Agreed. Let's try this, but without the buzzwords:
Carmakers and their tier 1 parts suppliers at CES in January are expected to launch an...centered around...over-the-air updates. The number of in-vehicle processors continues to grow, and consumers have come to expect their car to mimic smartphone functionality. As hardware becomes more of a...increasingly cars will be... There will be about 464 automotive electronics exhibitors at this year's CES — a record number, according to IHS Automotive...will be a...at the show —...and..., in the form of....and heads up displays, are expected to be among the most......speech recognition technology that uses... to identify speech patterns more quickly will also be more commonplace. One development the analysts said they're "crossing their fingers" to see at the show is..., which allow carmakers to offer the latest electronic systems prior to a model launch. Today, car models are often launched with years-old electronics.... and... are also... the native infotainment system makers' business. Analysts believe all carmakers will eventually offer both... in future car models.
It is quite common for people to complain, that their computer has "become slow" — they don't realize, that the machine is just as fast as when they bought it, but the software (including open-source) has become more demanding.
tl;dr: Moore's law: Hardware speed doubles every 18 months. Gates's law: Software speed halves every 18 months.
There isn't any situation I can think of where speeding up will end up saving lives
Getting out of the way. In most cases, a car can accelerate out of the way of a car faster than its brakes can overcome intertia. Even if it can't, I'd much rather an accident where I get T-boned in the trunk than in one of the doors.
nor is that why cars can go faster than posted speed limits
Well, a car that maxed out at 55mph would be laughable in other states where 65 and 75 are common. trying to decide upon a national speed limit would be ridiculous, as it doesn't account for population density or geography/topography. Sure, this argues well for having cars max out at 90, rather than 120 or 140 (higher in some of the high end / exotic models), but a car that maxed out at 75 would be more desirable than one that maxes out at 55, and then we end up with interstate commerce hell...
nor does anybody teach swerving into the left hand (on-coming) lane to avoid an accident.
This particular lesson was covered as follows: "do whatever the hell it takes to avoid an accident". If that includes swerving into the left lane? so be it. Here's a for-instance: residential area, two lane road, a driver isn't looking too closely while backing out of the driveway. Do you retain your lane, or swerve into the left lane to avoid hitting his car in the rear wheel well area? Same for hitting a deer, fallen tree, road construction, idiot texting instead of looking at the road, a situation where the lights aren't synchronized and thus the left side is clear and the person in front of you stopped short...
That's just beyond brain dead
No, assuming that we're only talking about driving in a straight line on a highway, as if it is the only possible scenario where driving skills come into play, is beyond brain dead.
"let me trade this rear end collision with a head on collision, all day long!".
I am certain that the GP wasn't referring to crossing the divider when there was oncoming traffic. To more fully phrase it with the included context, his/her statement was this: "At present, Google cars treat the divider line as sacrosanct, and will not cross it under any circumstances. However, there are edge cases when driving where the best way of avoiding an an accident is to cross the line. Humans know that avoiding an accident is more important than staying in the lane; most humans would look at another human sideways if an accident took place because the driver adhered to lane markers rather than self preservation. This is expected of humans, but not of Google cars."
1.) Run the Plex server on another machine, and use a drive mapping to give the Plex server access to your media library. This is what I do, but for other reasons. 2.) FreeNAS. Plex, OwnCloud, and CrashPlan are all two-click-install plug-ins. TT-RSS is fairly simple to install in a jail and there are a handful of cut-and-paste tutorials for doing so. A friend of mine who's Unix savvy has successfully gotten Piwigo to work in a FreeNAS jail (IMO better than Coppermine), though getting the complete stack to work in a FreeNAS is a bit limiting, but that obviously depends on what points on the list are truly necessary for your needs. 3.) Netgear's NAS units are surprisingly good. I got a 4-bay unit for a friend of mine for about $200 on Newegg. It supports a mix-and-match number of drives, has a mobile app, runs Plex, and its throughput numbers were solid. It may well be worth a look.
DBA's are known for being rational and objective when discussing competing RDBMSs, I'm looking forward to this discussion. Maybe next we could discuss which is better Islam, Christianity, or atheism.
The answer is obvious:
Emacs
You misspelled "systemd". "Relational Database" is slated to become one of its new features for next year's release.
Looks great, but the free version only supports 1 account... That's good enough for a random person, but your average IT power user has at least three email accounts to handle...
The free version supports two accounts...and your average IT power user would end up paying twice as much for Outlook, and about the same price for the Thunderbird add-ons that support Exchange.
1. Copy legislator's license plates. 2. Place phony plates on cars near streets known to have a prostitution problem. 3. Hilarity ensues as Los Angeles legislators get prostitution warning letters.
Foreseen problems: 1. Legislator's license plates are whitelisted. 2. Their mail gets screened, so only some lowly mailroom attendant sees the mail. 3. Their spouse already knows they sleep around, so even a false positive would be filed along with the preapproved Discover card mailers.
Admittedly Windows-only, but I've personally become a *huge* fan of eM Client. Super fast, incredibly stable, works flawlessly with both IMAP and Exchange, nice interface, fast searches, simple data imports, extremely small system footprint (even smaller than Thunderbird), and if the free version doesn't cut it, $50 is a very reasonable asking price for the commercial/supported version.
Now, where Thunderbird still wins out is cross-platform compatibility, NNTP support, and its open source, so I'm not saying that it's a drop-in replacement for Thunderbird. I will say, however, that it's a near drop-in replacement for Outlook.
And no, I'm not affiliated with them, but I didn't think anything would save me from my Outlook addiction.
Well, let's see. They used to have simple version numbers (Photoshop 5, Premiere 6.1, etc.). This got them into a bit of trouble because, for example, the upgrade from Premiere 6.1 to Premiere 6.5 was a paid upgrade, but since it wasn't a major change in the actual back end code, that was a bit messy. Additionally, Adobe wanted to focus more on the program bundles rather than the individual applications, and thus the "Creative Suite" moniker was born. Incidentally, this also helped deal with the psychological "high version numbers" issue (anyone want WinZip version 20?). Now, Adobe is betting the farm on everyone being okay with renting their software. Resultantly, they're trumpeting "All teh Updates!!!111", which they're hoping will make version numbers irrelevant - it's just "the most recent build we've rolled out the door". This ends up being a bit of a challenge because they also like doing Apple style keynotes, where they show all the CC subscribers how it's now possible to start editing videos on one's iPad and then continue on the editing bay. So, they thus distinguish the new feature sets that get introduced at the keynotes by the year of release of those features. Finally, Adobe's core applications aren't going anywhere - Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects - none of them are going anywhere. In trying to make Adobe products more accessible to folks who don't have formal training in graphic/media design, things like Muse come into play...and since they're new products that don't have the long history, it makes sense to pick a name and branding that aligns with current trends. I'm sure that given the option, Adobe would rather have a list of edge case applications like Muse than to end up becoming known as a company like Oracle that continues to exist because support contracts. Adobe's also starting to see a handful of up-and-coming applications start to gain a certain amount of popularity. I don't care how much people like seeing the Photoshop splash screen, when Affinity Photo has 95% of the sophisticated functions of Photoshop, a similar UI, reads PSDs, and costs $50 one time, Adobe is going to take notice.
Besides, software naming has seldom followed a true convention.
You're making the mistake of thinking like a slashdotter,where you're absolutely right in your assessment. Allow me to paint a better picture of the average person whose data is actually involved.
1.) Registration with fake information? That's "sensible skepticism", a holdover from the earlier days of the internet. In the 90's, 1234 fake street, 123 maple street, and 12345 main street were quite crowded buildings. Since vanity and exhibitionism has become the norm on the internet, it's quite common to actually write out "Kyle Castillo, 672 Spruce Place, Schenectady, NY 18421". No one questions a request for an address anymore. 2.) E-mail addresses have become a bit more of an identity than they used to be. Google 'voyager529', and you'll see a whole lot of information about me...and 'voyager' isn't even really my name. Moreover, since "voyager529@aol.com" was deemed an 'unprofessional' e-mail address to have, 'Kyle.Castillo@gmail.com' became much more common. Thus, having an e-mail address that's actually tied to you is more identifiable now than it was in the past. 3.) You and I know that 'a picture of your kid' isn't all that much, but to those who are of the persuasion that the "zoom and enhance" magic on CSI is actually realistic, it's a hop, skip, and a jump to "they can remove clothes, and change positions, and...". Anyone who has actually used Photoshop knows that this is bollocks, but again, we're dealing with parents who buy toys for their children that include video chat and don't read the privacy policy where those things are stored. 4.) A child's chat log may not be noteworthy in itself, but remember that it's pretty simple to trick a child into something. If a particular child is targeted, and a person has enough information deemed important by the child to convince that child to follow them, it's possible to make a rather ugly mess because the child isn't likely to figure out that everything that is known by the stranger are things from the chat logs.
Why am *I* worked up? Because this seems like, possibly, the one hack where people might actually wake up and pay a bit of attention. For once, "Think of the children" works in our favor. For once, the levels of fear that *should* have been present elsewhere are worth considering. Under false pretenses and as a result of a generation who gets their computer jargon from primetime TV? Yeah, I'll admit that...but it's not like the majority of people beyond Slashdot have cared otherwise.
In addition to the already described points of "Black Friday" turning into "Black Week", and Amazon apps dinging us when there's a new deal we can swipe-left or swipe-right, the stores painted themselves into a bit of a corner - "up to 80% off!"...that thing that no one wants, ever. The things that are actually wanted are only 5% off. The $200 laptops...each store only gets three of them, so if you're dediated enough to be one of the first three in line, you might be lucky enough to get one, but stores stopped shipping reasonable quantities of doorbuster deals, so anyone who got up early and didn't get what they came for started saying "screw this" after the first few rounds of disappointment, finally coming to the realization that spending $20 more and having it shipped to them from Amazon was an infinitely better gamble than spending four hours freezing outside.
Black Friday used to be the day where it was possible to get actually good deals, but it got distilled until there was nothing left.
he took an off-the-shelf alarm clock, and made it look like a bomb. He did this very deliberately.
Reasonable doubt regarding motivations aside, there were a number of issues with the device being a bomb. Yes, it looked like a bomb if the only bomb you've ever seen has been from a Tom Cruise / Bruce Willis / Liam Neeson movie...but that that point, you're not qualified to determine what is and isn't a bomb. There was nothing even resembling an explosive charge in the case, and even Achmed the Dead Terrorist knows that you don't build a bomb that is required to be plugged into an electrical outlet in order to work, as you'd be rather defeated by way of unplugging the bomb.
Should the school have ignored, what could have been a bomb, because the kid was a Muslim?
No. You follow actual procedure, like "evacuating the building" and "calling a bomb diffusion team", and you treat it like it's actually got an explosive charge, none of which was done. Sure, hold the kid in the principles office (or some approximation thereof as a result of the evacuation procedure), and when the bomb squad tells you that it's absolutely not a bomb, you hand the device back to the student and say, "even though it's not a bomb, I don't want to see this in school again". THAT is how you deal with this situation - treat the device like a bomb, and then when you find out that it isn't a bomb, you treat the student like he's not in possession of a bomb. Not that hard.
What sort of litigation would there have been if it was a bomb, and the school did nothing?
Oh plenty...but the reason why they'd be lawsuited to hell and back in that case would be because they didn't follow the procedures they were supposed to follow when dealing with a bomb scare.
Now, all of that being said, even RIAA/MPAA math would have trouble coming up with $15 million in damages from the situation. A mess was made by all parties involved, these things happen, apologies were made, and I wouldn't be patently against filing a four figure lawsuit + court fees, just on principle. Lawsuits like this though are why we can't have nice things.
Counterargument: Macbooks aren't always $1,500. They sell units now with 128gb of storage, which fits very little - a handful of phone backups or iPhoto storage will eat that alive. 256 and 512 are obviously preferable, but one must know how much storage they will need at time of purchase, since it's not possible to upgrade later..and units with that amount of internal storage are a lot more expensive - the 1TB upgrade for a MacBook Pro is an $800 add-on. With the USB port count as low as it can go, external storage isn't much fun. You can buy a Synology or similar NAS, but that is necessitated by the storage situation on the machine. "Put it all in iCloud" is the go-to battle cry, but that cost would need to get factored in, and using iCloud at the exclusion of any other storage method means that you're at Apple's mercy to keep your data safe. Yes, a $1,500 Macbook that holds up for five years is a better deal than a $500 Dell unit every two years...but over ten years, two $1,500 Macbooks + storage solution + de facto mandatory USB adapters + Applecare over ten years is, depending on exactly which combination of things you get, still notably more expensive than five new $500 Dell units over the same period.
We need an excuse to outlaw encryption again? (Score:1) by Opportunist (166417)
I bet my rear end that no later than tomorrow we'll get to hear about how we have to outlaw telling people how to use encryption and how to avoid being tracked on the internet.
I am confident that we can rely on Cameron to not disappoint us.
Comcast sells video service. T-Mobile does not. Comcast gets money if you subscribe to Xfinity. T-Mobile does not get money if you subscribe to Netflix. Thus, Comcast has a conflict of interest. T-Mobile does not.
Moreover, at least based on what it said right now, T-Mobile has solely technical requirements to meet in order to be part of BingeOn - whether you're Netflix or Comcast or Verizon Video* or Pornhub, if you meet their technological criteria, you're in**. Thus, in its present state, this isn't truly subject to the hypothetical scenario you're painting.
*No, Verizon Video doesn't exist in this respect. What I'm getting at is that T-Mobile's current rule set allow for a direct competitor to enter into this model, which is why it's not a conflict of interest like the Comcast example.
**One could argue that the "technological criteria" requirement could be stretched to "interstate commerce clause" levels, e.g. "videos must be in 720p.mp4 video, and not originate from servers with 'comcast.net', 'verizon.net', or 'att.net' in their DNS resolution traffic", but thus far, there's no evidence that T-Mobile intends to do this.
First off, pretend you're the average person going to Best Buy with $500 to spend on a new TV (approximately the median for a ~40" LED set). You're not super technical, but you know that you watch TV from your cable company, DVDs on occasion, and Netflix. You don't presently have a Roku or other set top box for streaming (that side of things is done on your tablet at the moment), so you have to factor that into your purchase.
You get to Best Buy, and there are a dozen TVs in your price range to choose from. You need to weed them out somehow. Start with the size - units that are too large to fit in the entertainment center are out, but if you're wall mounting, kill off the smallest ones available; no need to get a 40" when you can get 50" for the same price. That leaves you with half a dozen possibilities. Rule out the Insignia ones, because Best Buy's store brand doesn't instill confidence. You've got an LG unit, a Samsung unit, and a Sony unit left, all 46". Now, you need a differentiating factor to ultimately choose which you prefer. Now, one may well search the internet for reviews to see if there are any obvious standouts in either direction, but let's assume that that's not practical for whatever reason. If you get a TV with Netflix integrated, you save $70 by not buying a Roku, and another $70 by not buying an HDMI cable, and you won't need a separate Roku remote. On top of that, the integrated camera and microphone would make it really nice to be able to Skype with out of state family - not a purchase consideration initially, but it'd be really nice, especially with grandma's eyesight going - and Roku can't provide that sort of functionality, anyway.
So yeah, for those who don't read a EULA and "have nothing to hide", a lower initial purchase price over a TV + Roku + cable, a single remote for most functions, and fewer wires to run are all things that are deemed positive selling points for TVs, much more so than buying one that avoids a questionable practice on page 29 of a legal document that no one has ever read.
Look, I know that "open source solution" is in the title. The low hanging fruit is already camping out in the thread - Bacula, Clonezilla, and script/cron/rsync are the major solutions there.
If the business is okay with "free, even for commercial use", Veeam Endpoint Backup is excellent. It will either back up to a Samba share or a Veeam B&R if you have one in the environment somewhere. It's legit freeware, and works very well.
Even if not for this particular case, it works well for laptops. It's the only free backup application i've seen that will back up to a USB drive, such that connecting the drive triggers a backup, rather than relying on a schedule. This is great for laptop users.
In the days of yore, ATI Radeon drivers were easy to work with - a simple, clearly labeled set of tabs that allowed monitors and GPU settings to be manipulated in the least amount of time possible...and the files were >50MB.
The latest iterations of the Catalyst Control Center are highly convoluted, poorly labeled, oversized, and just generally terrible to work with. If the interface from the Radeon 9000 series made a comeback with nothing but the required INF/CAT/CAB files for the new cards, that would be the single greatest thing they could do, and I see no reason why this isn't completely possible.
I'm unopposed to there being a "Radeon Studio", where other functionality can be used. If they made it a place to use their hardware accelerated video transcoder and allowed the creation of a RAM disk (and provided a place to put a Twitter feed, I guess...), that would be wonderful. There is not, however, a need for these functions in the drivers.
Of course if it did this, we would be complaining about how Siri is "tracking our movements".
The problem is that Siri is already tracking movements. The sales pitch is, "if Siri tracks your movements, she'll be able to help you with things like finding the nearest gas station or coffee shop", which can be useful when you need gas or coffee in unfamiliar territory.
People like me who are privacy conscious and already have neutered the GPS in our phone are unaffected, and people who couldn't care less about their location being public information aren't affected, either. Those who view Siri as a "data for data" exchange have reason to be upset because Apple isn't holding up their end of the bargain.
I'm certain you've got codebreakers breaking codes. If you're able to do this, and you'd like to establish a shred of good will, would you kindly package it into simple-to-use applications that will allow users to decrypt files held ransom by Cryptowall? You'd be strengthening your image while simultaneously hurting the economy of the sketchy side of the internet.
Yes, but those other crappy jobs don't typically involve gambling a billion dollars (usually of someone else's money, who will then be owed a favor upon your success) to get the job. They also tend not to involve decisions where the options are "a thousand soldiers die" and "a hundred civilians die".
Anyone who WANTS to gamble a billion dollars to make those kinds of decisions is highly suspect at best.
I know we have really thoughtful and intelligent people in this country, but for whatever reason, they don't seem to be able (or want) to compete with the horribly inept batch of clowns that we inevitably get.
What smart person wants to be blamed for every bad decision that other people make, every bad outcome no matter how much planning went into something, arguing with the "Pepsi" people who just don't want to agree with something from "Team Coke", owe this one a favor for lending support of a bill of theirs that inevitably means putting your name on something you don't actually support, make decisions that will affect thousands of lives in ways that couldn't possibly be foreseen (in some cases literally condemning some to die), and spend a billion dollars to do it?
Being the president is a crappy job, and every smart person realizes that.
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Agreed. Let's try this, but without the buzzwords:
Carmakers and their tier 1 parts suppliers at CES in January are expected to launch an...centered around...over-the-air updates. The number of in-vehicle processors continues to grow, and consumers have come to expect their car to mimic smartphone functionality. As hardware becomes more of a...increasingly cars will be... There will be about 464 automotive electronics exhibitors at this year's CES — a record number, according to IHS Automotive...will be a...at the show — ...and..., in the form of....and heads up displays, are expected to be among the most... ...speech recognition technology that uses ... to identify speech patterns more quickly will also be more commonplace. One development the analysts said they're "crossing their fingers" to see at the show is..., which allow carmakers to offer the latest electronic systems prior to a model launch. Today, car models are often launched with years-old electronics. ... and ... are also ... the native infotainment system makers' business. Analysts believe all carmakers will eventually offer both ... in future car models.
It is quite common for people to complain, that their computer has "become slow" — they don't realize, that the machine is just as fast as when they bought it, but the software (including open-source) has become more demanding.
tl;dr:
Moore's law: Hardware speed doubles every 18 months.
Gates's law: Software speed halves every 18 months.
There isn't any situation I can think of where speeding up will end up saving lives
Getting out of the way. In most cases, a car can accelerate out of the way of a car faster than its brakes can overcome intertia. Even if it can't, I'd much rather an accident where I get T-boned in the trunk than in one of the doors.
nor is that why cars can go faster than posted speed limits
Well, a car that maxed out at 55mph would be laughable in other states where 65 and 75 are common. trying to decide upon a national speed limit would be ridiculous, as it doesn't account for population density or geography/topography. Sure, this argues well for having cars max out at 90, rather than 120 or 140 (higher in some of the high end / exotic models), but a car that maxed out at 75 would be more desirable than one that maxes out at 55, and then we end up with interstate commerce hell...
nor does anybody teach swerving into the left hand (on-coming) lane to avoid an accident.
This particular lesson was covered as follows: "do whatever the hell it takes to avoid an accident". If that includes swerving into the left lane? so be it. Here's a for-instance: residential area, two lane road, a driver isn't looking too closely while backing out of the driveway. Do you retain your lane, or swerve into the left lane to avoid hitting his car in the rear wheel well area? Same for hitting a deer, fallen tree, road construction, idiot texting instead of looking at the road, a situation where the lights aren't synchronized and thus the left side is clear and the person in front of you stopped short...
That's just beyond brain dead
No, assuming that we're only talking about driving in a straight line on a highway, as if it is the only possible scenario where driving skills come into play, is beyond brain dead.
"let me trade this rear end collision with a head on collision, all day long!".
I am certain that the GP wasn't referring to crossing the divider when there was oncoming traffic. To more fully phrase it with the included context, his/her statement was this: "At present, Google cars treat the divider line as sacrosanct, and will not cross it under any circumstances. However, there are edge cases when driving where the best way of avoiding an an accident is to cross the line. Humans know that avoiding an accident is more important than staying in the lane; most humans would look at another human sideways if an accident took place because the driver adhered to lane markers rather than self preservation. This is expected of humans, but not of Google cars."
There are a few options for you in this respect:
1.) Run the Plex server on another machine, and use a drive mapping to give the Plex server access to your media library. This is what I do, but for other reasons.
2.) FreeNAS. Plex, OwnCloud, and CrashPlan are all two-click-install plug-ins. TT-RSS is fairly simple to install in a jail and there are a handful of cut-and-paste tutorials for doing so. A friend of mine who's Unix savvy has successfully gotten Piwigo to work in a FreeNAS jail (IMO better than Coppermine), though getting the complete stack to work in a FreeNAS is a bit limiting, but that obviously depends on what points on the list are truly necessary for your needs.
3.) Netgear's NAS units are surprisingly good. I got a 4-bay unit for a friend of mine for about $200 on Newegg. It supports a mix-and-match number of drives, has a mobile app, runs Plex, and its throughput numbers were solid. It may well be worth a look.
Whatever - if Obama was to declare that Christmas falls in December, there would be a storm of protests from so-called freedom advocates.
That's because Jesus was born in August, you insensitive clod!
DBA's are known for being rational and objective when discussing competing RDBMSs, I'm looking forward to this discussion. Maybe next we could discuss which is better Islam, Christianity, or atheism.
The answer is obvious:
Emacs
You misspelled "systemd". "Relational Database" is slated to become one of its new features for next year's release.
Looks great, but the free version only supports 1 account... That's good enough for a random person, but your average IT power user has at least three email accounts to handle...
The free version supports two accounts...and your average IT power user would end up paying twice as much for Outlook, and about the same price for the Thunderbird add-ons that support Exchange.
1. Copy legislator's license plates.
2. Place phony plates on cars near streets known to have a prostitution problem.
3. Hilarity ensues as Los Angeles legislators get prostitution warning letters.
Foreseen problems:
1. Legislator's license plates are whitelisted.
2. Their mail gets screened, so only some lowly mailroom attendant sees the mail.
3. Their spouse already knows they sleep around, so even a false positive would be filed along with the preapproved Discover card mailers.
Admittedly Windows-only, but I've personally become a *huge* fan of eM Client. Super fast, incredibly stable, works flawlessly with both IMAP and Exchange, nice interface, fast searches, simple data imports, extremely small system footprint (even smaller than Thunderbird), and if the free version doesn't cut it, $50 is a very reasonable asking price for the commercial/supported version.
Now, where Thunderbird still wins out is cross-platform compatibility, NNTP support, and its open source, so I'm not saying that it's a drop-in replacement for Thunderbird. I will say, however, that it's a near drop-in replacement for Outlook.
And no, I'm not affiliated with them, but I didn't think anything would save me from my Outlook addiction.
Well, let's see. They used to have simple version numbers (Photoshop 5, Premiere 6.1, etc.). This got them into a bit of trouble because, for example, the upgrade from Premiere 6.1 to Premiere 6.5 was a paid upgrade, but since it wasn't a major change in the actual back end code, that was a bit messy. Additionally, Adobe wanted to focus more on the program bundles rather than the individual applications, and thus the "Creative Suite" moniker was born. Incidentally, this also helped deal with the psychological "high version numbers" issue (anyone want WinZip version 20?).
Now, Adobe is betting the farm on everyone being okay with renting their software. Resultantly, they're trumpeting "All teh Updates!!!111", which they're hoping will make version numbers irrelevant - it's just "the most recent build we've rolled out the door". This ends up being a bit of a challenge because they also like doing Apple style keynotes, where they show all the CC subscribers how it's now possible to start editing videos on one's iPad and then continue on the editing bay. So, they thus distinguish the new feature sets that get introduced at the keynotes by the year of release of those features.
Finally, Adobe's core applications aren't going anywhere - Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects - none of them are going anywhere. In trying to make Adobe products more accessible to folks who don't have formal training in graphic/media design, things like Muse come into play...and since they're new products that don't have the long history, it makes sense to pick a name and branding that aligns with current trends. I'm sure that given the option, Adobe would rather have a list of edge case applications like Muse than to end up becoming known as a company like Oracle that continues to exist because support contracts. Adobe's also starting to see a handful of up-and-coming applications start to gain a certain amount of popularity. I don't care how much people like seeing the Photoshop splash screen, when Affinity Photo has 95% of the sophisticated functions of Photoshop, a similar UI, reads PSDs, and costs $50 one time, Adobe is going to take notice.
Besides, software naming has seldom followed a true convention.
You're making the mistake of thinking like a slashdotter,where you're absolutely right in your assessment. Allow me to paint a better picture of the average person whose data is actually involved.
1.) Registration with fake information? That's "sensible skepticism", a holdover from the earlier days of the internet. In the 90's, 1234 fake street, 123 maple street, and 12345 main street were quite crowded buildings. Since vanity and exhibitionism has become the norm on the internet, it's quite common to actually write out "Kyle Castillo, 672 Spruce Place, Schenectady, NY 18421". No one questions a request for an address anymore.
2.) E-mail addresses have become a bit more of an identity than they used to be. Google 'voyager529', and you'll see a whole lot of information about me...and 'voyager' isn't even really my name. Moreover, since "voyager529@aol.com" was deemed an 'unprofessional' e-mail address to have, 'Kyle.Castillo@gmail.com' became much more common. Thus, having an e-mail address that's actually tied to you is more identifiable now than it was in the past.
3.) You and I know that 'a picture of your kid' isn't all that much, but to those who are of the persuasion that the "zoom and enhance" magic on CSI is actually realistic, it's a hop, skip, and a jump to "they can remove clothes, and change positions, and...". Anyone who has actually used Photoshop knows that this is bollocks, but again, we're dealing with parents who buy toys for their children that include video chat and don't read the privacy policy where those things are stored.
4.) A child's chat log may not be noteworthy in itself, but remember that it's pretty simple to trick a child into something. If a particular child is targeted, and a person has enough information deemed important by the child to convince that child to follow them, it's possible to make a rather ugly mess because the child isn't likely to figure out that everything that is known by the stranger are things from the chat logs.
Why am *I* worked up? Because this seems like, possibly, the one hack where people might actually wake up and pay a bit of attention. For once, "Think of the children" works in our favor. For once, the levels of fear that *should* have been present elsewhere are worth considering. Under false pretenses and as a result of a generation who gets their computer jargon from primetime TV? Yeah, I'll admit that...but it's not like the majority of people beyond Slashdot have cared otherwise.
In addition to the already described points of "Black Friday" turning into "Black Week", and Amazon apps dinging us when there's a new deal we can swipe-left or swipe-right, the stores painted themselves into a bit of a corner - "up to 80% off!"...that thing that no one wants, ever. The things that are actually wanted are only 5% off. The $200 laptops...each store only gets three of them, so if you're dediated enough to be one of the first three in line, you might be lucky enough to get one, but stores stopped shipping reasonable quantities of doorbuster deals, so anyone who got up early and didn't get what they came for started saying "screw this" after the first few rounds of disappointment, finally coming to the realization that spending $20 more and having it shipped to them from Amazon was an infinitely better gamble than spending four hours freezing outside.
Black Friday used to be the day where it was possible to get actually good deals, but it got distilled until there was nothing left.
he took an off-the-shelf alarm clock, and made it look like a bomb. He did this very deliberately.
Reasonable doubt regarding motivations aside, there were a number of issues with the device being a bomb. Yes, it looked like a bomb if the only bomb you've ever seen has been from a Tom Cruise / Bruce Willis / Liam Neeson movie...but that that point, you're not qualified to determine what is and isn't a bomb. There was nothing even resembling an explosive charge in the case, and even Achmed the Dead Terrorist knows that you don't build a bomb that is required to be plugged into an electrical outlet in order to work, as you'd be rather defeated by way of unplugging the bomb.
Should the school have ignored, what could have been a bomb, because the kid was a Muslim?
No. You follow actual procedure, like "evacuating the building" and "calling a bomb diffusion team", and you treat it like it's actually got an explosive charge, none of which was done. Sure, hold the kid in the principles office (or some approximation thereof as a result of the evacuation procedure), and when the bomb squad tells you that it's absolutely not a bomb, you hand the device back to the student and say, "even though it's not a bomb, I don't want to see this in school again". THAT is how you deal with this situation - treat the device like a bomb, and then when you find out that it isn't a bomb, you treat the student like he's not in possession of a bomb. Not that hard.
What sort of litigation would there have been if it was a bomb, and the school did nothing?
Oh plenty...but the reason why they'd be lawsuited to hell and back in that case would be because they didn't follow the procedures they were supposed to follow when dealing with a bomb scare.
Now, all of that being said, even RIAA/MPAA math would have trouble coming up with $15 million in damages from the situation. A mess was made by all parties involved, these things happen, apologies were made, and I wouldn't be patently against filing a four figure lawsuit + court fees, just on principle. Lawsuits like this though are why we can't have nice things.
Counterargument: Macbooks aren't always $1,500. They sell units now with 128gb of storage, which fits very little - a handful of phone backups or iPhoto storage will eat that alive. 256 and 512 are obviously preferable, but one must know how much storage they will need at time of purchase, since it's not possible to upgrade later..and units with that amount of internal storage are a lot more expensive - the 1TB upgrade for a MacBook Pro is an $800 add-on. With the USB port count as low as it can go, external storage isn't much fun. You can buy a Synology or similar NAS, but that is necessitated by the storage situation on the machine. "Put it all in iCloud" is the go-to battle cry, but that cost would need to get factored in, and using iCloud at the exclusion of any other storage method means that you're at Apple's mercy to keep your data safe.
Yes, a $1,500 Macbook that holds up for five years is a better deal than a $500 Dell unit every two years...but over ten years, two $1,500 Macbooks + storage solution + de facto mandatory USB adapters + Applecare over ten years is, depending on exactly which combination of things you get, still notably more expensive than five new $500 Dell units over the same period.
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A near-equivalent, if not superior, DDR experience on your computer.
We need an excuse to outlaw encryption again? (Score:1)
by Opportunist (166417)
I bet my rear end that no later than tomorrow we'll get to hear about how we have to outlaw telling people how to use encryption and how to avoid being tracked on the internet.
I am confident that we can rely on Cameron to not disappoint us.
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Comcast sells video service. T-Mobile does not. Comcast gets money if you subscribe to Xfinity. T-Mobile does not get money if you subscribe to Netflix. Thus, Comcast has a conflict of interest. T-Mobile does not.
Moreover, at least based on what it said right now, T-Mobile has solely technical requirements to meet in order to be part of BingeOn - whether you're Netflix or Comcast or Verizon Video* or Pornhub, if you meet their technological criteria, you're in**. Thus, in its present state, this isn't truly subject to the hypothetical scenario you're painting.
*No, Verizon Video doesn't exist in this respect. What I'm getting at is that T-Mobile's current rule set allow for a direct competitor to enter into this model, which is why it's not a conflict of interest like the Comcast example.
**One could argue that the "technological criteria" requirement could be stretched to "interstate commerce clause" levels, e.g. "videos must be in 720p .mp4 video, and not originate from servers with 'comcast.net', 'verizon.net', or 'att.net' in their DNS resolution traffic", but thus far, there's no evidence that T-Mobile intends to do this.
First off, pretend you're the average person going to Best Buy with $500 to spend on a new TV (approximately the median for a ~40" LED set). You're not super technical, but you know that you watch TV from your cable company, DVDs on occasion, and Netflix. You don't presently have a Roku or other set top box for streaming (that side of things is done on your tablet at the moment), so you have to factor that into your purchase.
You get to Best Buy, and there are a dozen TVs in your price range to choose from. You need to weed them out somehow. Start with the size - units that are too large to fit in the entertainment center are out, but if you're wall mounting, kill off the smallest ones available; no need to get a 40" when you can get 50" for the same price. That leaves you with half a dozen possibilities. Rule out the Insignia ones, because Best Buy's store brand doesn't instill confidence. You've got an LG unit, a Samsung unit, and a Sony unit left, all 46". Now, you need a differentiating factor to ultimately choose which you prefer. Now, one may well search the internet for reviews to see if there are any obvious standouts in either direction, but let's assume that that's not practical for whatever reason. If you get a TV with Netflix integrated, you save $70 by not buying a Roku, and another $70 by not buying an HDMI cable, and you won't need a separate Roku remote. On top of that, the integrated camera and microphone would make it really nice to be able to Skype with out of state family - not a purchase consideration initially, but it'd be really nice, especially with grandma's eyesight going - and Roku can't provide that sort of functionality, anyway.
So yeah, for those who don't read a EULA and "have nothing to hide", a lower initial purchase price over a TV + Roku + cable, a single remote for most functions, and fewer wires to run are all things that are deemed positive selling points for TVs, much more so than buying one that avoids a questionable practice on page 29 of a legal document that no one has ever read.
Look, I know that "open source solution" is in the title. The low hanging fruit is already camping out in the thread - Bacula, Clonezilla, and script/cron/rsync are the major solutions there.
If the business is okay with "free, even for commercial use", Veeam Endpoint Backup is excellent. It will either back up to a Samba share or a Veeam B&R if you have one in the environment somewhere. It's legit freeware, and works very well.
Even if not for this particular case, it works well for laptops. It's the only free backup application i've seen that will back up to a USB drive, such that connecting the drive triggers a backup, rather than relying on a schedule. This is great for laptop users.
In the days of yore, ATI Radeon drivers were easy to work with - a simple, clearly labeled set of tabs that allowed monitors and GPU settings to be manipulated in the least amount of time possible...and the files were >50MB.
The latest iterations of the Catalyst Control Center are highly convoluted, poorly labeled, oversized, and just generally terrible to work with. If the interface from the Radeon 9000 series made a comeback with nothing but the required INF/CAT/CAB files for the new cards, that would be the single greatest thing they could do, and I see no reason why this isn't completely possible.
I'm unopposed to there being a "Radeon Studio", where other functionality can be used. If they made it a place to use their hardware accelerated video transcoder and allowed the creation of a RAM disk (and provided a place to put a Twitter feed, I guess...), that would be wonderful. There is not, however, a need for these functions in the drivers.
This really isn't that complicated.
Of course if it did this, we would be complaining about how Siri is "tracking our movements".
The problem is that Siri is already tracking movements. The sales pitch is, "if Siri tracks your movements, she'll be able to help you with things like finding the nearest gas station or coffee shop", which can be useful when you need gas or coffee in unfamiliar territory.
People like me who are privacy conscious and already have neutered the GPS in our phone are unaffected, and people who couldn't care less about their location being public information aren't affected, either. Those who view Siri as a "data for data" exchange have reason to be upset because Apple isn't holding up their end of the bargain.
I'm certain you've got codebreakers breaking codes. If you're able to do this, and you'd like to establish a shred of good will, would you kindly package it into simple-to-use applications that will allow users to decrypt files held ransom by Cryptowall? You'd be strengthening your image while simultaneously hurting the economy of the sketchy side of the internet.
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The answer, obviously, is a hot grits cannon.
Yes, but only Natalie Portman can fire it, so what's the point?
The point is having a justification for using taxpayer dollars to clone Natalie Portman.
Yes, but those other crappy jobs don't typically involve gambling a billion dollars (usually of someone else's money, who will then be owed a favor upon your success) to get the job. They also tend not to involve decisions where the options are "a thousand soldiers die" and "a hundred civilians die".
Anyone who WANTS to gamble a billion dollars to make those kinds of decisions is highly suspect at best.
I know we have really thoughtful and intelligent people in this country, but for whatever reason, they don't seem to be able (or want) to compete with the horribly inept batch of clowns that we inevitably get.
What smart person wants to be blamed for every bad decision that other people make, every bad outcome no matter how much planning went into something, arguing with the "Pepsi" people who just don't want to agree with something from "Team Coke", owe this one a favor for lending support of a bill of theirs that inevitably means putting your name on something you don't actually support, make decisions that will affect thousands of lives in ways that couldn't possibly be foreseen (in some cases literally condemning some to die), and spend a billion dollars to do it?
Being the president is a crappy job, and every smart person realizes that.