As long as there are a handful of common apps (FB, E-mail, SMS, e-book, podcast, etc) then there is no real reason for a bunch of other apps.
Unless you want it as a gaming device. In which case, go ahead and get an Android or Apple thing.
I have been perfectly happy with my Lumia for the last year and it does everything I need it to. As a matter of fact, I find the Windows Phone OS to be very responsive and polished. It looks and works great.
Motorola did basically this with the Atrix. There was a completely separate OS image on the phone that was used when it was docked.
You could have the x86 chip and OS image on the "dock" piece that plugs into the phone.
I have played with Continuum in the MS store and it looks pretty cool. A full blown Windows 10 OS on a full sized monitor with keyboard/mouse when the phone is docked and Windows 10 mobile on the device when it is not docked.
The Windows 10 aspect was very responsive and indistinguishable from my home Windows 10 computer.
The encryption keys are only useful to decrypt your hard drive once your computer has been turned off.
There are much easier ways for hackers to get your data which do not require decryption at all (because that has already been or is being done once the computer is booted).
This is a perfectly reasonable trade off in usability without a huge hit to security.
It is not a "TNO" (trust no one) solution. But if you need that, you probably should not be running anything but a Linux box where you have personally vetted all of the code.
"In essence, Facebook is claiming that since people quickly move on from Free Basics, it's less of a threat as a restricted replacement to the neutral Internet, and is more of a stepping stone to it."
So.... it's like pot (if you believe government claims about it being a gateway drug)
People are so used to data breaches these days that I am sure people figure "Well, they probably learned their lesson and won't make that mistake again..."
I mean, I still shop at Target despite being caught up in their cluster of a data breach...
I am guessing that it is the "one-dimensional" nature that holds the answer to your question.
How much does it cost to employ 1 engineer to operate (speed up, slow down, etc) 1 train?
How much would it cost to develop, test, implement and support a computer system for 1 train? More than it costs to employ 1 person for that train? There you go.
Now... self driving tractors on the highway... that would be huge...
Yeah, Cisco would be one of the last companies I would trust, simply *because* their equipment is so ubiquitous. I am sure that three letter agencies have long ago co-opted Cisco.
This whole code audit thing is so much PR BS. Why make a big deal out of it? Shouldn't it be a standard internal practice that would normally never make anyone bat an eye?
It's like saying, "Oh hey, hello world! We are now implementing a policy review of our employee coffee service! Aren't you all amazed and astounded by how much we care?!"
I think their rationale was that they didn't want to take responsibility for breaking compatibility for applications that rely on an older version of Java.
Since several parallel Java instances can be installed at the same time, why not just leave the old one there and know, for sure, that you won't break anything?
I am not defending them, I am just saying there *could* (at least at one time) be a valid reason for keeping old versions around.... Who knows, perhaps it was requested by a big client or perhaps was even a business need for themselves internally, so that's how they left it... it's a feature!
Yeah, it is for this reason that I created a powershell script for all of our computers which will, by default, remove all java versions from the computer at start up. It will check for group membership and install the approved version of java if that computer is in the group.
Well... Java in the web browser should just die...
Java as a platform is just fine.
If you follow the instructions for enterprise deployment and extract the MSI from the self-extracting archive, you won't get the updater or any adware. You will, however, still need to remove the previous version manually.
I don't think that UA has been a good detection method for a long time.... they all purport to be Mozilla by default for one thing. Also, all the major browsers will let you change your UA to whatever you want.
However, scientists have yet to agree on a mechanism by which the crust could create electromagnetic signals. One idea is that rocks can generate positive charges when heated or stressed in the build-up to an earthquake, says Friedemann Freund, an adjunct professor of physics at San Jose State University in California and a senior scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. “When you stress a rock, it turns into a battery,” Freund says. “Not an electrochemical battery that you find in your car, but a new type of semiconductor battery that produces electrons and holes.”
These “holes” are positive charges that come from molecular defects known as peroxy bonds, which occur in most crystalline rocks and involve two oxygen atoms bonded together instead of to silicon or another element. At high temperatures and pressures, peroxy bonds break, causing them to pull in an electron from a neighboring atom, and leave behind a positively charged “hole.” This creates a chain reaction of electrons flowing toward the peroxy defect, effectively creating a cloud of positive charge flowing away, potentially to the surface and beyond.
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And if *that* doesn't work, fire an inverse tachyon beam or a modified photon torpedo.
And it must be named "Star Track"
This has been going on for several days.
I have been getting logged out since Monday.
The problem is intermittent. Sometimes I will be logged in, sometimes I won't. It makes me suspect a load balancer issue on their federation servers.
Exactly.
As long as there are a handful of common apps (FB, E-mail, SMS, e-book, podcast, etc) then there is no real reason for a bunch of other apps.
Unless you want it as a gaming device. In which case, go ahead and get an Android or Apple thing.
I have been perfectly happy with my Lumia for the last year and it does everything I need it to. As a matter of fact, I find the Windows Phone OS to be very responsive and polished. It looks and works great.
Motorola did basically this with the Atrix. There was a completely separate OS image on the phone that was used when it was docked.
You could have the x86 chip and OS image on the "dock" piece that plugs into the phone.
I have played with Continuum in the MS store and it looks pretty cool. A full blown Windows 10 OS on a full sized monitor with keyboard/mouse when the phone is docked and Windows 10 mobile on the device when it is not docked.
The Windows 10 aspect was very responsive and indistinguishable from my home Windows 10 computer.
I could not agree with you more.
The encryption keys are only useful to decrypt your hard drive once your computer has been turned off.
There are much easier ways for hackers to get your data which do not require decryption at all (because that has already been or is being done once the computer is booted).
This is a perfectly reasonable trade off in usability without a huge hit to security.
It is not a "TNO" (trust no one) solution. But if you need that, you probably should not be running anything but a Linux box where you have personally vetted all of the code.
This was happening to me yesterday. I thought my account had been compromised because my password was failing.
The password recovery did not send me any e-mails either.
But then, magically, midway through the day, the session cookie must have been accepted again and I was suddenly logged in.
I, of course, changed my password... but I assume it was some server-side disruption.
"In essence, Facebook is claiming that since people quickly move on from Free Basics, it's less of a threat as a restricted replacement to the neutral Internet, and is more of a stepping stone to it."
So.... it's like pot (if you believe government claims about it being a gateway drug)
I think that this is probably correct.
People are so used to data breaches these days that I am sure people figure "Well, they probably learned their lesson and won't make that mistake again..."
I mean, I still shop at Target despite being caught up in their cluster of a data breach...
It's what plants crave...
Dump the stuff into the NY sewers.... If I am correct, we will see crime fighters inside of 20 years.
Just wait until someone is able to launch a 3d printer onto the moon and program it to print out the creator's face from the regolith...
I simply cannot see what could go wrong with this plan....
Oh, another fool-proof idea is just to launch the waste into the Sun...
Trump will save us and restore sanity to this topsy-turvy world.... wait what? The orange angry dufus guy?
I am guessing that it is the "one-dimensional" nature that holds the answer to your question.
How much does it cost to employ 1 engineer to operate (speed up, slow down, etc) 1 train?
How much would it cost to develop, test, implement and support a computer system for 1 train? More than it costs to employ 1 person for that train? There you go.
Now... self driving tractors on the highway... that would be huge...
Yeah, Cisco would be one of the last companies I would trust, simply *because* their equipment is so ubiquitous. I am sure that three letter agencies have long ago co-opted Cisco.
This whole code audit thing is so much PR BS. Why make a big deal out of it? Shouldn't it be a standard internal practice that would normally never make anyone bat an eye?
It's like saying, "Oh hey, hello world! We are now implementing a policy review of our employee coffee service! Aren't you all amazed and astounded by how much we care?!"
But what happens if they DO actually find something? Will they reveal it? I am guessing not.
Hmmm.... good point... perhaps we need "Smart cloud 2.0"
I think their rationale was that they didn't want to take responsibility for breaking compatibility for applications that rely on an older version of Java.
Since several parallel Java instances can be installed at the same time, why not just leave the old one there and know, for sure, that you won't break anything?
I am not defending them, I am just saying there *could* (at least at one time) be a valid reason for keeping old versions around.... Who knows, perhaps it was requested by a big client or perhaps was even a business need for themselves internally, so that's how they left it... it's a feature!
Yeah, it is for this reason that I created a powershell script for all of our computers which will, by default, remove all java versions from the computer at start up. It will check for group membership and install the approved version of java if that computer is in the group.
Well... Java in the web browser should just die...
Java as a platform is just fine.
If you follow the instructions for enterprise deployment and extract the MSI from the self-extracting archive, you won't get the updater or any adware. You will, however, still need to remove the previous version manually.
I don't think that UA has been a good detection method for a long time.... they all purport to be Mozilla by default for one thing. Also, all the major browsers will let you change your UA to whatever you want.
However, scientists have yet to agree on a mechanism by which the crust could create electromagnetic signals. One idea is that rocks can generate positive charges when heated or stressed in the build-up to an earthquake, says Friedemann Freund, an adjunct professor of physics at San Jose State University in California and a senior scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. “When you stress a rock, it turns into a battery,” Freund says. “Not an electrochemical battery that you find in your car, but a new type of semiconductor battery that produces electrons and holes.”
These “holes” are positive charges that come from molecular defects known as peroxy bonds, which occur in most crystalline rocks and involve two oxygen atoms bonded together instead of to silicon or another element. At high temperatures and pressures, peroxy bonds break, causing them to pull in an electron from a neighboring atom, and leave behind a positively charged “hole.” This creates a chain reaction of electrons flowing toward the peroxy defect, effectively creating a cloud of positive charge flowing away, potentially to the surface and beyond.
Well. That is what I was thinking too. But in TFA they reference a couple of occurrences which appear to already be known:
lights just prior to earthquakes
and
[...] the reported tendency for compass needles to dance around.
So, it sounds like electrical activity is something that is sometimes known to happen just prior to an earthquake.
Weird that now there is all of a sudden an "aha!" moment.
Dude! Foobar2000 for music! Best damn music player in existence (for Windows).