They are both scummy companies and shouldn't be trusted. It's Nexus or nothing.
Not sure why you're trusting Google here. Are you disassembling the binaries in your Android operating system*? If not, then you have no idea what Google's doing there to use the sensors you've got strapped to your body 24/7. The only safe smartphone is one that doesn't have sensors at all, and has a physically removable antenna and battery or physical off switches for both.
(*And face it, no body is. Even if, in principle, it's possible, no one is *actually* doing it before use except security researchers.)
Going back to the article, though... I'm surprised LG doesn't have a larger share of the market -- and isn't making more in the way of profit. I've been a fan of their phones since the EnV chiclet keyboard days, up through the touch feature phones, and have had the G2, G3, and G5. They've all for the most part been extremely reliable phones with good feature sets and a camera that's second-to-none at the price point for low light conditions.
There are systemd-free distros of Linux, you know. I can pretty confidently state that it will remain that way unless systemd should start to integrate itself into the kernel.
Well, yes... Most importantly RHEL6 / CentOS6. Those of us using Linux in business/enterprise settings are mostly running that, and that's mostly what we care about. The time limit on that is what we're sweating.
RedHat (Inc.) seems to be undervaluing its Good Will in terms of building an enterprise platform that goes well beyond RHEL subscriptions. EL users don't care about most of the systemd "feature" set (with the possible exception of easy(-ier) cgroup management), since most of the rest either doesn't apply or attempts to re-solve and already mostly-solved problem (eg, service monitoring and restart scripts). The cost is using less mature, less modular, less tested code with more common failure points, which might cover 80% of your needs but makes the other 20% of system customization really, really difficult, because apparently shell scripting is a Sin now.
Oh, and most of your config management that worked pretty similarly between EL5 and EL6 has a *lot* more of a delta to work with EL7.
"Forking Fedora" doesn't seem like it will happen, even though there are fewer and fewer non Kool-Aid drinkers there who think keeping your options open is a good thing.
Do you know what I'd like for EL8? Fork EL6, update all the non-daemon RPM versions to their current Fedora level, and run systemd as Just Another Daemon, akin to xinetd, supervise, or your cluster management software.
We get more reliable and more deterministic startup and shutdown process using the previous initscripts toolset and regular/sbin/init, and those who want the management capabilities of systemd for services can still use it, albeit with it not functioning as PID 1. I'd pay for that.
I'd rather have to join 5 tables then parse one UUID made up of 5 pieces on information concatenated together.
Why? (Assuming you're not searching for it in a way that requires discrete indexes.)
God created perl for a reason, and sometimes it's a hell of a lot easier to make your DB simple rather than normalized to hell and back. Flattening tables can be a good thing.
If you're providing only wireless service, that means cell towers and crowded radio spectrum. The phone companies are already doing this, so expanding from 3G to 4G to 5G is basically a hardware upgrade at designated points (unless someone tries WiMax 2.0).
Cable companies spent *decades* building out coax networks, and then 20 more years upgrading to digital cable (ie, fiber to area). Most fiber in use nowadays still goes over fiber that was laid down (or over paths that were originally built out) during the dot com era, the creation of which led to many of those companies' bankruptcy. Speaking of dot com, we tried the ILEC sells circuits to CO-provider which is resold by an ISP to provide consumer competition market and it collapsed along with everything else back then. (Thanks, COVAD.)
So aside from wireless upgrades, everything else requires a last mile physical path to homes. New homes can be built with whatever in an urban or suburban area, but existing homes outside of downtown cores, and rural homes of any type, don't justify additional, non-unified wireline build-outs for the cost. If you're hitting 25Mbps, you should ask yourself how much more you're willing to pay to go up to 50 or 100Mbps. Then, add in all of your neighbors and divide by the cost of the build-out. If the math doesn't work, you won't get it. If the math does work, a local provider should step in. If no one steps in, go to a bank and do it yourself and make a profit.
For an organization capable of doing all this, using BadUSB or some other attack would certainly be in the realm of plausibility.
I love how people think that "air gaped" means "successfully isolated" though. Not only do you have the obvious vector of floppy^H^H^H^H^H^H USB transmission, but there are plenty of other esoteric methods that have been demonstrated in labs and could be used to infiltrate commands to a listener and exfiltrate data back out. If you're walking to an air-gapped system with a laptop in hand, then it's not just WiFi transmissions you need to worry about... modem signals over browser pages being listened to by mics has been demonstrated easily.
That'd probably be the death of facebook if they try that. Believe it or not, there's not nearly enough people out there that would pay a subscription fee every month to use facebook - certainly not enough to replace their advertising income. (Otherwise they would have done it already.)
The only reason Facebook works at all is because it's free, which encourages people to use it to connect to their friends and family. You require subscriptions and 70% of their userbase simply leave, making the remaining 30% wonder why they stay if 70% of the people they know aren't on it. This is why most other social sites aren't able to get off the ground - they can't get enough people to join because everyone else is already using facebook and few people want to sign up for multiple services.
I think you're underestimating the fact that there's already a critical mass here. They don't have to get everyone to switch over to a subscription model; in fact it's probably worthy as a premium feature in and of itself.
There are two major issues, however:
1) Ads on the side of the page are easy to remove, but a "sponsored page" post you see in your feed is itself an ad. A FB page is paying to have more visibility in timelines than it otherwise would be allowed. FB makes a great deal of money from ad campaigns, even ones by pages to simply ensure that their own page followers actually do see their content. This model goes away for someone paying to remove ads. One could expect that FB would give a completely neutral (ie, algorithm-based) ranking to page posts for those users, but it's been quite a while since they've done that and we don't know what that really looks like. 2) Being presented with advertising (or not) only covers a small portion of the privacy-concerning and tracking aspects of Facebook. Not seeing ads may make it a little cleaner, but it's not solving the underlying issue for someone who's paying for the experience.
I can see them providing two levels of payment: Facebook for everyone! - $0.00/mo Don't see ads on Facebook - $6.99/mo Don't see ads and don't have Facebook's AI tracking you + premium support - $13.99/mo
Would those be worth it to you?
Honestly, it probably would to me. I have hundreds of people scattered all across the world. In 2016, it would be impossible to proactively communicate with all of them and still have time in the day. FB provides a service, and -- counting mobile -- I spend more time on the site than I do using the Netflix or Hulu subscriptions I'm paying for. I'd trade dollars for decreased tracking (and lack of long term storage once identity is confirmed enough to note that) and decreased ads. I'm sure with the billions of people who *won't* go that route, their machine-learning initiatives will not be materially affected.
Seriously, with Win10 you pretty much accept that any of your info / personal docs / etc may be sent to Microsoft. So yes, an alternative would be fantastic to run on that hardware.
Hardware is nice, shame about the software.
For most non-enterprise users, there is FAR more useful information about them on their smartphones than on their desktops.
My Windows 10 desktop has nothing remotely as privacy-endangering as having a GPS locator, accelerometer, live microphone, and two cameras strapped to my body 24/7.
The average American with a smartphone has far, far more to fear about their privacy being abused in unexpected ways by Google and Apple than by Microsoft. It's not even close.
To be fair, it's a different kind of riff-raff. Corporate shennanigans might be of a different type of shennanigans than an ISIS user who got told by his buddy to use the service. Let's not pretend that the differences can't lead to a different moral determination.
At the very least, having only enterprise contracts leaves them with someone very easy to sue if something is misused.
I'm not sure the "that doesn't count as sexual relations" thing is the best explanation if this is a recent trend. I'd have expected it to show up in responses long before now, not just those who actively grew up after the infamous Clinton episode.
Compared to the 1960's? Sure. But that effect should have begun becoming noticeable pretty early in the 2000's, when teens old enough to be paying attention (somewhat) to culture and politics would have started becoming sexually active.
If I turn it on I will then have to set the time again and wait while it downloads the fifteen updates that occurred between now and the last time I turned it on a couple of years ago.
Updates? I think that would require someone within Sony to actually remember that it existed, and that's *really* stretching credibility.;-)
In fact, rumour has it they only continue to manufacture and sell the PS Vita because management forgot it existed so completely that none of them called the factory to cancel production.
Nah. It's actually decently popular in Japan, where handhelds besides the 3DS still hold sway. It's a niche product in the US now, but still gets a lot of import and JRPG-style releases. Fez was pretty fun on it to, and if you have a PS4 and enjoy the occasional Remote Play it's a no-brainer.
That's slower than mine normally takes, especially from a cold start. Are you using the OEM AC cable/adapter? If you're going straight from another USB plug, what amperage is it? If from a power strip, anything else plugged in?
Any chance you've been treating the battery wrong all these years?
I guess he forgot about the old Microsoft motto: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. It's still alive today, albeit a bit more subtle than it used to be.
The industry as a whole seems to have forgotten the events of 15-20 years ago (as is common in human society).
If it hadn't, we wouldn't have let systemd do the exact same thing with regards to compatibility with non-systemd distributions, let alone other Unices.
"Sure, all you have to do is add a hard dependency on our library!" "They way you've been doing for 30 years is incorrect, here make a chance that will force mindshare onto your entire userbase." "Distributions CAN use something other than the defaults, but we want them to use the defaults and there's no guarantee that not using the defaults will ever continue to work."
This sums things up perfectly. I keep seeing "news stories" about things that have been going on since mankind first drug itself out of whatever cave it was living in being rebranded as something that these newfangled kids are doing.
I don't get it.
The current generally has virtually no historical awareness for anything pre-2005. This is beyond the "normal" cyclic view of history and re-inventions, many of them have only the barest knowledge of life before YouTube. I grew up well after the '70s, but somehow I had cultural awareness of the Vietnam War and its influence on the then-present-day as I was a teen and into my twenties.
The current generation (I don't like the term "Millennial" since I find it to be too broad... let's say the "Digital Natives" (vs. Generation Y, which was roughly born 1980-1992)) is living in the eternal present, unable to re-contextualize current events. Gen Y and Gen X are doing this too, but at least we're doing it ironically. We still remember the critical thinking thought processes we were raised on, whereas they never really got that to begin with.
For decades they have been telling kids to work hard and achieve all they can. To get a good job you need a degree, they said. And she enough, all the good jobs list a degree as a requirement.
Degrees used to be free of course, or at least quite cheap. And there were good jobs that paid the debt off.
Millennials made the decision to get an education based on the advice they had at the time. They were 18, younger even. And it worked out well for their parents.
But oh, sorry, we broke the economy and well, someone's gotta pay... And it won't be us, we've got ours.
I pity the H/S graduating classes of 2007 and 2008, who didn't really know any better but weren't in a position to change course. Anyone afterwards knew damn well that they had to think carefully about their major, about getting a job, and about vocational schooling as an option.
Anyone before then should have remembered the echo from the dot-com implosion and recession, and/or was old enough to know that their degree in Religious Studies and Art History was not going to pay the bills. I remember telling people that, but they continued anyway. That was a *conscious* choice for them that they had plenty of time to reconsider their huge incoming student loan debt -- and with a decent job market, they had options.
If you refuse to give a legible fingerprint when your fingerprints are being taken at the jail, for example by trying to move your fingers back and forth so the ink smudges, the bailiff or other police official will just hold you down until they can get a valid read. You have no right to prevent that from being done.
If you do the same thing, but in a way that surreptitiously destroys the evidence on the phone in the process (knowledge of the switch, and your awareness that you're using the wrong finger to do it), you're destroying evidence. That's not just contempt, that's obstruction of justice.. and a nice federal jail sentence.
It wears out ridiculously fast. I've had to find the "sweet spot" on an untold number of 3.5mm jacks. You either have to twist the plug to the perfect angle or apply pressure on the correct side, or else you get no sound or severely diminished sound.
This has been my experience as well. Not every jack fails - but it still happens more often than for any other jack type that I commonly use.
This is cray. I've used tons of audio jacks over the years (being both an audio person and a mobile DJ). I've worn our FAR more micro-USB ports (and more expensively to replace) than I've ever had problems with headphone jacks. And the two times I've had problems with headphones, a tiny amount of solder fixed it.
Something has seriously gone off the rails when an ad/image designer either a) cares directly, and/or b) has insight into device power management and usage.
You're doing it wrong.
How about devices, firmware writers, OS writers, library writers, and application writers (browsers in this case) focus on the power management and we keep remote content creators out of the loop. If you need end-to-end awareness of things like this, it's a sign that your different layers are unable to make sane design choices or write sane platform specifications internally. It's also a sign that you don't care about leaking data far and wide to things that should have no need for that info. (cf. Uber and pricing changes when your battery is low.)
If there's ever been a story worthy of the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" slashdot tag, it's this.
Technological Solutionism didn't begin with oblivious Bay Area Millennials who never learned any history thinking that any problem can be solved if you just throw enough data, tech, money, cloud, systemd, Elon Musk, VC money, Obama, and Nate Silver's at it.
Unfortunately, that lack of awareness leads to the hubris in central planning, except that you've moved it from a technocratic paper pusher to a technocratic algorithm writer, an ethically oblivious data scientist, or -- scariest of all -- an app developer. That's how you get Giant Leaps Forward and jackboots.
Well, it’s a bit of an exaggeration to call it a failure.
Communism has killed far more people than all the 20th Century wars combined, while Western Capitalism has raised the standard of living. It was a failure. That's why the capitalists won and will continue to win. The ONLY thing that will change this will be a fundamental rewrite of the laws of economics and/or human nature. Humans don't change, and the laws of economics won't change globally until a replicator is invented along with locally-free energy and is actually distributed worldwide. *Then* we can talk about TNG-style post-scarcity. Anyone who thinks we're living in a post-scarcity economy in 2016 is confusing their parents' house for the real world.
Look, there's nothing wrong with being a rational actor on both sides here. The original contract is over and every single person on one of these plans is month to month. A partnership or business relationship not otherwise restricted will only exist for as long as it makes sense for both sides.
You idiots abusing a shared resource have pushed Verizon into accepting a PR hit in exchange for not having to deal with your douchebaggery any more. So be it. This is why we can't have nice things.
Anyone who's ever worked at an ISP knows about the predictions network engineers have to make when deciding how oversubscribed one network segment will be, and what kind of utilization can be allowed. These are consumer plans, not business SLA hookups, and if they can save themselves headaches by kicking the %.00001 off their network, it's fine by them. If you want to pay $500/month for 100GB of transfer, find a local ISP who can metro-link you an Ethernet hand-off and be done with it. Wireless networks were not meant for that level of individual usage.
This might have been a troll, but it's a valid point. In the US, any phone that is turned on needs to be able to make an emergency 911 call, regardless of network access / bill payment / identity / SIM card / etc.
For a phone already turned on, you can do this from the lock screen. On my new LG G5 with PIN required on boot, you can do this from the PIN/boot entry screen.
It does raise the valid question: Is this a further check prior to the... boot loader? PIN boot phase? If so, how much of the phone is and isn't running prior to the remainder of the OS load and what is or isn't "secure"... The meta has to bottom out somewhere, and unless the phone is actually broken, regs might require at least the phone connection to work.
By FAR the easiest SIGINT on a subject in a first world country will be via telemetry they're sending from their smartphone and computers, either consciously, not-really-thinking-about-it consciously, or via a hack.
It's safe to say that Google and Apple (smartphones/browsers) and Facebook (link tracking that's not done via Ad Words) have more raw data collection ability than the NSA natively does. That makes it trivial to tap into that feed as needed... But that's because anything the government *can* do there, *IS* being done by the commercial entities as part of their data aggregation business.
As I remember, merely inserting the diskette would do absolutely nothing. You had to either run a program from the diskette, or forget to take it out of the drive when you (re)booted the machine in order to actually "catch" anything from it.
Autorun didn't come along until Windows 95.
Maybe they're thinking of the Mac's System software... There were several viruses on the Mac that could be spread just by insertion since the Finder (or System) would load the Desktop file on the disk insert event.
What happened? Is this the result of the new owners? Are people's opinions so easily swayed? Is this a case of not thinking it through originally?
Anyone who's been around here long enough remembers how we all felt about M$ back in the day, and the removal of shackles that Linux and OSS represented (both to that and to the traditional Unixes), and for a long time crowd-sourced [anything] was seen as an inherent good by analogy. Hell, it worked for everything else!
Fetishizing data collection (knowledge!) and rapidity (disruption!) over philosophic understanding is bad, but that's basically all of the larger tech industry right now, *especially* those to dumb/stupid/oblivious/young to know their history and who haven't taken enough critical thinking and theory of knowledge courses.
a) Uber intentionally breaks the law first and asks questions later b) Uber's success comes from the breaking of the laws relating to taxicab services and employment c) Uber's fucking evil. They spy on political enemies and journalists they don't like.
We tried unregulated taxicabs in America. We decided to regulate them because of external factors (strange people; crime; discrimination; pricing). If the taxi companies were deregulated as well, then I suppose they could fight fairly, but Uber's winning only because of that, and then abusing its IC workforce in the courts. They're everything that's wrong with the "gig economy" that millennials are convincing themselves is somehow a good.
... only that they didn't already have a content block like this up already. (I'm sure it was already against the click-through ToS, but that's basically meaningless anyway.) There's nothing unreasonable about this. It's a public place, it's a private service, etc. I seem to recall a case a while back about public libraries being OK with blocking this on community-standards grounds in some jurisdictions.
And seriously, if you need to go to McDonalds and configure a VPN to watch porn you should probably try to put that effort into improving your career prospects so you can afford an internet connection at home.
If I recall correctly, Consumer Reports was the same organization that demerited cars for having electric power windows because they said something to the effect that you'd be trapped in the event your car sank in a body of water.
Actually that does happen on occasion. It's usually not blamed on the electric windows unless someone else managed to survive and can say what happened, but it factors into it. Do you carry a glass-break device (hammer or whatever) with easy reach in the passenger compartment? If not, you're at risk with automatic locks on a way that someone with a manual override -- that is... a crank -- isn't.
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They are both scummy companies and shouldn't be trusted. It's Nexus or nothing.
Not sure why you're trusting Google here. Are you disassembling the binaries in your Android operating system*? If not, then you have no idea what Google's doing there to use the sensors you've got strapped to your body 24/7. The only safe smartphone is one that doesn't have sensors at all, and has a physically removable antenna and battery or physical off switches for both.
(*And face it, no body is. Even if, in principle, it's possible, no one is *actually* doing it before use except security researchers.)
Going back to the article, though... I'm surprised LG doesn't have a larger share of the market -- and isn't making more in the way of profit. I've been a fan of their phones since the EnV chiclet keyboard days, up through the touch feature phones, and have had the G2, G3, and G5. They've all for the most part been extremely reliable phones with good feature sets and a camera that's second-to-none at the price point for low light conditions.
There are systemd-free distros of Linux, you know. I can pretty confidently state that it will remain that way unless systemd should start to integrate itself into the kernel.
Well, yes... Most importantly RHEL6 / CentOS6. Those of us using Linux in business/enterprise settings are mostly running that, and that's mostly what we care about. The time limit on that is what we're sweating.
RedHat (Inc.) seems to be undervaluing its Good Will in terms of building an enterprise platform that goes well beyond RHEL subscriptions. EL users don't care about most of the systemd "feature" set (with the possible exception of easy(-ier) cgroup management), since most of the rest either doesn't apply or attempts to re-solve and already mostly-solved problem (eg, service monitoring and restart scripts). The cost is using less mature, less modular, less tested code with more common failure points, which might cover 80% of your needs but makes the other 20% of system customization really, really difficult, because apparently shell scripting is a Sin now.
Oh, and most of your config management that worked pretty similarly between EL5 and EL6 has a *lot* more of a delta to work with EL7.
"Forking Fedora" doesn't seem like it will happen, even though there are fewer and fewer non Kool-Aid drinkers there who think keeping your options open is a good thing.
Do you know what I'd like for EL8? Fork EL6, update all the non-daemon RPM versions to their current Fedora level, and run systemd as Just Another Daemon, akin to xinetd, supervise, or your cluster management software.
We get more reliable and more deterministic startup and shutdown process using the previous initscripts toolset and regular /sbin/init, and those who want the management capabilities of systemd for services can still use it, albeit with it not functioning as PID 1. I'd pay for that.
I'd rather have to join 5 tables then parse one UUID made up of 5 pieces on information concatenated together.
Why? (Assuming you're not searching for it in a way that requires discrete indexes.)
God created perl for a reason, and sometimes it's a hell of a lot easier to make your DB simple rather than normalized to hell and back. Flattening tables can be a good thing.
If you're providing only wireless service, that means cell towers and crowded radio spectrum. The phone companies are already doing this, so expanding from 3G to 4G to 5G is basically a hardware upgrade at designated points (unless someone tries WiMax 2.0).
Cable companies spent *decades* building out coax networks, and then 20 more years upgrading to digital cable (ie, fiber to area). Most fiber in use nowadays still goes over fiber that was laid down (or over paths that were originally built out) during the dot com era, the creation of which led to many of those companies' bankruptcy. Speaking of dot com, we tried the ILEC sells circuits to CO-provider which is resold by an ISP to provide consumer competition market and it collapsed along with everything else back then. (Thanks, COVAD.)
So aside from wireless upgrades, everything else requires a last mile physical path to homes. New homes can be built with whatever in an urban or suburban area, but existing homes outside of downtown cores, and rural homes of any type, don't justify additional, non-unified wireline build-outs for the cost. If you're hitting 25Mbps, you should ask yourself how much more you're willing to pay to go up to 50 or 100Mbps. Then, add in all of your neighbors and divide by the cost of the build-out. If the math doesn't work, you won't get it. If the math does work, a local provider should step in. If no one steps in, go to a bank and do it yourself and make a profit.
For an organization capable of doing all this, using BadUSB or some other attack would certainly be in the realm of plausibility.
I love how people think that "air gaped" means "successfully isolated" though. Not only do you have the obvious vector of floppy^H^H^H^H^H^H USB transmission, but there are plenty of other esoteric methods that have been demonstrated in labs and could be used to infiltrate commands to a listener and exfiltrate data back out. If you're walking to an air-gapped system with a laptop in hand, then it's not just WiFi transmissions you need to worry about... modem signals over browser pages being listened to by mics has been demonstrated easily.
That'd probably be the death of facebook if they try that. Believe it or not, there's not nearly enough people out there that would pay a subscription fee every month to use facebook - certainly not enough to replace their advertising income. (Otherwise they would have done it already.)
The only reason Facebook works at all is because it's free, which encourages people to use it to connect to their friends and family. You require subscriptions and 70% of their userbase simply leave, making the remaining 30% wonder why they stay if 70% of the people they know aren't on it. This is why most other social sites aren't able to get off the ground - they can't get enough people to join because everyone else is already using facebook and few people want to sign up for multiple services.
I think you're underestimating the fact that there's already a critical mass here. They don't have to get everyone to switch over to a subscription model; in fact it's probably worthy as a premium feature in and of itself.
There are two major issues, however:
1) Ads on the side of the page are easy to remove, but a "sponsored page" post you see in your feed is itself an ad. A FB page is paying to have more visibility in timelines than it otherwise would be allowed. FB makes a great deal of money from ad campaigns, even ones by pages to simply ensure that their own page followers actually do see their content. This model goes away for someone paying to remove ads. One could expect that FB would give a completely neutral (ie, algorithm-based) ranking to page posts for those users, but it's been quite a while since they've done that and we don't know what that really looks like.
2) Being presented with advertising (or not) only covers a small portion of the privacy-concerning and tracking aspects of Facebook. Not seeing ads may make it a little cleaner, but it's not solving the underlying issue for someone who's paying for the experience.
I can see them providing two levels of payment:
Facebook for everyone! - $0.00/mo
Don't see ads on Facebook - $6.99/mo
Don't see ads and don't have Facebook's AI tracking you + premium support - $13.99/mo
Would those be worth it to you?
Honestly, it probably would to me. I have hundreds of people scattered all across the world. In 2016, it would be impossible to proactively communicate with all of them and still have time in the day. FB provides a service, and -- counting mobile -- I spend more time on the site than I do using the Netflix or Hulu subscriptions I'm paying for. I'd trade dollars for decreased tracking (and lack of long term storage once identity is confirmed enough to note that) and decreased ads. I'm sure with the billions of people who *won't* go that route, their machine-learning initiatives will not be materially affected.
Seriously, with Win10 you pretty much accept that any of your info / personal docs / etc may be sent to Microsoft. So yes, an alternative would be fantastic to run on that hardware.
Hardware is nice, shame about the software.
For most non-enterprise users, there is FAR more useful information about them on their smartphones than on their desktops.
My Windows 10 desktop has nothing remotely as privacy-endangering as having a GPS locator, accelerometer, live microphone, and two cameras strapped to my body 24/7.
The average American with a smartphone has far, far more to fear about their privacy being abused in unexpected ways by Google and Apple than by Microsoft. It's not even close.
To be fair, it's a different kind of riff-raff. Corporate shennanigans might be of a different type of shennanigans than an ISIS user who got told by his buddy to use the service. Let's not pretend that the differences can't lead to a different moral determination.
At the very least, having only enterprise contracts leaves them with someone very easy to sue if something is misused.
I'm not sure the "that doesn't count as sexual relations" thing is the best explanation if this is a recent trend. I'd have expected it to show up in responses long before now, not just those who actively grew up after the infamous Clinton episode.
Compared to the 1960's? Sure. But that effect should have begun becoming noticeable pretty early in the 2000's, when teens old enough to be paying attention (somewhat) to culture and politics would have started becoming sexually active.
If I turn it on I will then have to set the time again and wait while it downloads the fifteen updates that occurred between now and the last time I turned it on a couple of years ago.
Updates? I think that would require someone within Sony to actually remember that it existed, and that's *really* stretching credibility. ;-)
In fact, rumour has it they only continue to manufacture and sell the PS Vita because management forgot it existed so completely that none of them called the factory to cancel production.
Nah. It's actually decently popular in Japan, where handhelds besides the 3DS still hold sway. It's a niche product in the US now, but still gets a lot of import and JRPG-style releases. Fez was pretty fun on it to, and if you have a PS4 and enjoy the occasional Remote Play it's a no-brainer.
That's slower than mine normally takes, especially from a cold start. Are you using the OEM AC cable/adapter? If you're going straight from another USB plug, what amperage is it? If from a power strip, anything else plugged in?
Any chance you've been treating the battery wrong all these years?
I guess he forgot about the old Microsoft motto: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. It's still alive today, albeit a bit more subtle than it used to be.
The industry as a whole seems to have forgotten the events of 15-20 years ago (as is common in human society).
If it hadn't, we wouldn't have let systemd do the exact same thing with regards to compatibility with non-systemd distributions, let alone other Unices.
"Sure, all you have to do is add a hard dependency on our library!"
"They way you've been doing for 30 years is incorrect, here make a chance that will force mindshare onto your entire userbase."
"Distributions CAN use something other than the defaults, but we want them to use the defaults and there's no guarantee that not using the defaults will ever continue to work."
This sums things up perfectly. I keep seeing "news stories" about things that have been going on since mankind first drug itself out of whatever cave it was living in being rebranded as something that these newfangled kids are doing.
I don't get it.
The current generally has virtually no historical awareness for anything pre-2005. This is beyond the "normal" cyclic view of history and re-inventions, many of them have only the barest knowledge of life before YouTube. I grew up well after the '70s, but somehow I had cultural awareness of the Vietnam War and its influence on the then-present-day as I was a teen and into my twenties.
The current generation (I don't like the term "Millennial" since I find it to be too broad ... let's say the "Digital Natives" (vs. Generation Y, which was roughly born 1980-1992)) is living in the eternal present, unable to re-contextualize current events. Gen Y and Gen X are doing this too, but at least we're doing it ironically. We still remember the critical thinking thought processes we were raised on, whereas they never really got that to begin with.
Fuck you.
For decades they have been telling kids to work hard and achieve all they can. To get a good job you need a degree, they said. And she enough, all the good jobs list a degree as a requirement.
Degrees used to be free of course, or at least quite cheap. And there were good jobs that paid the debt off.
Millennials made the decision to get an education based on the advice they had at the time. They were 18, younger even. And it worked out well for their parents.
But oh, sorry, we broke the economy and well, someone's gotta pay... And it won't be us, we've got ours.
I pity the H/S graduating classes of 2007 and 2008, who didn't really know any better but weren't in a position to change course. Anyone afterwards knew damn well that they had to think carefully about their major, about getting a job, and about vocational schooling as an option.
Anyone before then should have remembered the echo from the dot-com implosion and recession, and/or was old enough to know that their degree in Religious Studies and Art History was not going to pay the bills. I remember telling people that, but they continued anyway. That was a *conscious* choice for them that they had plenty of time to reconsider their huge incoming student loan debt -- and with a decent job market, they had options.
Or, more specifically, obstruction of justice.
If you refuse to give a legible fingerprint when your fingerprints are being taken at the jail, for example by trying to move your fingers back and forth so the ink smudges, the bailiff or other police official will just hold you down until they can get a valid read. You have no right to prevent that from being done.
If you do the same thing, but in a way that surreptitiously destroys the evidence on the phone in the process (knowledge of the switch, and your awareness that you're using the wrong finger to do it), you're destroying evidence. That's not just contempt, that's obstruction of justice .. and a nice federal jail sentence.
It wears out ridiculously fast. I've had to find the "sweet spot" on an untold number of 3.5mm jacks. You either have to twist the plug to the perfect angle or apply pressure on the correct side, or else you get no sound or severely diminished sound.
This has been my experience as well. Not every jack fails - but it still happens more often than for any other jack type that I commonly use.
This is cray. I've used tons of audio jacks over the years (being both an audio person and a mobile DJ). I've worn our FAR more micro-USB ports (and more expensively to replace) than I've ever had problems with headphone jacks. And the two times I've had problems with headphones, a tiny amount of solder fixed it.
More to the point -- simpler is better.
Something has seriously gone off the rails when an ad/image designer either a) cares directly, and/or b) has insight into device power management and usage.
You're doing it wrong.
How about devices, firmware writers, OS writers, library writers, and application writers (browsers in this case) focus on the power management and we keep remote content creators out of the loop. If you need end-to-end awareness of things like this, it's a sign that your different layers are unable to make sane design choices or write sane platform specifications internally. It's also a sign that you don't care about leaking data far and wide to things that should have no need for that info. (cf. Uber and pricing changes when your battery is low.)
If there's ever been a story worthy of the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" slashdot tag, it's this.
Technological Solutionism didn't begin with oblivious Bay Area Millennials who never learned any history thinking that any problem can be solved if you just throw enough data, tech, money, cloud, systemd, Elon Musk, VC money, Obama, and Nate Silver's at it.
Unfortunately, that lack of awareness leads to the hubris in central planning, except that you've moved it from a technocratic paper pusher to a technocratic algorithm writer, an ethically oblivious data scientist, or -- scariest of all -- an app developer. That's how you get Giant Leaps Forward and jackboots.
Well, it’s a bit of an exaggeration to call it a failure.
Communism has killed far more people than all the 20th Century wars combined, while Western Capitalism has raised the standard of living. It was a failure. That's why the capitalists won and will continue to win. The ONLY thing that will change this will be a fundamental rewrite of the laws of economics and/or human nature. Humans don't change, and the laws of economics won't change globally until a replicator is invented along with locally-free energy and is actually distributed worldwide. *Then* we can talk about TNG-style post-scarcity. Anyone who thinks we're living in a post-scarcity economy in 2016 is confusing their parents' house for the real world.
Look, there's nothing wrong with being a rational actor on both sides here. The original contract is over and every single person on one of these plans is month to month. A partnership or business relationship not otherwise restricted will only exist for as long as it makes sense for both sides.
You idiots abusing a shared resource have pushed Verizon into accepting a PR hit in exchange for not having to deal with your douchebaggery any more. So be it. This is why we can't have nice things.
Anyone who's ever worked at an ISP knows about the predictions network engineers have to make when deciding how oversubscribed one network segment will be, and what kind of utilization can be allowed. These are consumer plans, not business SLA hookups, and if they can save themselves headaches by kicking the %.00001 off their network, it's fine by them. If you want to pay $500/month for 100GB of transfer, find a local ISP who can metro-link you an Ethernet hand-off and be done with it. Wireless networks were not meant for that level of individual usage.
This might have been a troll, but it's a valid point. In the US, any phone that is turned on needs to be able to make an emergency 911 call, regardless of network access / bill payment / identity / SIM card / etc.
For a phone already turned on, you can do this from the lock screen. On my new LG G5 with PIN required on boot, you can do this from the PIN/boot entry screen.
It does raise the valid question: Is this a further check prior to the ... boot loader? PIN boot phase? If so, how much of the phone is and isn't running prior to the remainder of the OS load and what is or isn't "secure"... The meta has to bottom out somewhere, and unless the phone is actually broken, regs might require at least the phone connection to work.
By FAR the easiest SIGINT on a subject in a first world country will be via telemetry they're sending from their smartphone and computers, either consciously, not-really-thinking-about-it consciously, or via a hack.
It's safe to say that Google and Apple (smartphones/browsers) and Facebook (link tracking that's not done via Ad Words) have more raw data collection ability than the NSA natively does. That makes it trivial to tap into that feed as needed... But that's because anything the government *can* do there, *IS* being done by the commercial entities as part of their data aggregation business.
As I remember, merely inserting the diskette would do absolutely nothing. You had to either run a program from the diskette, or forget to take it out of the drive when you (re)booted the machine in order to actually "catch" anything from it.
Autorun didn't come along until Windows 95.
Maybe they're thinking of the Mac's System software... There were several viruses on the Mac that could be spread just by insertion since the Finder (or System) would load the Desktop file on the disk insert event.
Slashdot used to be very pro-uber.
What happened? Is this the result of the new owners? Are people's opinions so easily swayed? Is this a case of not thinking it through originally?
Anyone who's been around here long enough remembers how we all felt about M$ back in the day, and the removal of shackles that Linux and OSS represented (both to that and to the traditional Unixes), and for a long time crowd-sourced [anything] was seen as an inherent good by analogy. Hell, it worked for everything else!
Fetishizing data collection (knowledge!) and rapidity (disruption!) over philosophic understanding is bad, but that's basically all of the larger tech industry right now, *especially* those to dumb/stupid/oblivious/young to know their history and who haven't taken enough critical thinking and theory of knowledge courses.
a) Uber intentionally breaks the law first and asks questions later
b) Uber's success comes from the breaking of the laws relating to taxicab services and employment
c) Uber's fucking evil. They spy on political enemies and journalists they don't like.
We tried unregulated taxicabs in America. We decided to regulate them because of external factors (strange people; crime; discrimination; pricing). If the taxi companies were deregulated as well, then I suppose they could fight fairly, but Uber's winning only because of that, and then abusing its IC workforce in the courts. They're everything that's wrong with the "gig economy" that millennials are convincing themselves is somehow a good.
... only that they didn't already have a content block like this up already. (I'm sure it was already against the click-through ToS, but that's basically meaningless anyway.) There's nothing unreasonable about this. It's a public place, it's a private service, etc. I seem to recall a case a while back about public libraries being OK with blocking this on community-standards grounds in some jurisdictions.
And seriously, if you need to go to McDonalds and configure a VPN to watch porn you should probably try to put that effort into improving your career prospects so you can afford an internet connection at home.
If I recall correctly, Consumer Reports was the same organization that demerited cars for having electric power windows because they said something to the effect that you'd be trapped in the event your car sank in a body of water.
Actually that does happen on occasion. It's usually not blamed on the electric windows unless someone else managed to survive and can say what happened, but it factors into it. Do you carry a glass-break device (hammer or whatever) with easy reach in the passenger compartment? If not, you're at risk with automatic locks on a way that someone with a manual override -- that is... a crank -- isn't.