That with major competitors like Amazon already producing its own films, Apple, "had to do something..."
No they really fucking didn't. This stupid me-tooism in tech is a cancer. I wish companies would stop adopting every shitty idea from their competitors and remember what they hell they are doing in the first place. I mean these guys are run by MBAs right? Did they fail their course?
Angry user mob: The device you produced was discovered to have a backdoor! You need to update the firmware! Dodgy manufacturer: We have issued a security update, see changelog.
(case in point: Debian systemd maintainers still didn't manage to split the package to put the kitchen sink, bicycle and fish bowl (aka different components of systemd) apart.
Still didn't manage to implies they were actively trying. Do you have evidence to back up that statement?
Right. A typical init script is one line (using #!/lib/init/init-d-script), systemd usually requires you to edit 3-5 files.
Sorry but that is known horseshit. No major distro used that method, including Debian due to shitton of customisation used by each package. I remember this argument when systemd came out. The *average* init file used by Debian at the time was over 150 lines, though some of those were comments.
Also if you're editing more than 1 file to create a systemd unit then you're doing something very wrong. Though that one file could be as short as 5 lines including specifying when and how to start and its dependencies. So maybe you just mistyped?
Indeed it was. Doesn't change the fact that here we are talking about product launches that are being dismissed for irrelevant reasons while at the same time you happily expose yourself to incredible risks in other ways.
and we are not dealing with a complete unknown
Indeed we're not dealing with a complete unknown. We're dealing with a complete unknown as to if this is being exploited in the public, but on the rest of the topic what we *actually know* is that for a normal user the risk is incredibly frigging small.
Take your intellectually false argument at face value gives us Windows and the mess that Windows users find themselves in today.
Wow. Just wow. Talk about intellectually false arguments. Speaking of the mess of Windows users why not look at how much malware actually affects the core OS. Let me guess, you also think that running Windows is a major risk due to malware despite the fact that the vast majority of malware spreads not through exploits of the OS, but rather though exploits of the software that users use, and the general stupidity of those users.
You sound like a typical Linux user, smug in the superiority of the fact that there are less commoners on your platform but completely oblivious to the fact that if your OS had the Windows market share we'd be talking about how insecure Linux is because users are running "sudo chmod 777 britneyspears.jpg &./britneyspears.jpg" like the instructions told them to.
If you think doing a risk assessment is intellectually false please don't ever end up working in security.... Or safety.... Or investment where you're in charge of someone else's money.
Trouble is you have to sign in to use any of those features now. I never sign in to Google
Ending up in some anonymised database is a small price to pay for most of what I use an Android device for not working. I took your view early on, but phones and tablets these days thrive on online services.
Heck one of my favourite things about Google Maps is that if I look up a direction on the PC, I jump in the car put my phone in the docking station, click the little map icon, and the top most suggestion is the one I just looked up.
I think you may have a problem with your browser. Google maps isn't heavy in the slightest. It takes less than 2 seconds to load, and in the default zoom level, everything including scrips, data, the map itself, and interface comes in at under 400k. Scripting causes a single threaded blip up to about 20% on one of my cores that doesn't last longer than a second, and the memory used by the tab on maps is only 30% more than the memory used here on Slashdot.
That's not a Google issue, that's a local issue. Maps still show my local transit times including early, late, updated instructions if a connection will be missed, etc. just fine for metros and trains here in the Netherlands. It also worked fine in London last week.
I often use Google maps when I'm close to where I need to go but there's some last-minute uncertainty (was it this stop or the next? The train is pulling into the station)
You can have your maps running in the background, and bonus is you're going by public transport you'll get a notification if suddenly your option is no longer viable (e.g. train delay causes a missed connection), or a faster option becomes available. The greatest power of Google maps is not to tell you how to get to where you're going, but all the things that can go wrong on the way.
It's sounds like you're making things hard for yourself for no reason.
Errr literally all of that still works. You still get a view of all your Offline maps, it tells you exactly when they expire (unless updated) gives you the option to update view or modify the map, browse the map, and delete it.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong but the feature works just fine.
Oh and thanks for prompting me to check, I just realise I had large portions of Australia mapped offline. There's some disk space I can now recover rather than waiting until the 7th July 2019 for them to automatically expire.
You realise one of the key reasons for adopting systemd was that distribution maintainers have LESS work to do right? Not having to manage a shitload of nasty scripts was one of its great selling points to the maintainers.
Plus within the next 5 years systemd will have included the entire userland including a web browser and an office suite and will all be delivered via a single package that auto-updates regardless of whether you've set your system to do so or not. The engineers will only have a single package they need to test and everyone will be happy as pie.
Oh and systemd-mail will include adverts unless you subscribe to systemd-cloudoffice.
It's surprising to know the world is full of trade-offs. I happily pay the price knowing that the speed is far more important than the incredibly low risk that this security issue could be exploited against me. There's a reason that pretty much every specter and meltdown mitigation has been optional.
See "we don't know" re exploits in the wild. You just go right ahead and respell that as "there are none" and go back to your crack pipe.
We don't know a lot of things. But generally we don't use a complete unknown combined with a low risk profile and then burn everything to the ground in the name of security. You don't know what zero days are present in the firmware of your router right now, why are you still on the internet?
I will go with the Linux devs, who know just a bit more about it than you and released yet another costly mitigation today.
Again what has that got to do with the risk assessment? The devs have to do this because there are some scenarios where the mitigation is most definitely required. I've said that up front. In fact Linux more than anything is the OS most likely used by those 0.1% that actually need to worry about Speculative Execution vulnerabilities.
I trust those devs too. They are clever. They understand that every vulnerability comes with a risk associated with it, and that this risk varies, and just like every other specter and meltdown based mitigation they made it optional for a reason, because they know what they are talking about.
And the charge of rape came not from the women who he is supposed to have raped, but the prosecutor.
Maybe your legal system works differently but in many countries in the world criminal charges can ONLY come from a state prosecutor, and Sweden is no exception.
When it was that shithead who just became justice, you whined holy hell about false allegations of sexual misconduct.
Nope, actually I whined a bit that those allegations weren't taken seriously nor investigated. Generally I whined that the way that judge behaved in under pressure and in front of questioning, and how he mounted his legal defense showed that he shouldn't be a justice, or judge, or any court. But mostly I whined that "derp derp I like beer" was decided to be the best out of 350million possible people (shortlisted to 12)
Now someone you don't agree politically with is being accused
Huh? What does politics have to do with someone fleeing criminal charges? I'm beginning to think you're confusing me with someone else.
Interesting side note: Airplane mode used to disable the GPS reception on early mobile phones.
But in your edge case the get a GPS fix before enabling Galileo still make sense. Just because you have enough GPS satellites for a fix doesn't mean you have significant accuracy so you can still benefit from more satellites. This is especially true in crowded cities where location seems to jump around a lot. Ironically this is a big problem mostly in America rather than Europe since European cities generally aren't a sea of skyscrapers.
It's a "single pan balance" which balances gravitational acceleration against acceleration caused by a magnetic field.
Except it has a resting state where gravity acts on both sides of the balance which gives you effectively a calibrated zero independent of any gravity. Unless the gravity on one side of the balance is different from the gravity on the other side.... And if that is an issue it would probably be a good idea to see if Gordon Freeman is standing behind you whacking things with crowbars.
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That with major competitors like Amazon already producing its own films, Apple, "had to do something..."
No they really fucking didn't. This stupid me-tooism in tech is a cancer. I wish companies would stop adopting every shitty idea from their competitors and remember what they hell they are doing in the first place. I mean these guys are run by MBAs right? Did they fail their course?
Why it won't improve security.
Angry user mob: The device you produced was discovered to have a backdoor! You need to update the firmware!
Dodgy manufacturer: We have issued a security update, see changelog.
Change Log:
Backdoor password changed.
Well looks like Google is going to get sued for patent infringement. Why can't they come up with original ideas.
You don't understand this is new. It's like the original idea, but on a computer. ... errr in a pocket.
(case in point: Debian systemd maintainers still didn't manage to split the package to put the kitchen sink, bicycle and fish bowl (aka different components of systemd) apart.
Still didn't manage to implies they were actively trying. Do you have evidence to back up that statement?
Right. A typical init script is one line (using #!/lib/init/init-d-script), systemd usually requires you to edit 3-5 files.
Sorry but that is known horseshit. No major distro used that method, including Debian due to shitton of customisation used by each package. I remember this argument when systemd came out. The *average* init file used by Debian at the time was over 150 lines, though some of those were comments.
Also if you're editing more than 1 file to create a systemd unit then you're doing something very wrong. Though that one file could be as short as 5 lines including specifying when and how to start and its dependencies. So maybe you just mistyped?
Hyperbole. Nobody is burning things to the ground
Indeed it was. Doesn't change the fact that here we are talking about product launches that are being dismissed for irrelevant reasons while at the same time you happily expose yourself to incredible risks in other ways.
and we are not dealing with a complete unknown
Indeed we're not dealing with a complete unknown. We're dealing with a complete unknown as to if this is being exploited in the public, but on the rest of the topic what we *actually know* is that for a normal user the risk is incredibly frigging small.
Take your intellectually false argument at face value gives us Windows and the mess that Windows users find themselves in today.
Wow. Just wow. Talk about intellectually false arguments. Speaking of the mess of Windows users why not look at how much malware actually affects the core OS. Let me guess, you also think that running Windows is a major risk due to malware despite the fact that the vast majority of malware spreads not through exploits of the OS, but rather though exploits of the software that users use, and the general stupidity of those users.
You sound like a typical Linux user, smug in the superiority of the fact that there are less commoners on your platform but completely oblivious to the fact that if your OS had the Windows market share we'd be talking about how insecure Linux is because users are running "sudo chmod 777 britneyspears.jpg & ./britneyspears.jpg" like the instructions told them to.
If you think doing a risk assessment is intellectually false please don't ever end up working in security. ... Or safety. ... Or investment where you're in charge of someone else's money.
Trouble is you have to sign in to use any of those features now. I never sign in to Google
Ending up in some anonymised database is a small price to pay for most of what I use an Android device for not working. I took your view early on, but phones and tablets these days thrive on online services.
Heck one of my favourite things about Google Maps is that if I look up a direction on the PC, I jump in the car put my phone in the docking station, click the little map icon, and the top most suggestion is the one I just looked up.
I think you may have a problem with your browser. Google maps isn't heavy in the slightest. It takes less than 2 seconds to load, and in the default zoom level, everything including scrips, data, the map itself, and interface comes in at under 400k. Scripting causes a single threaded blip up to about 20% on one of my cores that doesn't last longer than a second, and the memory used by the tab on maps is only 30% more than the memory used here on Slashdot.
That's not a Google issue, that's a local issue. Maps still show my local transit times including early, late, updated instructions if a connection will be missed, etc. just fine for metros and trains here in the Netherlands. It also worked fine in London last week.
I often use Google maps when I'm close to where I need to go but there's some last-minute uncertainty (was it this stop or the next? The train is pulling into the station)
You can have your maps running in the background, and bonus is you're going by public transport you'll get a notification if suddenly your option is no longer viable (e.g. train delay causes a missed connection), or a faster option becomes available. The greatest power of Google maps is not to tell you how to get to where you're going, but all the things that can go wrong on the way.
It's sounds like you're making things hard for yourself for no reason.
Errr literally all of that still works. You still get a view of all your Offline maps, it tells you exactly when they expire (unless updated) gives you the option to update view or modify the map, browse the map, and delete it.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong but the feature works just fine.
Oh and thanks for prompting me to check, I just realise I had large portions of Australia mapped offline. There's some disk space I can now recover rather than waiting until the 7th July 2019 for them to automatically expire.
car carrying a baseball bat
Baseball bat? Is that the imperial version of the cricket bat?
You realise one of the key reasons for adopting systemd was that distribution maintainers have LESS work to do right? Not having to manage a shitload of nasty scripts was one of its great selling points to the maintainers.
Plus within the next 5 years systemd will have included the entire userland including a web browser and an office suite and will all be delivered via a single package that auto-updates regardless of whether you've set your system to do so or not. The engineers will only have a single package they need to test and everyone will be happy as pie.
Oh and systemd-mail will include adverts unless you subscribe to systemd-cloudoffice.
This has already been confirmed as not going forward by the Communications VP at Microsoft:
https://twitter.com/fxshaw/sta...
We can all collectively stop freaking out about an App absolutely no-one here uses.
Newsflash: People often put up with defaults.
Not to use Microsoft Mail. Thanks for that! I was really worried about having to find a bad reason to not use it, but you gave me a good one.
So I guess you're going to go back to using it now right? https://twitter.com/fxshaw/sta...
It's surprising to know the world is full of trade-offs. I happily pay the price knowing that the speed is far more important than the incredibly low risk that this security issue could be exploited against me. There's a reason that pretty much every specter and meltdown mitigation has been optional.
See "we don't know" re exploits in the wild. You just go right ahead and respell that as "there are none" and go back to your crack pipe.
We don't know a lot of things. But generally we don't use a complete unknown combined with a low risk profile and then burn everything to the ground in the name of security. You don't know what zero days are present in the firmware of your router right now, why are you still on the internet?
I will go with the Linux devs, who know just a bit more about it than you and released yet another costly mitigation today.
Again what has that got to do with the risk assessment? The devs have to do this because there are some scenarios where the mitigation is most definitely required. I've said that up front. In fact Linux more than anything is the OS most likely used by those 0.1% that actually need to worry about Speculative Execution vulnerabilities.
I trust those devs too. They are clever. They understand that every vulnerability comes with a risk associated with it, and that this risk varies, and just like every other specter and meltdown based mitigation they made it optional for a reason, because they know what they are talking about.
And the charge of rape came not from the women who he is supposed to have raped, but the prosecutor.
Maybe your legal system works differently but in many countries in the world criminal charges can ONLY come from a state prosecutor, and Sweden is no exception.
When it was that shithead who just became justice, you whined holy hell about false allegations of sexual misconduct.
Nope, actually I whined a bit that those allegations weren't taken seriously nor investigated. Generally I whined that the way that judge behaved in under pressure and in front of questioning, and how he mounted his legal defense showed that he shouldn't be a justice, or judge, or any court. But mostly I whined that "derp derp I like beer" was decided to be the best out of 350million possible people (shortlisted to 12)
Now someone you don't agree politically with is being accused
Huh? What does politics have to do with someone fleeing criminal charges? I'm beginning to think you're confusing me with someone else.
Interesting side note: Airplane mode used to disable the GPS reception on early mobile phones.
But in your edge case the get a GPS fix before enabling Galileo still make sense. Just because you have enough GPS satellites for a fix doesn't mean you have significant accuracy so you can still benefit from more satellites. This is especially true in crowded cities where location seems to jump around a lot. Ironically this is a big problem mostly in America rather than Europe since European cities generally aren't a sea of skyscrapers.
Right I got you now.
Sorry disregard that, logic error, off for coffee.
It's a "single pan balance" which balances gravitational acceleration against acceleration caused by a magnetic field.
Except it has a resting state where gravity acts on both sides of the balance which gives you effectively a calibrated zero independent of any gravity. Unless the gravity on one side of the balance is different from the gravity on the other side. ... And if that is an issue it would probably be a good idea to see if Gordon Freeman is standing behind you whacking things with crowbars.
I understand: newer is always better.
Yeah I know. Defining the Kg to something fixed is right up there with replacing sysv with systemd.
unlike the old method, which was 0.000005%.
Plus and Minus a random change that makes it impossible to know what it was or will be for sure.
There is no such thing as a perfect septum
It may surprise you that medical definitions do not include the word "perfect".