser on some sites (mostly banking) and have the same difficulties as in windows.
Right now the also have a tablet (BQ edison), that help the quick email check and browsing, making the PC less used.
So migrate to linux if they really need a full PC, install every app they need and configure everything. If not already, replace in windows everything you don't have in linux, to ease the migration (changing less things at same time is always better)
If they don't really need a PC, buy a tablet.
yes, Origin is a sad excuse of DRM system... looking at desura and steam, it's so easy to work with... with Origin, it's a never ending install saga of apps (all full of spyware, just check your firewall logs) and then to play, you have to open the browser and install even more plugins (again heavy and with all sort of tracking).
Those guys need to trash it all and learn that KISS is (and stop trying to spy/track their users)