All too often it looks like websites are designed by the stupidest member of the team. For example, the password policies that many sites impose range from preposterous to downright ignorant.
Is biometrics a dead end for authentication/identification purposes?
Yes. Leaving aside the fact that, up till now, biometrics-based authentication can be bypassed by woefully low-tech approaches, the fact they can't be revoked when compromised kills them instantly, in my view. But, they make for cool-looking gadgets, which many will pay to enjoy.
It seem that they are competing to find out who is able to add more junk to their devices. The fingerprint sensor was fairly ridiculous, but the face identification takes ridiculousness to a higher level.
The bottom line is still the same: you have to pay for tens of channels in order to watch the three or four that you are interested in. Allow me to get those, just those, at a reasonable price (i.e. far less than what you charge me for those tens of channels that I am not at all interested in) and I might be tempted. Otherwise, forget it.
Xubuntu user here. Not sure what I'm missing out on by using XFCE. Does what I need.
Exactly! The self-appointed UI "experts" behind Gnome, KDE and Unity seem to be convinced that there is something horribly incomplete, nay, wrong, about such more traditional desktop environments, which warrants the complete redesign that those three monstrosities entail.
If you harbor a number of superstitions, and you are willing to pay top dollar for their sake - you are thoroughly stupid. But, by all means, pay through the nose.
It has been shown, time and again, that biometrics can be beat (and are beat) by relatively low-tech approaches - sometimes very low-tech approaches. And, to add insult to injury, once compromised, biometrics cannot easily be revoked, if at all. Use biometrics at your own peril.
You wish. And hopefully, you won't get - the exacerbated nationalism and just plain xenophobia latent in Brexit and the Catalonian attempts to secede are in the spirit of the times that kept Europe embroiled in more or less continuing internecine wars for hundred of years. Get rid of the EU and prepare yourself to enjoy such times again - with modern weaponry.
These "voice assistants" are little more than toys. They can indeed do a few useful things but, for the most part, nothing that one could at a keyboard or at a switch just as quickly and efficiently. Try to get them something really useful that would take more than a modest effort from you, and they start spinning their wheels badly. Maybe one day they will become real assistants, with a minimum of intelligence; today, they are good for party games, and little more.
Start offering services a la carte, at a reasonable price, and many of us might consider signing up again. Persist in your ridiculous extortions tactics, whereby to watch a couple of channels that people are interested in they have to pay for dozens that only carry junk, and expect the rate of defections to increase. Your call.
The common destiny of all battery-related breakthroughs revealed in this forum over the years has always been the same: complete oblivion after a few months. Is this one going to be any different?
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Wouldn't want anybody to figure out space is fake. Earth is flat.
And run by lizards. Or the stupid Illuminati. Or Illuminati lizards.
Pretty much in line with HP's protracted death.
The only desirable future for war is its complete extinction - not this. We still have SO much to learn as a species.
All too often it looks like websites are designed by the stupidest member of the team. For example, the password policies that many sites impose range from preposterous to downright ignorant.
We'll see how they tackle the toilet problem - a technology that they have yet to master here on earth.
The free market, and ONLY the free market, should decide who wins.
Sure. Let's get rid of the Sherman Act, and let ONLY the free market decide. You are naive, and ignorant of history.
I've found KDE bloated and complex, gnome is a better fit for most users, while LXQt is great for users wanting a traditional WIMP GUI.
The only thing more obnoxious than KDE is Gnome. To each his own.
Am I the only one that thinks this is VERY creepy?
Is biometrics a dead end for authentication/identification purposes?
Yes. Leaving aside the fact that, up till now, biometrics-based authentication can be bypassed by woefully low-tech approaches, the fact they can't be revoked when compromised kills them instantly, in my view. But, they make for cool-looking gadgets, which many will pay to enjoy.
It seem that they are competing to find out who is able to add more junk to their devices. The fingerprint sensor was fairly ridiculous, but the face identification takes ridiculousness to a higher level.
MS canceling a stupid product of theirs. Who would have thunk.
For companies (tech or otherwise) NEVER, EVER would lie to customers, would they?
The bottom line is still the same: you have to pay for tens of channels in order to watch the three or four that you are interested in. Allow me to get those, just those, at a reasonable price (i.e. far less than what you charge me for those tens of channels that I am not at all interested in) and I might be tempted. Otherwise, forget it.
Xubuntu user here. Not sure what I'm missing out on by using XFCE. Does what I need.
Exactly! The self-appointed UI "experts" behind Gnome, KDE and Unity seem to be convinced that there is something horribly incomplete, nay, wrong, about such more traditional desktop environments, which warrants the complete redesign that those three monstrosities entail.
If you harbor a number of superstitions, and you are willing to pay top dollar for their sake - you are thoroughly stupid. But, by all means, pay through the nose.
Their CEO says so - it must therefore be true, right?
It has been shown, time and again, that biometrics can be beat (and are beat) by relatively low-tech approaches - sometimes very low-tech approaches. And, to add insult to injury, once compromised, biometrics cannot easily be revoked, if at all. Use biometrics at your own peril.
Among the iSheep. Among the rest of us, utter indifference.
Not yet. The VR technology will have to improve significantly before that is sellable.
You wish. And hopefully, you won't get - the exacerbated nationalism and just plain xenophobia latent in Brexit and the Catalonian attempts to secede are in the spirit of the times that kept Europe embroiled in more or less continuing internecine wars for hundred of years. Get rid of the EU and prepare yourself to enjoy such times again - with modern weaponry.
No one I know doesnâ(TM)t have a subscription to both
No one I know has a subscription to both. My anecdotal evidence, for what (very little) it is worth.
These "voice assistants" are little more than toys. They can indeed do a few useful things but, for the most part, nothing that one could at a keyboard or at a switch just as quickly and efficiently. Try to get them something really useful that would take more than a modest effort from you, and they start spinning their wheels badly. Maybe one day they will become real assistants, with a minimum of intelligence; today, they are good for party games, and little more.
Start offering services a la carte, at a reasonable price, and many of us might consider signing up again. Persist in your ridiculous extortions tactics, whereby to watch a couple of channels that people are interested in they have to pay for dozens that only carry junk, and expect the rate of defections to increase. Your call.
The common destiny of all battery-related breakthroughs revealed in this forum over the years has always been the same: complete oblivion after a few months. Is this one going to be any different?
After all, you would have to subhuman to want to work for MS.