This summary makes things sound worse than they are. From my interpretation of tfa it sounds like Canadians are just going to start getting a lot more warning letters. Considering that the max penalty is 5 grand, and the copyright holder has to take you to court to get it, I'd imagine these letters are going to relatively benign.
Technicians are going to be needed to service the machines. Anyone who grew up in an area influenced by the car industry will tell you that. We all started training to be technicians and millwrights years ago.
I grew up near a national park that had lost most of its large animal populations except for deer. The deer, having no natural predators, would routinely breed out of control and cause all sorts of problems for the forest. To fix this issue, about once a decade the government would hand out extra deer tags and let the local hunters sort things out for them.
As a child I remember recognizing the parallels of this to the global human population. I remember trying to explain to people that the world was of a fixed size for us, just like the forest was for the deer. It amazed me then, just as much as it does now, that nobody wanted to talk about it.
You're being obtuse just for the sake of arguing. Anyone who knows even 1 traffic cop can tell you that they have, what they call, "honey holes" or "fishing holes". These are areas usually at the bottom of a hill, coming onto or off of a highway, or in places where its unclear if you've transitioned to or from a highway or normal city street.
There is no magical perfect science figuring out speed limits. They are always either 30, 50, 80, 100, or 110km/h in my area. There are many areas of my city where 50 is too slow, but 80 is probably too fast... so the limit defaults to 50. And traffic police will routinely sit at these "fishing holes" and pull over anyone missing that mark by a mere 10km/h (the lowest deviation they can write a ticket for). They also always seem to be set up at the end of the month too. What a coincidence.
16gb? One round of Windows updates should take care of that pretty quick.
I've used many x86 tablets and every one leaves something to be desired. They're usually slow, don't have enough storage, or have too small of a display. The metro interface is a dead idea so I end up primarily trying to fumble around in Desktop mode with a touch screen wishing I could just easily plug in a mouse and keyboard to the stupid thing. Microsoft has tried to solve this problem by creating the Surface 3. It has high end specs, and is probably plenty fast, but the thing costs $1500. When you can get similar power in a laptop for less than half the price, why buy that thing?
Tablets are stupid. They have both phone and laptop envy. If we're looking for the future, I would guess that it's with consolidating devices into something that can still fit in your pocket. An x86 phone that could dock into a workstation setup, or a tablet shell would be very useful. Microsoft is poised to do this but they need to get over the idea of unifying a touch interface with the mouse and keyboard first. People are smart enough that they can handle two different interfaces.
These marketing types are all chicken little's. Any engineer/technician could have told you this was going to happen. Tablets are not the new laptops. They are consumption devices used for a specific purpose. Everyone who wanted a tablet, now has one, so expect sales to slow. Expect content creators to keep buying laptops and desktops. And expect anyone with half a brain to keep rejecting touch unified interfaces, the "cloud", and software as a service.
I agree with you. I'm not religious, and I don't care one way or another about this "tweet". But it's obvious to anyone not trying to be purposefully obtuse, that the substance of his statement was in what he didn't say, rather than what he said. I can see how it would upset some over-sensitive people. All of you pretending like you didn't see that, and don't know where this is coming from,are either socially retarded, or just wasting your own time pretending.
The tradition of celebrating Jesus' birthday on December 25th most likely came during the Roman Empire's transition to Christianity. It likely served as a stand-in replacement for one of the most popular pagan celebrations of the time: Saturnalia. The birthday of the figure known as Jesus is never explicitly defined in the Bible, although clues such as the sheppards tending their fields at night, and jesus being born outside, point to a date perhaps sometime in the spring. The date of December 25th was defined outside of the scriptures by the Roman Catholic establishment.
I wanted to murder these kids on Christmas just as much as anyone else, but allow me to play devil's advocate.
Considering this was mostly likely done with a botnet, and was probably something like a NTP applification DDoS, it's a bit more complicated than your generic script kiddie DDoS carried out by 4chan. Just because a DDoS is relatively easy to do with the right tools, doesn't make it any less of a hack. You could easily argue the best hacking method available is social engineering. Which of course is a method that requires very little technical knowledge and tools.
I wouldn't be giving these cowards my money even if I was able to (I'm Canadian). This entire story has been shameful. When did the USA stop being the land of the brave? Everyone knows your weakness now. Scare you a little bit and you'll do whatever anyone wants, the least of which being handing over all your freedoms to the government.
Why all members of the tor network aren't forced to be exit nodes. Your traffic could then be sent to the public internet through a random exit node for every single tcp connection you make.
back to the apprentice/mentor relationship. I'm not sure why we all buy into the falsehood that specifically targeted for-profit post secondary school is required for any position above minimum wage. Regardless, a system like this will at least help prospects in a new field learn real skills based on real experience while also not starting off their lives smothered in debt.
I would say it partly is apple's model. Perhaps not in software services, but certainly in electronic distribution of software. The amount of money they make in their "app store" and iTunes has to be monumental. What they lack in data-mining software services they certainly make up for in convincing everyone that their products are "cool", "just work", and are worth spending an extra 30% on.
Do you have a current favorite for encrypted online chat?
Telegram. It's open source, uses end to end encryption, and, unlike whatsapp, supports multiple connected clients at a time - including desktop clients for all platforms.
Of course you'll be hard pressed to find anyone on telegram expect my wife and I. Kids don't care about security, or source code.
You must also work in an area of the country that is either really ahead, or really behind. I'm Sr sysadmin for a medium sized company and I haven't encountered a single person - outside of a geologist or engineer that needs real power - who prefers a desktop to a laptop in many years.
The phone doesn't necessarily have to be x86 based, but it needs to be designed with business in mind. You'd be hard pressed to argue that either your Lumina, or iPhone is designed with business in mind. They are designed with the primary concern of taking pictures and uploading them to facebook.
In the last 5 years, all work being done has been focused on the consumer. Phones now have pedometers, FM radio chips, and IR transmitters, but we're no closer to having real business support. This extends way beyond reading your emails and spreadsheets. We need functionality like directory integration. Let me extend the policies of my directory with mobile-based ADMX policies. Give me a smart VPN service that's also configurable through policy. How about built in device management instead of having to rely on third party "crapps" that use some cloud storage bullshit and require me to pay/user/month?
There's SO much work to be done with regards to mobile computing in business environments. All the sales people and psuedo-technical bloggers keep telling us that mobile is the future. If it is, at some point, someone's going to have to pay attention to business.
Intel needs to get behind an organized effort to bring us a business-grade mobile device. That's the only low hanging fruit left. Take the following excerpt I pulled from an article:
Let's rewind to 2007. RIM owns the mobile space for business, while consumer devices are primarily "dumb phones". In comes Apple, flush with iPod money, and looking for the next evolution of it's highly profitable device. The solution is simple: why carry an iPod and a phone? Thus, the iPhone is born.
In a single generation the iPhone brings massive innovation to the market. The device is targeted at Apple's primary demographic: the consumer, but the features are so beyond what is currently available that this type of smartphone doesn't take long to become a favorite in the business commnuity as well.
The large touch screen destroys the conventional track ball/pad, allowing the user to display more text, and use multi-touch to navigate more efficiently. The full webkit browser completely destroys the WAP-based dinosaurs giving the user a desktop grade browser at their finger tips. The user can carry all forms of media with them and display it at their whim. And, finally, and most importantly, the design of the operating system is centered around a robust API which doesn't take long to bloom into a wealth of independent applications that let the user do things they never before thought possible.
The response at RIM is unforunately short-sighted. RIM sees the device as a "toy". It sees it as a consumer-grade flash in the pan that will eventually collapse in the face of the established security and familiarity of their Enterprise Server platform, and BBM. RIM does opt to borrow some of the innovations - like the touch screen - and implement it their own, poorly advised ways but, ultimately, things at RIM continue as usual.
Now let's fast forward to 2013. The market has spoken. Blackberry market share is down to single digits and the company needs to do something quick to turn things around. They've been working for years on something that is supposed to change our lives and we're finally going to get to see it. What they unveil is astonishing: a consumer-targeted device.
The playing field in consumer-grade devices is now beyond saturated. We've had Google, Apple, and even Microsoft all battling each-other for the last 5 years. Innovation year-over-year is staggering. Why blackberry decided to try to compete in this market is baffling. What's worse, is they released an inferior product, on their own independent platform, that - of course - is going to gather no developer support in an already saturated market.
So here we are, 2014 and - still - no business-grade device in the mobile market. We have a dizzying amount of consumer-grade choice, but nothing properly designed with business in mind. In response I would like to say the following to the entire tech community involved in mobile device development:
We're here. We have money. We have a lot more money than all these teenage kids. Please, please, I want to spend it. Someone give me a business-grade mobile phone and tablet. Important things to me are: checking my email, security, centralized device management, and integration with existing business technologies. Reward: see Microsoft's stock price in the 90's.
Also, hopefully MS has realized - like Google does - that the future isn't in software licensing. The future is in electronic distribution, and software services that collect information. It's not a great future, but it has been created by a population that is willing to trade their privacy for free stuff. It is what it is. I wouldn't be surprised to see them start to give Windows away in the future.
What confuses me is that android has the exact same walled garden approach by default. You have to manually allow "untrusted source" installs. Apple, of course, doesn't allow this because then they wont get their 30% cut (it has nothing to do with security - sorry folks).
If you want to do this on ios, you jailbreak , and make your device more functional, but arguably less secure if you don't know what you're doing, or you're some sort of chimp.
Talking about security used to mean how free from vulnerabilities and exploits a platform was. It would seem things have devolved into a conversation about which platform more readily allows the town dullard to shoot himself in the foot. It's a political conversation indeed.
I didn't check if anyone recommended this yet, but pbs made a documentary "Tesla - The Master of Lightening". I thought it was amazing, and it's available on US Netflix.
Arch, good guess. You're obviously using something debian based, probably Ubuntu. I haven't used Ubuntu in some years, but I don't remember them actively supporting the use of a ports-like system. It would certainly be possible in Ubuntu, but without community involvement, rather pointless.
Give Arch a try in a VM. I've yet to encounter a piece of software that hasn't had the source converted to a make package by someone in the AUR. Using the AUR is as simple as downloading the tarball, extracting, running makepkg, resolving dependencies, then pacman -S .
Oh, and don't use the base arch installer unless you have a lot of time on your hands. Go with something like ArchBang.
Living without [a google account] is certainly possible. I've been doing it for years. I would agree that "app" developers seem obsessed with publishing their offerings through a single medium, that takes 30%, and requires their users to buy into the google/apple ecosystem. However, I blame this on the typical "app" developer being a mindless dullard, addicted to the status quo. The entire IT spectrum has been infested with these types of late. It's been frustrating.
While the Android core operating system is free, the Android branding and "Google Apps" are not. In order to use either of these on your version of Android you need a license from an authorized testing facility that ensures the GApps suite functions properly. This is Google's one catch to providing the world with a free mobile operating system, and I think that's probably fair.
Regardless, I think many people wouldn't be happy if cm automatically included GApps, since the lack of that proprietary spyware is the main reason to use it.
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This summary makes things sound worse than they are. From my interpretation of tfa it sounds like Canadians are just going to start getting a lot more warning letters. Considering that the max penalty is 5 grand, and the copyright holder has to take you to court to get it, I'd imagine these letters are going to relatively benign.
Technicians are going to be needed to service the machines. Anyone who grew up in an area influenced by the car industry will tell you that. We all started training to be technicians and millwrights years ago.
I grew up near a national park that had lost most of its large animal populations except for deer. The deer, having no natural predators, would routinely breed out of control and cause all sorts of problems for the forest. To fix this issue, about once a decade the government would hand out extra deer tags and let the local hunters sort things out for them.
As a child I remember recognizing the parallels of this to the global human population. I remember trying to explain to people that the world was of a fixed size for us, just like the forest was for the deer. It amazed me then, just as much as it does now, that nobody wanted to talk about it.
You're being obtuse just for the sake of arguing. Anyone who knows even 1 traffic cop can tell you that they have, what they call, "honey holes" or "fishing holes". These are areas usually at the bottom of a hill, coming onto or off of a highway, or in places where its unclear if you've transitioned to or from a highway or normal city street.
There is no magical perfect science figuring out speed limits. They are always either 30, 50, 80, 100, or 110km/h in my area. There are many areas of my city where 50 is too slow, but 80 is probably too fast... so the limit defaults to 50. And traffic police will routinely sit at these "fishing holes" and pull over anyone missing that mark by a mere 10km/h (the lowest deviation they can write a ticket for). They also always seem to be set up at the end of the month too. What a coincidence.
You could probably only buy them on Google Play through your GMail account. And the car would only work if you kept Google Play Services installed.
16gb? One round of Windows updates should take care of that pretty quick.
I've used many x86 tablets and every one leaves something to be desired. They're usually slow, don't have enough storage, or have too small of a display. The metro interface is a dead idea so I end up primarily trying to fumble around in Desktop mode with a touch screen wishing I could just easily plug in a mouse and keyboard to the stupid thing. Microsoft has tried to solve this problem by creating the Surface 3. It has high end specs, and is probably plenty fast, but the thing costs $1500. When you can get similar power in a laptop for less than half the price, why buy that thing?
Tablets are stupid. They have both phone and laptop envy. If we're looking for the future, I would guess that it's with consolidating devices into something that can still fit in your pocket. An x86 phone that could dock into a workstation setup, or a tablet shell would be very useful. Microsoft is poised to do this but they need to get over the idea of unifying a touch interface with the mouse and keyboard first. People are smart enough that they can handle two different interfaces.
These marketing types are all chicken little's. Any engineer/technician could have told you this was going to happen. Tablets are not the new laptops. They are consumption devices used for a specific purpose. Everyone who wanted a tablet, now has one, so expect sales to slow. Expect content creators to keep buying laptops and desktops. And expect anyone with half a brain to keep rejecting touch unified interfaces, the "cloud", and software as a service.
I agree with you. I'm not religious, and I don't care one way or another about this "tweet". But it's obvious to anyone not trying to be purposefully obtuse, that the substance of his statement was in what he didn't say, rather than what he said. I can see how it would upset some over-sensitive people. All of you pretending like you didn't see that, and don't know where this is coming from,are either socially retarded, or just wasting your own time pretending.
To further expand:
The tradition of celebrating Jesus' birthday on December 25th most likely came during the Roman Empire's transition to Christianity. It likely served as a stand-in replacement for one of the most popular pagan celebrations of the time: Saturnalia. The birthday of the figure known as Jesus is never explicitly defined in the Bible, although clues such as the sheppards tending their fields at night, and jesus being born outside, point to a date perhaps sometime in the spring. The date of December 25th was defined outside of the scriptures by the Roman Catholic establishment.
I wanted to murder these kids on Christmas just as much as anyone else, but allow me to play devil's advocate.
Considering this was mostly likely done with a botnet, and was probably something like a NTP applification DDoS, it's a bit more complicated than your generic script kiddie DDoS carried out by 4chan. Just because a DDoS is relatively easy to do with the right tools, doesn't make it any less of a hack. You could easily argue the best hacking method available is social engineering. Which of course is a method that requires very little technical knowledge and tools.
I wouldn't be giving these cowards my money even if I was able to (I'm Canadian). This entire story has been shameful. When did the USA stop being the land of the brave? Everyone knows your weakness now. Scare you a little bit and you'll do whatever anyone wants, the least of which being handing over all your freedoms to the government.
Why all members of the tor network aren't forced to be exit nodes. Your traffic could then be sent to the public internet through a random exit node for every single tcp connection you make.
back to the apprentice/mentor relationship. I'm not sure why we all buy into the falsehood that specifically targeted for-profit post secondary school is required for any position above minimum wage. Regardless, a system like this will at least help prospects in a new field learn real skills based on real experience while also not starting off their lives smothered in debt.
who needs to compute anything anymore...
Is there an app for that?
I would say it partly is apple's model. Perhaps not in software services, but certainly in electronic distribution of software. The amount of money they make in their "app store" and iTunes has to be monumental. What they lack in data-mining software services they certainly make up for in convincing everyone that their products are "cool", "just work", and are worth spending an extra 30% on.
Do you have a current favorite for encrypted online chat?
Telegram. It's open source, uses end to end encryption, and, unlike whatsapp, supports multiple connected clients at a time - including desktop clients for all platforms.
Of course you'll be hard pressed to find anyone on telegram expect my wife and I. Kids don't care about security, or source code.
I'm not trying to be a troll or flame here, so please don't take it like that. But, you may be comparing AMD processors and Intel in the same price range. Because the highest passmark bench results for laptops certainly belong to the 4th generation Intel mobile processors.
You must also work in an area of the country that is either really ahead, or really behind. I'm Sr sysadmin for a medium sized company and I haven't encountered a single person - outside of a geologist or engineer that needs real power - who prefers a desktop to a laptop in many years.
The phone doesn't necessarily have to be x86 based, but it needs to be designed with business in mind. You'd be hard pressed to argue that either your Lumina, or iPhone is designed with business in mind. They are designed with the primary concern of taking pictures and uploading them to facebook.
/user/month?
In the last 5 years, all work being done has been focused on the consumer. Phones now have pedometers, FM radio chips, and IR transmitters, but we're no closer to having real business support. This extends way beyond reading your emails and spreadsheets. We need functionality like directory integration. Let me extend the policies of my directory with mobile-based ADMX policies. Give me a smart VPN service that's also configurable through policy. How about built in device management instead of having to rely on third party "crapps" that use some cloud storage bullshit and require me to pay
There's SO much work to be done with regards to mobile computing in business environments. All the sales people and psuedo-technical bloggers keep telling us that mobile is the future. If it is, at some point, someone's going to have to pay attention to business.
Intel needs to get behind an organized effort to bring us a business-grade mobile device. That's the only low hanging fruit left. Take the following excerpt I pulled from an article:
Let's rewind to 2007. RIM owns the mobile space for business, while consumer devices are primarily "dumb phones". In comes Apple, flush with iPod money, and looking for the next evolution of it's highly profitable device. The solution is simple: why carry an iPod and a phone? Thus, the iPhone is born.
In a single generation the iPhone brings massive innovation to the market. The device is targeted at Apple's primary demographic: the consumer, but the features are so beyond what is currently available that this type of smartphone doesn't take long to become a favorite in the business commnuity as well.
The large touch screen destroys the conventional track ball/pad, allowing the user to display more text, and use multi-touch to navigate more efficiently. The full webkit browser completely destroys the WAP-based dinosaurs giving the user a desktop grade browser at their finger tips. The user can carry all forms of media with them and display it at their whim. And, finally, and most importantly, the design of the operating system is centered around a robust API which doesn't take long to bloom into a wealth of independent applications that let the user do things they never before thought possible.
The response at RIM is unforunately short-sighted. RIM sees the device as a "toy". It sees it as a consumer-grade flash in the pan that will eventually collapse in the face of the established security and familiarity of their Enterprise Server platform, and BBM. RIM does opt to borrow some of the innovations - like the touch screen - and implement it their own, poorly advised ways but, ultimately, things at RIM continue as usual.
Now let's fast forward to 2013. The market has spoken. Blackberry market share is down to single digits and the company needs to do something quick to turn things around. They've been working for years on something that is supposed to change our lives and we're finally going to get to see it. What they unveil is astonishing: a consumer-targeted device.
The playing field in consumer-grade devices is now beyond saturated. We've had Google, Apple, and even Microsoft all battling each-other for the last 5 years. Innovation year-over-year is staggering. Why blackberry decided to try to compete in this market is baffling. What's worse, is they released an inferior product, on their own independent platform, that - of course - is going to gather no developer support in an already saturated market.
So here we are, 2014 and - still - no business-grade device in the mobile market. We have a dizzying amount of consumer-grade choice, but nothing properly designed with business in mind. In response I would like to say the following to the entire tech community involved in mobile device development:
We're here. We have money. We have a lot more money than all these teenage kids. Please, please, I want to spend it. Someone give me a business-grade mobile phone and tablet. Important things to me are: checking my email, security, centralized device management, and integration with existing business technologies. Reward: see Microsoft's stock price in the 90's.
Also, hopefully MS has realized - like Google does - that the future isn't in software licensing. The future is in electronic distribution, and software services that collect information. It's not a great future, but it has been created by a population that is willing to trade their privacy for free stuff. It is what it is. I wouldn't be surprised to see them start to give Windows away in the future.
What confuses me is that android has the exact same walled garden approach by default. You have to manually allow "untrusted source" installs. Apple, of course, doesn't allow this because then they wont get their 30% cut (it has nothing to do with security - sorry folks).
If you want to do this on ios, you jailbreak , and make your device more functional, but arguably less secure if you don't know what you're doing, or you're some sort of chimp.
Talking about security used to mean how free from vulnerabilities and exploits a platform was. It would seem things have devolved into a conversation about which platform more readily allows the town dullard to shoot himself in the foot. It's a political conversation indeed.
I didn't check if anyone recommended this yet, but pbs made a documentary "Tesla - The Master of Lightening". I thought it was amazing, and it's available on US Netflix.
Arch, good guess. You're obviously using something debian based, probably Ubuntu. I haven't used Ubuntu in some years, but I don't remember them actively supporting the use of a ports-like system. It would certainly be possible in Ubuntu, but without community involvement, rather pointless.
Give Arch a try in a VM. I've yet to encounter a piece of software that hasn't had the source converted to a make package by someone in the AUR. Using the AUR is as simple as downloading the tarball, extracting, running makepkg, resolving dependencies, then pacman -S .
Oh, and don't use the base arch installer unless you have a lot of time on your hands. Go with something like ArchBang.
Living without [a google account] is certainly possible. I've been doing it for years. I would agree that "app" developers seem obsessed with publishing their offerings through a single medium, that takes 30%, and requires their users to buy into the google/apple ecosystem. However, I blame this on the typical "app" developer being a mindless dullard, addicted to the status quo. The entire IT spectrum has been infested with these types of late. It's been frustrating.
While the Android core operating system is free, the Android branding and "Google Apps" are not. In order to use either of these on your version of Android you need a license from an authorized testing facility that ensures the GApps suite functions properly. This is Google's one catch to providing the world with a free mobile operating system, and I think that's probably fair.
Regardless, I think many people wouldn't be happy if cm automatically included GApps, since the lack of that proprietary spyware is the main reason to use it.