My main concern is that once the ISP becomes a censorship authority, how slippery does that slope become? Great Wall of Canada? Probably not that bad, but probably a good time to start supporting the Canadian chapter of the EFF?
Also, if there's a "group text" happening on a group of iPhones and I get dropped into it I can't participate in the group. I get some of the messages as individual texts and I can reply to that one sender.
I suppose this is partly due to Apple going with iMessage, which ends up putting it the same well as the other closed solutions? MMS has always been a bit of a shit show from my experience. The idea was okay, but it never really seemed to evolve. Maybe IP based MMS would be the next needed iteration?
The crazy thing is that text messages are still a more universal platform, allowing any person with a mobile phone to message anyone else using a different service provider. The alternatives, such as Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Slack and Skype are all islands keeping communications with their borders. Even e-mail is still more universal.
I am looking forward to the day that I can text message anyone on any platform, from any other platform. Jabber tried doing that, but from what I understand suffered from technical limitations. Maybe we need a proper 'SX' (short message exchange) field in the DNS records and IETF define an RFC for some universal platform? Then again, without a government mandate, I doubt we will see this happen.
This is the big boys flinging mud at each other. Petty at best? The best outcome for anyone else is not to overthink things and just enjoy the popcorn, since it is going to feel more like an improv contest anyhow.
The materials arenâ(TM)t the real cost, even if they are part of it. It is the labour and expected profit margins that have an impact.
This why bringing manufacturing back to the US seems like a scam. It is usually automation that replaces jobs that were previously overseas, since the market isnâ(TM)t necessarily going to accept increased product costs.
Along those lines I like to break programming languages into two main groups: the languages that people use and the languages that will influence those languages. As an example: Java is a language that is used heavily in enterprise, while Scala influenced the direction of Java, without actually replacing it.
Of course this is a simplification of the reality, but this perspective seems to work well enough.
In the last generation most of the time I saw a promising game for the Nintendo platform it ended up being a DS game. Hopefully the Switch changes this and makes developers want to focus on the Switch, rather than the DS.
The other thing that makes me like the Switch: LAN play. The promise of being in the middle of nowhere, or up i the air, and being able to play with another person who also wields a Nintendo Switch and not moaning about requiring an internet connection.
If they really cared then they would fix the Chrome bug on Android, related to soft keyboards. Essentially the keyboardEvent.key is broken there and they donâ(TM)t care to fix it. Only platform where this does not work. >:(
Only if you use a shitty browser that fails to alert you to being MiTMed. Any decent browser will show when your employer is doing this.
Problem is the certificate is trusted by the browser, because your employer manages all infrastructure. See this as a ‘trusted’ or ‘enforced’ man-in-the-middle
We have been existing for a long time without https, but now we want a certificate for everything, even places where is trust isnâ(TM)t needed. One of the issues I see is that there is a difference between trust and encryption, but the average user may not make the distinction.
Also, to the average user it isnâ(TM)t clear who the third party they are trusting is and whether they are any more trustworthy. This leads to the risk of blind trust and the consequences that go with it. A bit like afreeing to a EULA, without reading it.
Also it isnâ(TM)t immediately obvious that something is wrong, since you have been at it too long or that your interpretation of things wasn't right. Other issues include trying to to prioritise doing code or testing. Usually they end up conflicting.
At the same time smaller organisations need to be more creative on how to reduce bugs, due to lack of manpower. Sometimes the cost is more bugs, sometimes reduced features or some other compromise must be found.
One thing I would push for at minimum is continuous integration and linting. Next is unit tests and integration tests.
For the price of a pair of decent ear bud headphones, I am yet to see a pair of Bluetooth headphones with equivalent audio quality. Also setup of wired headphones is straightforward. And, no charging needed wired headphones.
Hopefully they wonâ(TM)t be Appleish and require approved by Google adaptors.
I ran into that recently, where I wasnâ(TM)t able to get the office Apple dongle and those stopped being recognised after a week. Mind you the DAC in the Apple dongle does seem to provide better audio quality (it may be perceived, but the tone wasnâ(TM)t the same). The sad thing in all this was the other dongle wasnâ(TM)t any cheaper than the Apple dongle and in fact was more expensive before I indicated they were charging more than Apple.
Crowdsourcing also depends on the crowd for the most part being non-malicious and honest. Just imagine 'pranking' the system and the potential outcomes.
Totally agree. Even humans get confused when trusting the map and GPS too much, instead of using reasonable judgement. There have been cases of vehicles ending up far from the expected destination, on a non-existent road or even trucks on roads that were too narrow for them. While software can compensate for some of the human errors, they will introduce others, at least at the beginning, because of sensory limitations or analysis limitations.
The other issue is GPS accuracy, whereby you can be happily going along with a 5m accuracy and then find yourself with a 100m accuracy, due to obstruction of the sky by tall buildings, cliff faces and trees. Heck I have gone for a run where there is a fairly clear path to see at least three satellites and still my recorded path jumped around, as if I was jumping from side to side of the street, even though I was running in a straight line.
Sounds like something OpenStreetMap already does, though there are probably accuracy and liabilities limitations? Though, based on the following sentence, I would suspect the map data they produce is not going to be open:
Mapper’s solution is to create an army of part-time workers to gather data that will accrue to a huge “base map” for autonomous cars, and to update the map to keep it current.
The other thing is whether they will reference publicly the sources of their data, otherwise there is likely to be a high risk of ripping off other sources and even including the same errors.
This is where having a visual indicator that only the OS and user know about could help? It could be an image or a phrase, but the idea is that an application couldnâ(TM)t forge the OS dialogue, because it doesnâ(TM)t have access to that info.
At the same time, there are probably still limitations arising from an app asking for permissions it shouldnâ(TM)t need. This easier to vet for anything going through the App Store and possibly signed applications, but for anything else it is still user beware.
Well we should probably also include the amount the military spends on protecting oil interests? While not a subsidy, it certainly is an expenditure by the government for an industry.
I'm not optimistic this cpu would be allowed to be mass-produced, since it appears it won't have any of backdoors the Intel and AMD ones have.
That’s the difference between implementation and specific implementations. Who is even to say there isn’t a secret instruction in a given implementation? The problem will end up being whether the open implementation provides enough value of a licensed technology like ARM.
Sometimes the open solution is more costly than the paid solution, so we will see what happens down the road.
You may be right, but for some if they can’t be sure then they want to be close enough to the original. At that point if the audio sounds shoddy then you can hardly blame the compression.
At the same time 160 albums is not a bad number of albums on a device. Many people don’t have near that number in their main collection. So, hardly an argument for external storage and if it is, well there other devices and at different price points.
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My main concern is that once the ISP becomes a censorship authority, how slippery does that slope become? Great Wall of Canada? Probably not that bad, but probably a good time to start supporting the Canadian chapter of the EFF?
Let's put this in a perspective:
Citation needed? Can you provide a source for these numbers, otherwise I'll have to declare them a guess, even if they are right.
Also, if there's a "group text" happening on a group of iPhones and I get dropped into it I can't participate in the group. I get some of the messages as individual texts and I can reply to that one sender.
I suppose this is partly due to Apple going with iMessage, which ends up putting it the same well as the other closed solutions? MMS has always been a bit of a shit show from my experience. The idea was okay, but it never really seemed to evolve. Maybe IP based MMS would be the next needed iteration?
The crazy thing is that text messages are still a more universal platform, allowing any person with a mobile phone to message anyone else using a different service provider. The alternatives, such as Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Slack and Skype are all islands keeping communications with their borders. Even e-mail is still more universal.
I am looking forward to the day that I can text message anyone on any platform, from any other platform. Jabber tried doing that, but from what I understand suffered from technical limitations. Maybe we need a proper 'SX' (short message exchange) field in the DNS records and IETF define an RFC for some universal platform? Then again, without a government mandate, I doubt we will see this happen.
Now the question is how the truck will be arranged in the fairing? And then will it survive the vibration tests?
This is the big boys flinging mud at each other. Petty at best? The best outcome for anyone else is not to overthink things and just enjoy the popcorn, since it is going to feel more like an improv contest anyhow.
The materials arenâ(TM)t the real cost, even if they are part of it. It is the labour and expected profit margins that have an impact.
This why bringing manufacturing back to the US seems like a scam. It is usually automation that replaces jobs that were previously overseas, since the market isnâ(TM)t necessarily going to accept increased product costs.
Along those lines I like to break programming languages into two main groups: the languages that people use and the languages that will influence those languages. As an example: Java is a language that is used heavily in enterprise, while Scala influenced the direction of Java, without actually replacing it.
Of course this is a simplification of the reality, but this perspective seems to work well enough.
In the last generation most of the time I saw a promising game for the Nintendo platform it ended up being a DS game. Hopefully the Switch changes this and makes developers want to focus on the Switch, rather than the DS.
The other thing that makes me like the Switch: LAN play. The promise of being in the middle of nowhere, or up i the air, and being able to play with another person who also wields a Nintendo Switch and not moaning about requiring an internet connection.
If they really cared then they would fix the Chrome bug on Android, related to soft keyboards. Essentially the keyboardEvent.key is broken there and they donâ(TM)t care to fix it. Only platform where this does not work. >:(
If you cant measure it, its not real!
And if you can, then it must be fake, unless it matches ideologies?
Only if you use a shitty browser that fails to alert you to being MiTMed. Any decent browser will show when your employer is doing this.
Problem is the certificate is trusted by the browser, because your employer manages all infrastructure. See this as a ‘trusted’ or ‘enforced’ man-in-the-middle
We have been existing for a long time without https, but now we want a certificate for everything, even places where is trust isnâ(TM)t needed. One of the issues I see is that there is a difference between trust and encryption, but the average user may not make the distinction.
Also, to the average user it isnâ(TM)t clear who the third party they are trusting is and whether they are any more trustworthy. This leads to the risk of blind trust and the consequences that go with it. A bit like afreeing to a EULA, without reading it.
Also it isnâ(TM)t immediately obvious that something is wrong, since you have been at it too long or that your interpretation of things wasn't right. Other issues include trying to to prioritise doing code or testing. Usually they end up conflicting.
At the same time smaller organisations need to be more creative on how to reduce bugs, due to lack of manpower. Sometimes the cost is more bugs, sometimes reduced features or some other compromise must be found.
One thing I would push for at minimum is continuous integration and linting. Next is unit tests and integration tests.
Are suggesting this was a workaround to allow for autonomous cars?
For the price of a pair of decent ear bud headphones, I am yet to see a pair of Bluetooth headphones with equivalent audio quality. Also setup of wired headphones is straightforward. And, no charging needed wired headphones.
Hopefully they wonâ(TM)t be Appleish and require approved by Google adaptors.
I ran into that recently, where I wasnâ(TM)t able to get the office Apple dongle and those stopped being recognised after a week. Mind you the DAC in the Apple dongle does seem to provide better audio quality (it may be perceived, but the tone wasnâ(TM)t the same). The sad thing in all this was the other dongle wasnâ(TM)t any cheaper than the Apple dongle and in fact was more expensive before I indicated they were charging more than Apple.
https://xkcd.com/1897/
Oddly, only from a week or so ago.
Crowdsourcing also depends on the crowd for the most part being non-malicious and honest. Just imagine 'pranking' the system and the potential outcomes.
Totally agree. Even humans get confused when trusting the map and GPS too much, instead of using reasonable judgement. There have been cases of vehicles ending up far from the expected destination, on a non-existent road or even trucks on roads that were too narrow for them. While software can compensate for some of the human errors, they will introduce others, at least at the beginning, because of sensory limitations or analysis limitations.
The other issue is GPS accuracy, whereby you can be happily going along with a 5m accuracy and then find yourself with a 100m accuracy, due to obstruction of the sky by tall buildings, cliff faces and trees. Heck I have gone for a run where there is a fairly clear path to see at least three satellites and still my recorded path jumped around, as if I was jumping from side to side of the street, even though I was running in a straight line.
Sounds like something OpenStreetMap already does, though there are probably accuracy and liabilities limitations? Though, based on the following sentence, I would suspect the map data they produce is not going to be open:
Mapper’s solution is to create an army of part-time workers to gather data that will accrue to a huge “base map” for autonomous cars, and to update the map to keep it current.
The other thing is whether they will reference publicly the sources of their data, otherwise there is likely to be a high risk of ripping off other sources and even including the same errors.
This is where having a visual indicator that only the OS and user know about could help? It could be an image or a phrase, but the idea is that an application couldnâ(TM)t forge the OS dialogue, because it doesnâ(TM)t have access to that info.
At the same time, there are probably still limitations arising from an app asking for permissions it shouldnâ(TM)t need. This easier to vet for anything going through the App Store and possibly signed applications, but for anything else it is still user beware.
Well we should probably also include the amount the military spends on protecting oil interests? While not a subsidy, it certainly is an expenditure by the government for an industry.
That was meant to be ‘reference implementation’ vs ‘actual implementation’, but I failed in putting that.
I'm not optimistic this cpu would be allowed to be mass-produced, since it appears it won't have any of backdoors the Intel and AMD ones have.
That’s the difference between implementation and specific implementations. Who is even to say there isn’t a secret instruction in a given implementation? The problem will end up being whether the open implementation provides enough value of a licensed technology like ARM.
Sometimes the open solution is more costly than the paid solution, so we will see what happens down the road.
You may be right, but for some if they can’t be sure then they want to be close enough to the original. At that point if the audio sounds shoddy then you can hardly blame the compression.
At the same time 160 albums is not a bad number of albums on a device. Many people don’t have near that number in their main collection. So, hardly an argument for external storage and if it is, well there other devices and at different price points.