I get flamed every time I call Gnome for being the shitty system it is.
Perhaps the problem is that you're using such absolute terms as "shitty".
I find Gnome incredibly irritating and problematic, but I also recognize that there are people who find it useful and enjoyable -- so I can't, in all honesty, call it "shitty".
So the percentage of market served by Microsoft in dollars in year X would be the same as that served by IBM in year X-n and you are going to define the market and n in advance ?
I'm not talking about revenue. I'm talking about impact on the industry.
Moore discovered that OxygenOS was sending regular telemetry to OnePlus' servers. This is no issue of concern, as almost all applications these days collect telemetry data for market analytics and to identify and debug application flaws.
I beg to differ. Collecting telemetry without notifying users or allowing a way to disable it is a matter of large concern to a lot of people.
Any safe manufacturer can be compelled to open a safe on demand of a warrant. Also banks can be required to open safety deposit boxes on demand of a warrant.
That's right. And that is no different under the current law with encryption. The thing is, no warrant can force anyone to do something that's not in their power to do.
What the government is asking for is the legal ability to force Apple and others to drill the lock and open the box the anyways.
No, what the government is trying to get is the ability to force safe manufacturers to create a "master key" that unlocks the safes.
The government can "drill the lock" on encryption right now (breaking the encryption). It's just really, really hard.
Don't most commercial safes actually have backdoors in their designs for law enforcement?
Many safes (not all) do contain a special place where you can drill without setting off the anti-drilling countermeasures, but that's not intended for law enforcement purposes (not to say that it wouldn't be used for that, of course). The intention is to provide some means of access should the owner forget the combo and/or lose the key.
Oculus Go will ship with a handheld controller and work with the same apps available on Samsung’s Gear VR headset. However, it won’t have any positional tracking, which means that high-end VR apps available on the Oculus Rift headset won’t run on the device.
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The FCC doesn't really think that counts as competition, they just think that Americans are stupid enough to believe that.
The FCC wants (among other things) to eliminate the possibility of competition.
that would just about be enough of a platform by itself.
Not to me, since it doesn't address any of the things on the wish list I stated.
People have to work really hard to create something like that
Tell me about it!
How is it fraud?
"Fraud" is when someone intentionally deceives another in order to gain something (usually, but not necessarily, money).
In this case, I don't think that they intentionally deceived anybody, and they aren't just taking the money and running.
No, KDE is not like Windows 10.
I get flamed every time I call Gnome for being the shitty system it is.
Perhaps the problem is that you're using such absolute terms as "shitty".
I find Gnome incredibly irritating and problematic, but I also recognize that there are people who find it useful and enjoyable -- so I can't, in all honesty, call it "shitty".
It's just not for me.
At this point, I'd be happy if we got even a single party that was effective, cared about the nation, wasn't bought off, and wasn't batshit crazy.
So the percentage of market served by Microsoft in dollars in year X would be the same as that served by IBM in year X-n and you are going to define the market and n in advance ?
I'm not talking about revenue. I'm talking about impact on the industry.
I applaud your sentiment. If you are ever really in that position, though, you'll be going to jail.
Are you ready and willing to do that?
I don't rely on third party services for crypto, preferring to do it myself.
For the longest time, I thought that just made me weird. Now, it's starting to look like it makes me prescient.
The government can't stop my use of strong crypto, they can only stop third party services from using it.
Almost everyone who tries it is amazed and loves it (my mom seemed somehow completely unimpressed).
I found it to be pretty cool, but I have no urge to own one.
If I make the battery non-removable, I can keep the radio on without you knowing it, so I can send packets of who-knows-what whenever I like.
Here are some easy solutions to that problem: https://www.amazon.com/faraday...
I don't care about water resistance, but I'd buy the phone you describe in a heartbeat.
I wouldn't care if it didn't have the best display, and I wouldn't even care whether or not it had a camera.
It often seems like every new model of phone I see entering the market is less desirable than the one before it.
Doesn't mind, doesn't know, or just doesn't think they can do anything about it so tolerate it
With my kids, it's that latter thing.
None of them are OK with it, but equally as much, none of them think there's anything they can do about it.
Windows 10 telemetry... anonymized... oh, the horrors!
Android (Linux) telemetry... not anonymized... it's okay, we'll look the other way
Not even close. I object to telemetry you can't disable equally on all platforms. Android or Linux doesn't get a pass on this.
From TFS:
Moore discovered that OxygenOS was sending regular telemetry to OnePlus' servers. This is no issue of concern, as almost all applications these days collect telemetry data for market analytics and to identify and debug application flaws.
I beg to differ. Collecting telemetry without notifying users or allowing a way to disable it is a matter of large concern to a lot of people.
That it's quite common means absolutely nothing.
Any safe manufacturer can be compelled to open a safe on demand of a warrant. Also banks can be required to open safety deposit boxes on demand of a warrant.
That's right. And that is no different under the current law with encryption. The thing is, no warrant can force anyone to do something that's not in their power to do.
What the government is asking for is the legal ability to force Apple and others to drill the lock and open the box the anyways.
No, what the government is trying to get is the ability to force safe manufacturers to create a "master key" that unlocks the safes.
The government can "drill the lock" on encryption right now (breaking the encryption). It's just really, really hard.
would surely be using unbreakable encryption.
Since this a bit of a pet peeve of mine, I can't help but comment on this bit:
Outside of one-time pads, there is no unbreakable encryption. There's just encryption that's very hard to break.
A few lives lost every year due to "terrists" are a small price to pay for freedom.
Agreed.
Although I put it a little differently: I'd rather live in a free but dangerous world than in an unfree but safe world.
(Not that I really think that's the choice)
Agreed, but I'd add a second caveat to that: the law enforcement agency does not get to keep any portion of the forfeited property or proceeds.
Don't most commercial safes actually have backdoors in their designs for law enforcement?
Many safes (not all) do contain a special place where you can drill without setting off the anti-drilling countermeasures, but that's not intended for law enforcement purposes (not to say that it wouldn't be used for that, of course). The intention is to provide some means of access should the owner forget the combo and/or lose the key.
From TFA:
Oculus Go will ship with a handheld controller and work with the same apps available on Samsung’s Gear VR headset. However, it won’t have any positional tracking, which means that high-end VR apps available on the Oculus Rift headset won’t run on the device.
It would be fine with me if Real Names were optional
Unless Facebook has become a lot more intrusive than they were, real names are totally optional. What's not allowed are names that don't sound real.
They completed the task of destroying Cyanogenmod and are looking for what to destroy next.
I know, I was just going along with their public statements for the sake of argument.