They could have taken an alternative approach, where purchases are 'added to your library'. At which point you stop downloading a new copy from the store, but are syncing your file from your cloud storage. I think this is the approach Amazon takes, at least for eBooks.
Why would the inventor of the self driving car allow Uber to use their cars? The inventor of the self driving car will be running the profitable fleet and taxi services themselves and taking the profit themselves. And the software licensing can easily block competitors, unless they pay a premium to use the commercial version. The cost will be what the market can bare, which will be a lot. This is why lots of people are trying to invent the self driving car, rather than waiting for someone else to do it and license it to them.
Its a bad price if you listen to music less than the average subscriber, or listen to cheaper music. Half the subscribers are subsidizing the other half.
Or do unlimited subscriptions cause some weird economics and it ends up cheaper for a large majority of subscribers?
First installs chromium, fully contained, as/snap/bin/chromium. Second removes its access to your home directory. Third the camera. Stick a copy of ~/.mozilla in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla to get everything migrated. Enjoy your sandboxed chromium.
To break the constitution, it needs to be your data. It isn't your data. It is someone else's data about you. The only thing protecting you is your right to privacy, which you don't seem to have any more. Well, I imagine 'public figures' will be exempt 'in the interest of national security' despite the fact that their browsing history will be more valuable than the bulk data on the masses.
The theory is to monetize the data they collect from operating the messaging platform. While this data has value, this article is pointing out that it is crap data and has little value. Maybe even at '$10 a share', it is enough to operate or maybe it will go under.
I was kind of hoping that WhatsApp's $1 a year business model would work out, but alas we seem to be stuck with the major messaging platforms all operated by people who only see the value in spying on their users. Maybe one of the minor players with a different model will get noticed if enough of the major ones fail.
He is talking to the plural 'your'. A lot of PCs most certainly can be replaced by phones. A lot of PCs have already been replaced by phones for that matter.
I think that the driver moving away from the wheel while transport officials watched and not getting arrested is a pretty big deal. It might not be a technical hurdle they overcome, but is it a milestone on the legislative and psychological side. We have years worth of these 'publicity stunts' that need to happen before the general public lets autonomous vehicles on the road without supervision.
Its going to be just like the aviation or space industry, where no politician wants to have their name associated with the headlines about the first fatality. A majority of politicians need to believe there is 0% chance of it affecting their re-election, which isn't going to happen so it needs to be buried in committees and red tape.
Yes, security holes in WordPress, Magento, Jetspeed, Exarid, AirOS get the malware onto the system. But the malware is for Linux, and the subject and summary valid.
This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of.
Not at all, they get pretty much a real list of millions of people along with some real data..
Is a list of millions of people worth 26 billion dollars?
You could hire an army to scrape a larger list in a short period of time for a fraction of that. Or just purchase a list from someone who already has similar data, such as Microsoft for example.
Maybe they have a plan to monetize it. I can't think of a way to do it without grossly devaluing LinkedIn, but then again I don't have 26 billion dollars.
I'm surprised how much hostility geeks have to emoji. We invented the damn things, with things like:-) and ASCII art and Shift-JIS art in Japan. Emoji characters just make them easier to type.
And they will remain in text because people want them there. I'm also surprised geeks hate the thought of them being embedded as a standard code point, rather than having to write parsers to convert the source:boat: syntax to whatever bespoke encoding they are using.
Having used the excellent self-destructing cookies plugin for Firefox for a while now, yes, this should be the default way it works. With trivial white listing for the sites you do want to remember you, which in practice turns out to be quite rare.
Well I hope that open source packages won't switch to the new snap system, as of course it adds duplication, and now many application providers have to update one of their libraries only because of some badlock vuln or something. Some app store owners try to counter this by threatening app owners to take down their apps if they don't update the libraries. But this only gets the biggest libraries and those with most light shined on them, the small library might never get updated.
Where the snap system shines at is closed source applications and open source applications which both get shipped outside of the distro's packaging system: if adopted by all distros, you can ship cross-distro binaries without having to bother about some distro's settings for their libraries.
The other part of snaps that I think *does* make it attractive for some open source software is that the application is installed and run in a container. This is great for those web browsers that more and more think of themselves as operating systems, and to a lesser extent many other applications. Being able to control the camera and mike from outside of the container, restrict it from writing to the parent containers filesystem at all except for ~/Downloads, block all incoming connections, restrict outgoing connections... At the moment, users place a huge amount of trust in people we don't know to write secure and non-malicious software and by easily putting this software in a sandbox we can lower that mandatory trust level somewhat.
I like having string encoding that explicitly tells me 'emoji of an old man walking his rhinoceros'. Its so much nicer to work with than having to write a custom parser for each source, like if I needed to parse github's:boat: syntax and worry about all the magic quoting rules. The world isn't going to go back so ASCII smilies. That:boat: has:bon-voyage:.
I'm not sure why people get so worked up about it? If you don't need them, you don't implement them. If you do need them, it makes things better.
Next up, how identical emoji in different cultures can lead to miscommunication. Or identical words for that matter.
It is normal insecurity. People want to rationalize and justify their decisions when they are in a minority. You will always going to get the Mint fan piping up in a pro-Ubuntu thread until the install base gets into the same league. You don't see the same thing from OSX fans now that you see >50% users at a non-Windows,non-Linux technical conference.
It may be valid according to the RFC, but programmers quickly learn to ignore that due to all the systems that don't cope with the RFC. It is better to not accept it at input time than deal with all the problems you are going to get later from relays, proxies, all your own software, all the 3rd party software you need to integrate with, and all the mail clients that need to be used to contact you. It gets tiring, so we say alphanumeric only and stop being a smart alec. We have enough trouble dealing with IDNA and new TLDs without dealing with 'the programmer formerly known as Anon-Admin'.
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They could have taken an alternative approach, where purchases are 'added to your library'. At which point you stop downloading a new copy from the store, but are syncing your file from your cloud storage. I think this is the approach Amazon takes, at least for eBooks.
Why would the inventor of the self driving car allow Uber to use their cars? The inventor of the self driving car will be running the profitable fleet and taxi services themselves and taking the profit themselves. And the software licensing can easily block competitors, unless they pay a premium to use the commercial version. The cost will be what the market can bare, which will be a lot. This is why lots of people are trying to invent the self driving car, rather than waiting for someone else to do it and license it to them.
Are you saying HIBP is not GDPR compliant, and refuses to remove your personally identifiable information from its database?
Its a bad price if you listen to music less than the average subscriber, or listen to cheaper music. Half the subscribers are subsidizing the other half.
Or do unlimited subscriptions cause some weird economics and it ends up cheaper for a large majority of subscribers?
Under Ubuntu 16.04++, and other systems supporting contained snaps:
sudo snap install chromium
sudo snap disconnect chromium:home core:home
sudo snap disconnect chromium:camera core:camera
First installs chromium, fully contained, as /snap/bin/chromium. Second removes its access to your home directory. Third the camera. Stick a copy of ~/.mozilla in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla to get everything migrated. Enjoy your sandboxed chromium.
To break the constitution, it needs to be your data. It isn't your data. It is someone else's data about you. The only thing protecting you is your right to privacy, which you don't seem to have any more. Well, I imagine 'public figures' will be exempt 'in the interest of national security' despite the fact that their browsing history will be more valuable than the bulk data on the masses.
The theory is to monetize the data they collect from operating the messaging platform. While this data has value, this article is pointing out that it is crap data and has little value. Maybe even at '$10 a share', it is enough to operate or maybe it will go under.
I was kind of hoping that WhatsApp's $1 a year business model would work out, but alas we seem to be stuck with the major messaging platforms all operated by people who only see the value in spying on their users. Maybe one of the minor players with a different model will get noticed if enough of the major ones fail.
Next step? There are already Ubuntu Certified Public Clouds:
http://partners.ubuntu.com/pro... (marketing)
http://partners.ubuntu.com/fin... (full list)
tldr; pretty much every public cloud, and all the major ones.
Maybe it will benefit both the US and China?
Maybe benefiting China is a good thing?
You made a lot of assumptions reading between the lines of a single line post.
He is talking to the plural 'your'. A lot of PCs most certainly can be replaced by phones. A lot of PCs have already been replaced by phones for that matter.
I think that the driver moving away from the wheel while transport officials watched and not getting arrested is a pretty big deal. It might not be a technical hurdle they overcome, but is it a milestone on the legislative and psychological side. We have years worth of these 'publicity stunts' that need to happen before the general public lets autonomous vehicles on the road without supervision.
Its going to be just like the aviation or space industry, where no politician wants to have their name associated with the headlines about the first fatality. A majority of politicians need to believe there is 0% chance of it affecting their re-election, which isn't going to happen so it needs to be buried in committees and red tape.
Its happening now, although people are focused on containers rather than VMs (since you need really high density).
Snappy from Canonical (http://snapcraft.io) is a packaging format that does this today, supporting several Linux flavours and the embedded space.
Yes, security holes in WordPress, Magento, Jetspeed, Exarid, AirOS get the malware onto the system. But the malware is for Linux, and the subject and summary valid.
This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of.
Not at all, they get pretty much a real list of millions of people along with some real data..
Is a list of millions of people worth 26 billion dollars?
You could hire an army to scrape a larger list in a short period of time for a fraction of that. Or just purchase a list from someone who already has similar data, such as Microsoft for example.
Maybe they have a plan to monetize it. I can't think of a way to do it without grossly devaluing LinkedIn, but then again I don't have 26 billion dollars.
Its well established that El Nino events are closely tied to the US election cycle. This hot air sequestration technology sounds like our only hope.
In English we started soon after the invention of removable type, with characters like &, @, % and $
I'm surprised how much hostility geeks have to emoji. We invented the damn things, with things like :-) and ASCII art and Shift-JIS art in Japan. Emoji characters just make them easier to type.
And they will remain in text because people want them there. I'm also surprised geeks hate the thought of them being embedded as a standard code point, rather than having to write parsers to convert the source :boat: syntax to whatever bespoke encoding they are using.
Having used the excellent self-destructing cookies plugin for Firefox for a while now, yes, this should be the default way it works. With trivial white listing for the sites you do want to remember you, which in practice turns out to be quite rare.
Even if it just scratches the paint, someone has to pay for the repairs.
Well I hope that open source packages won't switch to the new snap system, as of course it adds duplication, and now many application providers have to update one of their libraries only because of some badlock vuln or something. Some app store owners try to counter this by threatening app owners to take down their apps if they don't update the libraries. But this only gets the biggest libraries and those with most light shined on them, the small library might never get updated.
Where the snap system shines at is closed source applications and open source applications which both get shipped outside of the distro's packaging system: if adopted by all distros, you can ship cross-distro binaries without having to bother about some distro's settings for their libraries.
The other part of snaps that I think *does* make it attractive for some open source software is that the application is installed and run in a container. This is great for those web browsers that more and more think of themselves as operating systems, and to a lesser extent many other applications. Being able to control the camera and mike from outside of the container, restrict it from writing to the parent containers filesystem at all except for ~/Downloads, block all incoming connections, restrict outgoing connections... At the moment, users place a huge amount of trust in people we don't know to write secure and non-malicious software and by easily putting this software in a sandbox we can lower that mandatory trust level somewhat.
I like having string encoding that explicitly tells me 'emoji of an old man walking his rhinoceros'. Its so much nicer to work with than having to write a custom parser for each source, like if I needed to parse github's :boat: syntax and worry about all the magic quoting rules. The world isn't going to go back so ASCII smilies. That :boat: has :bon-voyage:.
I'm not sure why people get so worked up about it? If you don't need them, you don't implement them. If you do need them, it makes things better.
Next up, how identical emoji in different cultures can lead to miscommunication. Or identical words for that matter.
There is also nothing stopping you having multiple ?buntu-desktop's installed. You can select with DE when you login.
It is normal insecurity. People want to rationalize and justify their decisions when they are in a minority. You will always going to get the Mint fan piping up in a pro-Ubuntu thread until the install base gets into the same league. You don't see the same thing from OSX fans now that you see >50% users at a non-Windows,non-Linux technical conference.
Its just another 'chilling effect' variant really.
It may be valid according to the RFC, but programmers quickly learn to ignore that due to all the systems that don't cope with the RFC. It is better to not accept it at input time than deal with all the problems you are going to get later from relays, proxies, all your own software, all the 3rd party software you need to integrate with, and all the mail clients that need to be used to contact you. It gets tiring, so we say alphanumeric only and stop being a smart alec. We have enough trouble dealing with IDNA and new TLDs without dealing with 'the programmer formerly known as Anon-Admin'.