If you did you would know that Richard_at_work is completely correct.
Obese people face significantly more, and significantly more dangerous, complications, regardless of the surgury.
Ditto with smokers. At an absolute minimum, smokers face SIGNIFICANTLY more pain after surgery. A nonsmoker who would be given, say, tylenol-3, a nonsmoker in the same condition would need opioids so they arn't in agony.
And these are all things that the surgeon needs to take into account. Not just the surgeon, but the other surgical staff and the aftercare staff. If the complications are severe enough, the surgeon DOES need to be pulled back into the loop to deal with the issue.
Considering that Samsung can barely get updates out for their devices as it is, how do they have the bandwidth to put out linux distros? The last Samsung device I owned was an S3, and based on my experience with it I will never own another Samsung device again. Trusting Samsung to support their devices is like the frog trusting the scorpion on it's back not to sting him.
I didn't miss the point. The problem is that they use lots of loaded language to point the finger at OSS, implying that the issue doesn't exist for closed source tools. If OSS tools are slipping through the cracks for no other reason than that they were free, then someone really dropped the ball on their responsibilities. But the same thing could just as easily occur with a commercial tool if licensing wasn't very strictly monitored. That's really all OSS software is. Software for which the licensing hasn't been properly monitored.
Any given project should always have (or at least easily obtain) a complete inventory of the tools used, regardless of whether they were closed or not.
Thanks for the warning. It allows me to set aside time in advance of the inevitable machine reimaging I have to do because Microsoft destroys our few Windows 10 machines again.
Considering that there was a post a short while ago about how Microsoft got pwned half a decade ago and never make it public, putting everyone at risk? How is Equifax's refusal to patch their software in any way relevant to the fact that Struts is OSS? How many of these same companies were asked if they had closed source compliance teams?
The whole article smells like so much bullshit I'm having to lean away from my computer.
Either get fucked with the hardware, or get fucked with the software. At least with Apple, you only get fucked once, up front. Microsoft will never stop causing you pain. You will live with the ever present fear that the next unblockable update will trash your machine.
Because "Dongle" has a negative connotation of inconvenience, hassle, and dubious benefit. And that's basically what you have today with the dime and quartering morass of dongles people have to deal with now. Seems entirely fitting, IMO.
Everyone automatically thinks "newer is automatically better", but it isn't.
There are so many new frameworks and whatnot that you can't kick a rock without exposing a new one from underneath. And those frameworks half about the same lifetime as the insects in my analogy. People are wringing their hands at banks, etc, because they're running out of COBOL developers. But what do we have now? Entire frameworks, languages and services, develop a bunch of hype, only to be abandoned after a few months or years. So now anything based on said frameworks and languages need to either be rewritten, or you need to pay significantly more money trying to find someone still willing to support said thing.
And I'm not even talking fly by night OSS projects, although there are plenty of those. The likes of Microsoft and Google are doing the same thing with entire product offerings. The more new services come and go, the more you realize that you ultimately have to rely on yourself if you want a functioning long term project or service.
Lets see, they've got almost all the major ports one would need but missing ethernet and an external video port. Can the USB-C connection support two simultaneous video signals so that I can plug in two external monitors (with the relevant dongles)?
Lets be clear. It's not about the age of the CPU or the RAM, although that's obviously a factor. The biggest reason anyone would want to leave Apple is because of bullshit games they're playing with their hardware. Soldered unupgradable ram and storage is unacceptable. USB-C/TB3 only in a world that has no intention of going exclusively USB-C within the next decade is unacceptable. A keyboard that is an ergonomic nightmare is unacceptable.
But Microsoft is playing their own bullshit games, and in many ways what Microsoft is doing is FAR worse. On OSX I don't worry that Apple is siphoning data and files without my permission. I'm not worried that from one day to the next, my computer will become a very expensive brick cause Apple forced an update without my consent and that update bollocksed up my machine. The surface 2 could have a quad-xeon with 1TB of RAM and a 100GBbaseT network connection to a cray supercomputer but that doesn't mean anything if every boot up feels like you're playing a game of roshambo.
At least with Apple, there are ways to work around most of the hardware limitations. It's just that those ways usually involve spending even more money. But with Microsoft? You have no choice at all that doesn't involve a huge and permanent investment in time and additional resources. Basically there's no way to make Windows 10 a reasonable alternative unless you have a full IT department behind you.
As an end user I really don't care where the problem is. If there's a serious vulnerability, I expect it to be fixed. I don't care if it's Google, the manufacturer, the carrier, or a leprechaun. At the end of the day, if I have an Apple device that is 5 years old, I *will* get an update. If my device is older than that, I may still get an update if the issue is serious enough.
In the android world, it's a crap shoot. Hell, it was only a couple of years ago or so when the big makers (Samsung, LG, I forget who else) finally agreed that they would provide 2 years worth of updates for their hardware. My last Samsung device was prior to that agreement, and updates were virtually unheard of. I ended up being forced to root my device and install cyanogenmod just so I could have a phone that didn't suck. That was when I threw my hands up in the air and went iOS. It is unacceptable that an end user should have to root their device and install a 3rd party OS on a practically new device, just to make it work acceptably.
This is the exact reason why professionals feel that Apple has abandoned them. If I wanted a FaceBook Air, then I would have bought one. But I actually do real work, and work requires connecting to networks, to presentation screens, etc.
Apple has forgotten that. They think that anything outside of directly working with the build in keyboard and screen is some kind of outlier use case and expect people to buy dongles for everything. HDMI and Ethernet will be around long after the current generations of MBPs have been recycled into fancy hubcaps. And just to add insult to injury, they even remove bits that made their laptops the iconic devices of envy that they were, like the magsafe power port.
I'm convinced that they really have no idea what they're doing anymore, so they're going with the default pointy-haired boss strategy of milking their existing customers for as long as they can get away with it.
This is one of the primary reasons I use iOS. Apple, for all their other negatives, DO support their products pretty well. I know I can expect a good 5 years of updates for my iThing.
I'm more pissed off at the entire industry as a whole, because we are literally in a situation where consumers have no choice other than to pick the vendor that pisses them off the least. There are literally NO good vendors. They either make crap products, don't support their products, use their products to steal your personal information, or some combination thereof.
As it stands, my choice is to buy Apple and bend over up front with my wallet held high, or buy Microsoft or Google and be bent over in perpetuity by Darth Vader, having my agreement altered and hoping (in vain) that the agreement won't be altered any further.
You're undoubtedly correct. The problem is that if there were some kind of API restriction, then someone who really wanted to could very easily fake being a real person using a browser. Especially if they had an vested interest in doing so, such as one country trying to undermine the elections of another. In such a case, adding API restrictions would be like trying to use a beach chair to stop a flash flood.
How can twitter know for sure that a tweet was created by a bot rather than a person? Short of requiring people to solve a captcha for every tweet, anyone who wants to hide the fact that a bot wrote the tweet can very easily do so.
IMO the only thing that can be done is education the twitterverse. People need to understand that no tweet can be considered trustworthy, in and of itself.
While not informing the user is definitely bad, I think having sites do crypto mining is actually a preferable option compared to everything else out there.
If I am doing something where every cpu cycle is critical, I probably wouldn't be browsing around anyway. If I'm browsing, that means I have cpu cycles to spare. The website operator makes some money from me so that they can stay operating, but unlike advertising, I don't have to worry about unknown entities surreptitiously tracking my movements and collecting personal data.
And if people *really* don't like it, as others have stated, they are already using noscript or similar tools.
If I could trust that the only thing a site is doing is running a crypto mining too, then I would have no problem leaving javascript running. Unfortunately thanks to all the idiocy of the various ad agencies and other malicious actors, I don't think it's possible for me to blindly trust *any* website ever again. Especially when the site is doing stuff without telling the user first.
The fact that this happens isn't new. Only the frequency. I would get really pissed when the phone rang cause then the person I talked to would stand up and walk to the land line to answer it "cause it might be important".
The telephone set the stage where it was acceptable to rudely cut a conversation off and walk away. Modern notifications are just an extension.
That certainly won't happen in the USA, where the only time that someone actually care about their neighbour is when both houses have been destroyed by a hurricane.
Remember, social assistance just makes people lazy and more likely to use drugs (or whatever bullshit politicians have invented recently).
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You've never actually had surgery, have you?
If you did you would know that Richard_at_work is completely correct.
Obese people face significantly more, and significantly more dangerous, complications, regardless of the surgury.
Ditto with smokers. At an absolute minimum, smokers face SIGNIFICANTLY more pain after surgery. A nonsmoker who would be given, say, tylenol-3, a nonsmoker in the same condition would need opioids so they arn't in agony.
And these are all things that the surgeon needs to take into account. Not just the surgeon, but the other surgical staff and the aftercare staff. If the complications are severe enough, the surgeon DOES need to be pulled back into the loop to deal with the issue.
Not true. The executives make a point of selling their stock before the news gets out.
How do you know this?
Considering that Samsung can barely get updates out for their devices as it is, how do they have the bandwidth to put out linux distros? The last Samsung device I owned was an S3, and based on my experience with it I will never own another Samsung device again. Trusting Samsung to support their devices is like the frog trusting the scorpion on it's back not to sting him.
I didn't miss the point. The problem is that they use lots of loaded language to point the finger at OSS, implying that the issue doesn't exist for closed source tools. If OSS tools are slipping through the cracks for no other reason than that they were free, then someone really dropped the ball on their responsibilities. But the same thing could just as easily occur with a commercial tool if licensing wasn't very strictly monitored. That's really all OSS software is. Software for which the licensing hasn't been properly monitored.
Any given project should always have (or at least easily obtain) a complete inventory of the tools used, regardless of whether they were closed or not.
Thanks for the warning. It allows me to set aside time in advance of the inevitable machine reimaging I have to do because Microsoft destroys our few Windows 10 machines again.
Considering that there was a post a short while ago about how Microsoft got pwned half a decade ago and never make it public, putting everyone at risk? How is Equifax's refusal to patch their software in any way relevant to the fact that Struts is OSS? How many of these same companies were asked if they had closed source compliance teams?
The whole article smells like so much bullshit I'm having to lean away from my computer.
It's not specifically listed as "2015 macbook pro". It's the lowest cost MBP option. At least it is on the canadian site.
Basically look for the MBP without the touchbar and other stuff.
Hopefully this link works:
https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/...
But for me it's listed as a 15", silver 2.2ghz i7 MBP with 16GB ram.
What do you get then? A windows machine?
Yeah, great choices here.
Either get fucked with the hardware, or get fucked with the software. At least with Apple, you only get fucked once, up front. Microsoft will never stop causing you pain. You will live with the ever present fear that the next unblockable update will trash your machine.
Because "Dongle" has a negative connotation of inconvenience, hassle, and dubious benefit. And that's basically what you have today with the dime and quartering morass of dongles people have to deal with now. Seems entirely fitting, IMO.
You can still buy the 2015 Macbook Pro.
That's been my go to unless someone specifically requests one of those idiotic 2016 models.
You kind of touched on it, but the big one:
Everyone automatically thinks "newer is automatically better", but it isn't.
There are so many new frameworks and whatnot that you can't kick a rock without exposing a new one from underneath. And those frameworks half about the same lifetime as the insects in my analogy. People are wringing their hands at banks, etc, because they're running out of COBOL developers. But what do we have now? Entire frameworks, languages and services, develop a bunch of hype, only to be abandoned after a few months or years. So now anything based on said frameworks and languages need to either be rewritten, or you need to pay significantly more money trying to find someone still willing to support said thing.
And I'm not even talking fly by night OSS projects, although there are plenty of those. The likes of Microsoft and Google are doing the same thing with entire product offerings. The more new services come and go, the more you realize that you ultimately have to rely on yourself if you want a functioning long term project or service.
Lets see, they've got almost all the major ports one would need but missing ethernet and an external video port. Can the USB-C connection support two simultaneous video signals so that I can plug in two external monitors (with the relevant dongles)?
Lets be clear. It's not about the age of the CPU or the RAM, although that's obviously a factor. The biggest reason anyone would want to leave Apple is because of bullshit games they're playing with their hardware. Soldered unupgradable ram and storage is unacceptable. USB-C/TB3 only in a world that has no intention of going exclusively USB-C within the next decade is unacceptable. A keyboard that is an ergonomic nightmare is unacceptable.
But Microsoft is playing their own bullshit games, and in many ways what Microsoft is doing is FAR worse. On OSX I don't worry that Apple is siphoning data and files without my permission. I'm not worried that from one day to the next, my computer will become a very expensive brick cause Apple forced an update without my consent and that update bollocksed up my machine. The surface 2 could have a quad-xeon with 1TB of RAM and a 100GBbaseT network connection to a cray supercomputer but that doesn't mean anything if every boot up feels like you're playing a game of roshambo.
At least with Apple, there are ways to work around most of the hardware limitations. It's just that those ways usually involve spending even more money. But with Microsoft? You have no choice at all that doesn't involve a huge and permanent investment in time and additional resources. Basically there's no way to make Windows 10 a reasonable alternative unless you have a full IT department behind you.
As an end user I really don't care where the problem is. If there's a serious vulnerability, I expect it to be fixed. I don't care if it's Google, the manufacturer, the carrier, or a leprechaun. At the end of the day, if I have an Apple device that is 5 years old, I *will* get an update. If my device is older than that, I may still get an update if the issue is serious enough.
In the android world, it's a crap shoot. Hell, it was only a couple of years ago or so when the big makers (Samsung, LG, I forget who else) finally agreed that they would provide 2 years worth of updates for their hardware. My last Samsung device was prior to that agreement, and updates were virtually unheard of. I ended up being forced to root my device and install cyanogenmod just so I could have a phone that didn't suck. That was when I threw my hands up in the air and went iOS. It is unacceptable that an end user should have to root their device and install a 3rd party OS on a practically new device, just to make it work acceptably.
This is the exact reason why professionals feel that Apple has abandoned them. If I wanted a FaceBook Air, then I would have bought one. But I actually do real work, and work requires connecting to networks, to presentation screens, etc.
Apple has forgotten that. They think that anything outside of directly working with the build in keyboard and screen is some kind of outlier use case and expect people to buy dongles for everything. HDMI and Ethernet will be around long after the current generations of MBPs have been recycled into fancy hubcaps. And just to add insult to injury, they even remove bits that made their laptops the iconic devices of envy that they were, like the magsafe power port.
I'm convinced that they really have no idea what they're doing anymore, so they're going with the default pointy-haired boss strategy of milking their existing customers for as long as they can get away with it.
Where did you read that they are killing off iTunes?
Honestly, that POS has had a good run but it desperately needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot before it gets any worse.
But what would they replace it with?
This is one of the primary reasons I use iOS. Apple, for all their other negatives, DO support their products pretty well. I know I can expect a good 5 years of updates for my iThing.
I'm more pissed off at the entire industry as a whole, because we are literally in a situation where consumers have no choice other than to pick the vendor that pisses them off the least. There are literally NO good vendors. They either make crap products, don't support their products, use their products to steal your personal information, or some combination thereof.
As it stands, my choice is to buy Apple and bend over up front with my wallet held high, or buy Microsoft or Google and be bent over in perpetuity by Darth Vader, having my agreement altered and hoping (in vain) that the agreement won't be altered any further.
You're undoubtedly correct. The problem is that if there were some kind of API restriction, then someone who really wanted to could very easily fake being a real person using a browser. Especially if they had an vested interest in doing so, such as one country trying to undermine the elections of another. In such a case, adding API restrictions would be like trying to use a beach chair to stop a flash flood.
Of course not. Standard US foreign policy has always been, "What's good for the goose ISN'T good for gander."
How can twitter know for sure that a tweet was created by a bot rather than a person? Short of requiring people to solve a captcha for every tweet, anyone who wants to hide the fact that a bot wrote the tweet can very easily do so.
IMO the only thing that can be done is education the twitterverse. People need to understand that no tweet can be considered trustworthy, in and of itself.
This is pretty remarkable... I had no idea that humans were able to communication with each other universally using code!
Let's see....
if (!this->stdout)
buffer_overflow()
else
aaaaahhhhhhh()
Everyone understood that, right?
While not informing the user is definitely bad, I think having sites do crypto mining is actually a preferable option compared to everything else out there.
If I am doing something where every cpu cycle is critical, I probably wouldn't be browsing around anyway. If I'm browsing, that means I have cpu cycles to spare. The website operator makes some money from me so that they can stay operating, but unlike advertising, I don't have to worry about unknown entities surreptitiously tracking my movements and collecting personal data.
And if people *really* don't like it, as others have stated, they are already using noscript or similar tools.
If I could trust that the only thing a site is doing is running a crypto mining too, then I would have no problem leaving javascript running. Unfortunately thanks to all the idiocy of the various ad agencies and other malicious actors, I don't think it's possible for me to blindly trust *any* website ever again. Especially when the site is doing stuff without telling the user first.
The fact that this happens isn't new. Only the frequency. I would get really pissed when the phone rang cause then the person I talked to would stand up and walk to the land line to answer it "cause it might be important".
The telephone set the stage where it was acceptable to rudely cut a conversation off and walk away. Modern notifications are just an extension.
That certainly won't happen in the USA, where the only time that someone actually care about their neighbour is when both houses have been destroyed by a hurricane.
Remember, social assistance just makes people lazy and more likely to use drugs (or whatever bullshit politicians have invented recently).
They could always work for Trump. I hear he loves the poorly educated.