Android Things is not customizable by third-parties. All Android Things devices use an OS image direct from Google, and Google centrally distributes updates to all Android Things devices
In other words, Google will ship an always-online device that has a microphone, over which the user has no control, in exchange for $150.
Along with Echo, HomePod and other surveillance devices, I just can't wrap my head around the idea that some people want to be enslaved so bad they're ready to shell out money for it.
It's a perfect example of where technology would be best applied, except that the application is completely let down by the state of the technology
Please do your homework and check out this clear technical explanation that summarizes why electronic voting -- even with the best infrastructure, coders and intentions -- is inherently inferior to paper ballots. Sorry.
It's not because technology allows it that it must be the preferred option (electronic voting is a poster child of the idea). I don't mind if my neighbor prefers being tracked with his credit card and iPay and Air Miles, but at this point, global customer insouciance seems to pave the road to forced global surveillance in every aspect of our lives; we don't need this crap, wake up people, thank you very much.
We need more computers and code in cars! And make all systems internet-connected so that they become as safe as other IoT devices. For sure programmers working for the transport industry are way more competent than in any other field, and source code unavailability ensures security.
Come on now, we all know stalking happens from the inside all the time, and FB shares their data with three-letter agencies that do the same.
Facebook is just trying to do virtue signalling, by suggesting said stalking behavior is exceptional and will not be tolerated; they have had really bad press lately and they desperately need to counter-balance it.
Which pocket computer with WLAN and cellular voice and data communication capability do you recommend for use without proprietary binary blobs
There is none on the market. I wrote "when alternatives exist", I never meant that there were alternatives to all proprietary blobbed hardware, that'd be preposterous, as there's blobs in cars, televisions, IoT, etc.
Apple publishes enough information about I/O Kit to allow peripheral manufacturers to port drivers to macOS. Thus I would instead place blame on peripheral manufacturers
I think it can be stated that Linux has all needed information for anyone to write a driver, more so than Apple. Buying hardware that has no free driver is just helping the proprietary blob model.
without accelerated graphics, audio, WLAN, and suspend until you install blobs. Good luck building Debian or any other GNU/Linux distribution from source and installing it on an ASUS T100TA
If someone chooses to buy hardware that has no free drivers to run it, when alternatives do exist, who's to blame? Should we also blame Apple when a random USB gadget designed for Windows has no drivers for OS X?
Will there be hardware acceleration for the new codec in the Samsung Exynos chips or the Qualcomm Snapdragon chips?
The whole point of AV1 codec is to be an open format unencumbered by patents. So if they want to, they can implement it in hardware, just like they can already implement Vorbis or PNG encoding/decoding in hardware, without owing anything to anyone.
Before you kids' webmail made e-mail cumbersome and inefficient to deal with, there was a thing called local mail clients. Managing a large amount of mail messages in a decent client is much more efficient than doing click-clicks in a forum. Maybe you should ask Linus why the kernel mailing list is not moved to a forum yet.
Cloudflare must die. It's the ultimate cross-site tracking MITM — worse than ads and pixel beacons because there's no way around it — and its CAPTCHA mechanism makes Tor browsing a PITA.
[...] will be phased out on July 1. The credit enabled public transit users to apply 15 per cent of their eligible expenses on monthly passes
In other words, public transport cost for regular users just increased 17,6% (1/(1-0.15)). Thanks for helping the planet and the poorest layers of society at the same time, Justin. You're as despicable as your father.
It's the obvious primary key that can directly link to most of your interesting accounts online (all of those online services who in the name of "security" force you to reveal your phone number) and offline (credit cards, public services accounts); remember the real name policy that Google+ had? so pointless now thanks to "security".
Monolithic executables should make a comeback. Storage and memory are cheap
Saving memory and storage is only one of the reasons shared libraries constitute a better idea. Say they find a vulnerability in one shared library; after an update of said library, all programs using it are automagically updated. You don't have to update each and every program (and wait for each and every program's maintainer to fix the vulnerability and release a new version).
Perhaps this leak might be a sufficient wake up call to leave that ultimate MITM service. What you gain by using it is protection against troubles you wish you had. No, your crappy cooking wordpress won't be DDoSed. Yes, I can buy a bank-grade vault and hire guards to protect my whole life's savings of $197, but you'd think I'm crazy if I did, wouldn't you?
Data can be inserted into GE and retrieved at high speed since it's kept in-memory and only written back to disk as needed.
If your database system does not avoid disk I/O when it can, and does not leverage memory allocated to it, it's a pretty shitty database system, be it graph-based, relational, key-value or schema-less. This is not a feature, it's just basic design that's found in all database systems you already use every day.
Once again, a proprietary software company is caught red-handed violating users' privacy. Sigh.
Why are we still trusting those companies who engage in software abuse, mistreating our digital lives? What will it take before mass resignation of such companies' employees because they're fed up from being part of immoral spying schemes?
Oh, and don't give me that food on the table bogus argument; Red Hat makes hundreds of millions profit a year with free software, and most web developers who mix and match free software make more than a decent pay. There's ways to make a living in computing without sacrificing human dignity.
What shocks me the most: the public reaction to the news. I'm from Quebec, saw the local news and everyone from mayors to prime ministers had their word about the incident.
It's mostly about the police's power and journalist's source protection. Almost no one mentions how the whole operation was sanctioned by law, and that *anyone* can easily be spied on the same way (that seems to involve way more than cell tower math), and almost nobody seems to question the fact that most phones are manufactured in a way where the consumer has no reasonable way to opt-out of surveillance.
Am I late to the party or is this dystopia something humanity wilfully agreed on?
Oh, right, convenience of a portable candy crush game trumps everything, don't make me think.
I'm pretty sure Canada "ratified" the Kyoto protocol as well. Did we meet those targets? I'm thinking no.
True. Kyoto was ratified by the Liberal party then in power; they were defeated in 2006 by Conservatives (led by fossil fuel enthusiast Stephen Harper) who ruled over Canada until 2015. Liberals are back in the driver seat and odds are they will stay in control until at least 2023, as the two other significant parties (Conservatives, NDP) are now running internal leadership races without a single strong candidate on either side.
That does not mean the Liberals will follow through, of course, but at least for now Canada is not ruled by a bunch of anti-science jerks.
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From the moment Berners-Lee endorsed DRM in HTML, it was clear to me that he had lost all relevance forever.
Wow, invoking two of the Four Horsemen Of The Infocalypse to justify eroding privacy:
This is a new low, even for Facebook.
In other words, Google will ship an always-online device that has a microphone, over which the user has no control, in exchange for $150.
Along with Echo, HomePod and other surveillance devices, I just can't wrap my head around the idea that some people want to be enslaved so bad they're ready to shell out money for it.
Please do your homework and check out this clear technical explanation that summarizes why electronic voting -- even with the best infrastructure, coders and intentions -- is inherently inferior to paper ballots. Sorry.
It's not because technology allows it that it must be the preferred option (electronic voting is a poster child of the idea). I don't mind if my neighbor prefers being tracked with his credit card and iPay and Air Miles, but at this point, global customer insouciance seems to pave the road to forced global surveillance in every aspect of our lives; we don't need this crap, wake up people, thank you very much.
We need more computers and code in cars! And make all systems internet-connected so that they become as safe as other IoT devices. For sure programmers working for the transport industry are way more competent than in any other field, and source code unavailability ensures security.
Come on now, we all know stalking happens from the inside all the time, and FB shares their data with three-letter agencies that do the same.
Facebook is just trying to do virtue signalling, by suggesting said stalking behavior is exceptional and will not be tolerated; they have had really bad press lately and they desperately need to counter-balance it.
The FSF has a list of computers they recommend. There's also a list of hardware which needs no binary blob.
There is none on the market. I wrote "when alternatives exist", I never meant that there were alternatives to all proprietary blobbed hardware, that'd be preposterous, as there's blobs in cars, televisions, IoT, etc.
I think it can be stated that Linux has all needed information for anyone to write a driver, more so than Apple. Buying hardware that has no free driver is just helping the proprietary blob model.
If someone chooses to buy hardware that has no free drivers to run it, when alternatives do exist, who's to blame? Should we also blame Apple when a random USB gadget designed for Windows has no drivers for OS X?
The whole point of AV1 codec is to be an open format unencumbered by patents. So if they want to, they can implement it in hardware, just like they can already implement Vorbis or PNG encoding/decoding in hardware, without owing anything to anyone.
Before you kids' webmail made e-mail cumbersome and inefficient to deal with, there was a thing called local mail clients. Managing a large amount of mail messages in a decent client is much more efficient than doing click-clicks in a forum. Maybe you should ask Linus why the kernel mailing list is not moved to a forum yet.
Now get off my lawn.
Cloudflare must die. It's the ultimate cross-site tracking MITM — worse than ads and pixel beacons because there's no way around it — and its CAPTCHA mechanism makes Tor browsing a PITA.
The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful.
The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible.
Survivorship Bias; You Are Not So Smart
Feeling entitled because...?
In other words, public transport cost for regular users just increased 17,6% (1/(1-0.15)). Thanks for helping the planet and the poorest layers of society at the same time, Justin. You're as despicable as your father.
It's the obvious primary key that can directly link to most of your interesting accounts online (all of those online services who in the name of "security" force you to reveal your phone number) and offline (credit cards, public services accounts); remember the real name policy that Google+ had? so pointless now thanks to "security".
Saving memory and storage is only one of the reasons shared libraries constitute a better idea. Say they find a vulnerability in one shared library; after an update of said library, all programs using it are automagically updated. You don't have to update each and every program (and wait for each and every program's maintainer to fix the vulnerability and release a new version).
Perhaps this leak might be a sufficient wake up call to leave that ultimate MITM service. What you gain by using it is protection against troubles you wish you had. No, your crappy cooking wordpress won't be DDoSed. Yes, I can buy a bank-grade vault and hire guards to protect my whole life's savings of $197, but you'd think I'm crazy if I did, wouldn't you?
If your database system does not avoid disk I/O when it can, and does not leverage memory allocated to it, it's a pretty shitty database system, be it graph-based, relational, key-value or schema-less. This is not a feature, it's just basic design that's found in all database systems you already use every day.
That makes sense in general, not only in cars; I'm looking at you, router vendors.
Once again, a proprietary software company is caught red-handed violating users' privacy. Sigh.
Why are we still trusting those companies who engage in software abuse, mistreating our digital lives? What will it take before mass resignation of such companies' employees because they're fed up from being part of immoral spying schemes?
Oh, and don't give me that food on the table bogus argument; Red Hat makes hundreds of millions profit a year with free software, and most web developers who mix and match free software make more than a decent pay. There's ways to make a living in computing without sacrificing human dignity.
What shocks me the most: the public reaction to the news. I'm from Quebec, saw the local news and everyone from mayors to prime ministers had their word about the incident.
It's mostly about the police's power and journalist's source protection. Almost no one mentions how the whole operation was sanctioned by law, and that *anyone* can easily be spied on the same way (that seems to involve way more than cell tower math), and almost nobody seems to question the fact that most phones are manufactured in a way where the consumer has no reasonable way to opt-out of surveillance.
Am I late to the party or is this dystopia something humanity wilfully agreed on?
Oh, right, convenience of a portable candy crush game trumps everything, don't make me think.
And helps Google track users one more way. Please be a good hacker and serve fonts from your own domain. Thank you.
True. Kyoto was ratified by the Liberal party then in power; they were defeated in 2006 by Conservatives (led by fossil fuel enthusiast Stephen Harper) who ruled over Canada until 2015. Liberals are back in the driver seat and odds are they will stay in control until at least 2023, as the two other significant parties (Conservatives, NDP) are now running internal leadership races without a single strong candidate on either side.
That does not mean the Liberals will follow through, of course, but at least for now Canada is not ruled by a bunch of anti-science jerks.
USA would be second, with 17.89% while India shows 4.10%, according to a UN climate change document referenced in the above Wikipedia link.