"Since OnePlusLogKit is disabled by default, the attacker would require access to the victim's smartphone to enable it."
So what is the problem exactly?
> i don't give a crap whether the system boots twice as fast - reboots are years between, and in scheduled windows.
On my PC with an Asus mainboard the Sleep and Hibernate simply don't work (and never worked with multiple distros and kernels). I need to reboot each day therefore boot time is important for *me*.
The blog post also says this:
"(...) I understand that every OS has diagnostic functions, however these services break the promise that Apple makes with the consumer when they enter a backup password; that the data on their device will only come off the phone encrypted. The consumer is also not aware of these mechanisms, nor are they prompted in any way by the device. There is simply no way to justify the massive leak of data as a result of these services, and without any explicit consent by the user.
I don’t buy for a minute that these services are intended solely for diagnostics. The data they leak is of an extreme personal nature. There is no notification to the user. A real diagnostic tool would have been engineered to respect the user, prompt them like applications do for access to data, and respect backup encryption. Tell me, what is the point in promising the user encryption if there is a back door to bypass it?"
I probably shouldn't respond to your post but...
Martian gravity is so low that it's atmosphere just gradually escaped to space over millennia.
You might agree with me that having almost no atmosphere quite significantly alters a planetary climate.
Google thinks it does have a good reason for not wanting memory card slots on Android devices.
First thing - a card mounted via UMS (USB Mass Storage) to a PC isn't available to Android OS. Think of all apps (and their data) installed on the card and how would they behave if the card suddenly becomes invisible to Android...
Second thing - security issues. FAT filesystem on most SD card - no file ownership.
Third thing - One of the core Android principles is that you never need a file manager. With a memory card mounted a user can start to wonder where data (photo, music, file) ends up.
Exactly.
The difference between high and low solar activity is small (0.1% difference).
With solar radiation at the average level of ~1366 W/sqm the variation is a tiny 1.3 Watts...
The temperatures during the so-called Little Ice Age were lower than average by less than 1 degree Celsius.
Calling the period an "Ice Age" is incorrect.
What amuses me is the universal hatred for Lotus Notes across the board on/.
I'm currently using Lotus Notes 9 Social Edition at work and I have to say it's good.
I'm interested in how many of your bad experiences can be attributed to pre-8 version of Notes.
Versions 8+ are quite decent IMO.
> I don't know a single person that doesn't bike because they have to wear a helmet.
I can't find the original article as it was a few years ago but here's a summary:
"Researchers from Lancaster University questioned 1400 people over three years to see what deters us from cycling to work.
Arriving with ‘helmet hair’ stopped 27 per cent of women from cycling (...)" http://www.redonline.co.uk/news/in-the-news/helmet-hair-fear-stops-cyclists
Most of these textbooks will be printed out anyway so the "problem" of small e-book readers is a non-existing one.
The whole project is more about a free and open access to knowledge.
Electronic gadgets in Polish schools are not welcome - they turn children attention from what the teacher is saying.
OGM was an old and deprecated fork.
From the original article:
"OGM used the Ogg page structure (mostly correctly) though with private data for the VfW framework. The result was parseable as Ogg container but containing an ugly Windows-specific hack. We objected because it was not well formed and confused users who thought it was regular Ogg. It was a quick and dirty fork.
For the record, Tobias later joined Xiph along with his DirectShow filters[9] and deprecated OGM. OGM is no longer supported in our DirectShow offerings"
Special ferries? They're regular ferries you tit, it's the easiest way to get to England from certain places. And "all kinds of hell"? No one cares if they get an abortion, it's there own business.
Nah...
Unless you spill the toner (which is a very fine plastic particles mixed with pigments) it's practically harmless.
Airborne toner (and I mean a huge cloud) would be a serious issue as every other fine dust (particulate matter like PM10 and lower) would be.
To learn more I suggest you check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM10
Some time ago there was a study about potential Health & Safety risk associated with laser printers (photocopiers) as they emit some amount of ozone while working - but still it isn't an issue in a even average-ventilated office. If you have a dozen of those machines sitting in a tiny room with a window that never opens - that would be some area of concern - but still I wouldn't be panicking.
Regards
Epson is the only manufacturer that uses piezoelectric printheads in their inkjets. These in theory (when used properly with good quality ink) could last for a life time. That's why the printhead is not replacable (well... at least notuser-replaceable...).
HP, Canon etc. use bubble-jet technology in their inkjets which relies on heating the ink so it's being pushed onto the paper. This technology is much more prone to failure (heated/cooled ink clogs the jets, micro heaters in the priniting head just burn and die). That's why those printheads are replaceable - they are also a consumable.
Epson's solution is in theory superior.
You're misinformed.
IBM is already jumping. You can have a Linux workstation (Open Client for Linux - for Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, SLED) in IBM.
What's more the default office suite in IBM is Lotus Symphony now. MS Office is slowly going away.
BTW: I've never seen Windows Vista installed on any work PC in IBM.
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"Since OnePlusLogKit is disabled by default, the attacker would require access to the victim's smartphone to enable it." So what is the problem exactly?
No power related IT outages? What about this? http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
APNG. Supported out of the box in Firefox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is it any different/better than already existing PGF file format?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> i don't give a crap whether the system boots twice as fast - reboots are years between, and in scheduled windows.
On my PC with an Asus mainboard the Sleep and Hibernate simply don't work (and never worked with multiple distros and kernels). I need to reboot each day therefore boot time is important for *me*.
Just buy an Android phone without Google Apps pre-installed.
I have one (Huawei).
No Google Play Services (and any other Google Apps - Maps, Mail, etc.)
The blog post also says this:
"(...) I understand that every OS has diagnostic functions, however these services break the promise that Apple makes with the consumer when they enter a backup password; that the data on their device will only come off the phone encrypted. The consumer is also not aware of these mechanisms, nor are they prompted in any way by the device. There is simply no way to justify the massive leak of data as a result of these services, and without any explicit consent by the user.
I don’t buy for a minute that these services are intended solely for diagnostics. The data they leak is of an extreme personal nature. There is no notification to the user. A real diagnostic tool would have been engineered to respect the user, prompt them like applications do for access to data, and respect backup encryption. Tell me, what is the point in promising the user encryption if there is a back door to bypass it?"
I probably shouldn't respond to your post but...
Martian gravity is so low that it's atmosphere just gradually escaped to space over millennia.
You might agree with me that having almost no atmosphere quite significantly alters a planetary climate.
Check this article out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars
Google thinks it does have a good reason for not wanting memory card slots on Android devices.
First thing - a card mounted via UMS (USB Mass Storage) to a PC isn't available to Android OS. Think of all apps (and their data) installed on the card and how would they behave if the card suddenly becomes invisible to Android...
Second thing - security issues. FAT filesystem on most SD card - no file ownership.
Third thing - One of the core Android principles is that you never need a file manager. With a memory card mounted a user can start to wonder where data (photo, music, file) ends up.
I miss memory card slots on Android devices a lot but I can understand Google reasons for shunning them.
A nice (albeit long) article on the subject:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/11/18/impromptu-qa-session-with-android-engineer-dan-morrill-brings-to-light-reasons-behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/
Exactly.
The difference between high and low solar activity is small (0.1% difference).
With solar radiation at the average level of ~1366 W/sqm the variation is a tiny 1.3 Watts...
The temperatures during the so-called Little Ice Age were lower than average by less than 1 degree Celsius.
Calling the period an "Ice Age" is incorrect.
a candle in the wind [']
What amuses me is the universal hatred for Lotus Notes across the board on /.
I'm currently using Lotus Notes 9 Social Edition at work and I have to say it's good.
I'm interested in how many of your bad experiences can be attributed to pre-8 version of Notes.
Versions 8+ are quite decent IMO.
Sad news. It would be great if Disney open sourced the X-Wing and Tie Fighter code... :-O
Version 3.6, released on January 21, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox
> I don't know a single person that doesn't bike because they have to wear a helmet.
I can't find the original article as it was a few years ago but here's a summary:
"Researchers from Lancaster University questioned 1400 people over three years to see what deters us from cycling to work. Arriving with ‘helmet hair’ stopped 27 per cent of women from cycling (...)"
http://www.redonline.co.uk/news/in-the-news/helmet-hair-fear-stops-cyclists
Report link:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ext-rel/press/LU%20News%20web%20links/Understanding_Walking_%26_Cycling_Report.pdf
First World Problems...
Most of these textbooks will be printed out anyway so the "problem" of small e-book readers is a non-existing one. The whole project is more about a free and open access to knowledge. Electronic gadgets in Polish schools are not welcome - they turn children attention from what the teacher is saying.
If Google made such an extension for Firefox I'd consider the option of installing it. SInce I'm not using Chrome - I won't bother.
A small correction... It were actually Polish mathematicians - Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski who broke the Enigma code in 1932. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski Alan Turing based his Bombe design on the results of their work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe
or digiKam: http://www.digikam.org/ http://windows.kde.org/
OGM was an old and deprecated fork. From the original article:
"OGM used the Ogg page structure (mostly correctly) though with private data for the VfW framework. The result was parseable as Ogg container but containing an ugly Windows-specific hack. We objected because it was not well formed and confused users who thought it was regular Ogg. It was a quick and dirty fork. For the record, Tobias later joined Xiph along with his DirectShow filters[9] and deprecated OGM. OGM is no longer supported in our DirectShow offerings"
Special ferries? They're regular ferries you tit, it's the easiest way to get to England from certain places. And "all kinds of hell"? No one cares if they get an abortion, it's there own business.
No one cares? Sure... Just one case from top of my head: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/mhausnojmhey/ http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0501/abortion.html 1940s? Hell yeah - more often than you think. Unfortunately.. :(
Regards
Nah... Unless you spill the toner (which is a very fine plastic particles mixed with pigments) it's practically harmless. Airborne toner (and I mean a huge cloud) would be a serious issue as every other fine dust (particulate matter like PM10 and lower) would be. To learn more I suggest you check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM10 Some time ago there was a study about potential Health & Safety risk associated with laser printers (photocopiers) as they emit some amount of ozone while working - but still it isn't an issue in a even average-ventilated office. If you have a dozen of those machines sitting in a tiny room with a window that never opens - that would be some area of concern - but still I wouldn't be panicking. Regards
Epson is the only manufacturer that uses piezoelectric printheads in their inkjets. These in theory (when used properly with good quality ink) could last for a life time. That's why the printhead is not replacable (well... at least notuser-replaceable...). HP, Canon etc. use bubble-jet technology in their inkjets which relies on heating the ink so it's being pushed onto the paper. This technology is much more prone to failure (heated/cooled ink clogs the jets, micro heaters in the priniting head just burn and die). That's why those printheads are replaceable - they are also a consumable. Epson's solution is in theory superior.
You're misinformed. IBM is already jumping. You can have a Linux workstation (Open Client for Linux - for Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, SLED) in IBM. What's more the default office suite in IBM is Lotus Symphony now. MS Office is slowly going away. BTW: I've never seen Windows Vista installed on any work PC in IBM.