But changing winter time to summer time is not going to make our winter days any longer.
If you think this arguement has anything to do with changing the length of day then you've most fundamentally missed the point.
the son won't be up until 9:45 (where I live at least).
Great, so what you're saying is sunset won't be until a full hour later in the evening allowing you more daylight after work. That sounds very plesant.
That is going to mess with our biological clocks.
You're not a farmer, you don't get up at the crack of dawn and go to bed at sunset, and if you did you wouldn't be a farmer anyway. Literally no one in the world sets their awake / sleep time by the sun anymore, and if this is an issue for your may I recommend a set of curtains and a decent sunrise alarmclock.
However arbitrary people think timezones are, our bodies have evolved to respond to the cycle of sunlight
No. Your bodies have evolved well beyond that since the invention of the candle. Your biological clock actually works just fine in complete darkness or in full on daylight as well though studies have shown that it actually runs slightly slower than the average day consistently for all people and so when deprived of external stimulous after about 2 weeks you're clock is out by a couple of hours. Clocks fix that quite easily. Humans are incredibly adaptable to our environments. We live fine in areas of the world where the sun doesn't set or doesn't rise for half the year. I drive to work in pitch black and home in pitch black. In Summer I will happily sit and watch the sunset at 11:30pm if I feel like staying up late, otherwise there's no problem going to bed while the sun is still up either.
Winter mornings are hard enough as it is.
Get a heater. The only thing that makes winter mornings hard is the dread of cold outside the bed. But if you can't (and you legitimately might not be able to) cope with your sleep patterns not regulated by light, the fix is trivial. There's literally countless product on the market to help you.
About the only time "noon" means the sun at its highest peak is in a western movie during a quickdraw. For some reason this reference was often combined with some throwaway comment about not being able to see your shadow.
Mind you it makes perfect sense since these movies were set in the wild west where sundials were the time piece of choice.:-)
Hahahaha, no, it does not. We get asked how to find backdoors
You get asked to find backdoors mostly in systems that are questionable. On the other hand the "trusted partner" space of the fortune 500 is a ratsnest of unverifiable security. This goes double for common hardware.
I'm sorry if you buy this crap as well given that all the phones on their market are as thick or in most cases thicker than their past several generations.
The iPhone XS is the same thickness as the iPhone 5. The thinnest model was the iPhone 6 then they all started getting thicker again. Likewise the Galaxy S9 is the same thickness as the Galaxy S5, the S6 was also the thinnest model.
Battery sizes have been increasing in all phones as well. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!
Stop trying to make the thinnest phone. Make them thicker, use the extra space for a larger battery, and make them durable enough to not need a case. They'll still be thinner than you end up with today.
So all the latest flagship phones on the market are the same size or thicker than their previous generations. All the latest flagship phones on the market have a larger battery capacity than their previous generations. All the latest flagship phones on the market have a variety of structural enhancements including stronger glass, more durable shells and waterproofing to boot.
What's your point again? Just buy a damn phone, they have literally made exactly what you're asking for.
Yet you sound like one of the very VERY few people who specifically have a use case to tinker with the inner workings of your system.
Yes you should definitely have to. If one thing has been proven time and time again by an internet full of infested malware it's that average users are not able to be trusted to maintain their own security.
I still remember hooking up a Windows 2000 machine directly to the internet to prove a point several years after Blaster first came out. It lasted a whole of 10 seconds. literally years after the biggest malware event to date made the rounds in the news the internet was still full of unpatched and malware ridden machines spreading Blaster like a zero day with no resistance.
Yes users DEFINITELY should need to root their phone if they are going to start doing anything beyond installing a few apps and playing around. Hell I laughed at the idea of the internet drivers license when it was proposed in the 90s, but in retrospect yeah users should be saved from their own stupidity until they can prove they are able to do what it is they want and understand the consequences of their actions.
Providing you don't use full disk encryption, in which case TPM will store the user credentials for the encryption only and then bitlocker will offload the rest to your hardware.
You can check this by running "manage-bde -status c:" as administrator and hope you don't see Hardware Encryption enabled.
And when you go to Truecrypt's website it will suggest you instead use Bitlocker and even provide instructions for you to do so.
When Bitlocker detects hardware encryption is present, supported, and you decide to opt for full disk encryption it will offload it to hardware without ever prompting or indicating this fact to the user.
So I would suggest don't point people to Truecrypt. You're sending mixed messages.
If that is your criteria you've basically labelled the entire world dumb. It's not a very sensible way to go about solving the problem. Literally most of industry trust the process of outsourcing unverifiable expertise to a 3rd party.
For someone self medicating for a medical condition those behaviors you describe can look a lot like an addiction.
They are not mutually exclusive. Someone can be legitimately medicating for a purpose while simultaneously addicted to the medication. The problem arises if the medication supply stops or better still the original medical condition subsides.
I've heard of cancer patients craving marijuana
Please repeat after me, a "craving" is not an addiction especially not when treating an unrelated symptom. Don't confuse the two. Now if the lack of marijuana is what causes the pain that creates the craving, THAT is an addiction.
The very fact that the concept of "pseudo-addiction" has made it to medical literature is an indication that addiction is poorly defined
Addiction isn't poorly defined. It's poorly understood, and precisely those things which look like addictions which are not are what medical literature has attempted to define in an attempt to clarify the problem.
We need better testing for what is addiction as opposed to people craving proper treatment for their mental or physical pain.
No we don't, we just need better understanding of the source of the pain in question. But while we're at it I want a unicorn too since unrealistic and highly subjective wishes are the top of the list today.
Statistically, two of the most dangerous times of year come the week after each of the time changes as people's body-clocks don't match up with the time of day.
Err no, literally the body clock has nothing to do with it and it's down to stress related issues due to clocks not matching up. This directly leads to heart attacks and accidents due to rush related mistakes.
I understand that there are concerns for children standing in the dark waiting for buses.
I don't. I may have in the odd days in the 1800s when the union of lantern lighters took a strike day but Nicholas Tesla fixed that problem for us.
So while summer time all year round sounds pleasant, it's not.
Why not? None of your post so far backs up this statement. What is your definition of pleasant? It sure as heck isn't ensuring that the sun is at it's highest point at 1200. Pretty much no one can give a shit about that, other than owners of sundial ornaments.
What makes your timezone so special? Timezones are nothing more than an arbitrary construct linking diverse groups to a common temporal map. We are describing a problem that extends across the entire basis of time for a given zone, so adjusting that timezone is not only the correct solution, but it's also the only feasible one and the only one which actually makes sense.
Stop making time something it's not. It's arbitrary by location.
I assume you're chasing cheap laughs with your EEE comment and aren't silly enough to think that this is a viable strategy given what they are doing, what product they are targetting or how they are currently operating. If you think it is, then you should go back to the start and re-read how EEE works.
This. I always laugh at videos of newly born animals falling over trying to take their first steps. And then cry a bit when I realise the years it takes us the dominant species to achieve the same feat.
Who cares. It's just the Chinese. I'd be more worried about local western made phones made with the approval of a TLA who actually has a meaningful impact on your life.
If you think headphone jacks and notches are the opinion of one guy, you haven't been paying attention to the very site in which you're currently posting your ignorance.
Because it's easier to change the standard measure than implement a decision separately on thousands of independent entities. Mind you I'm sure you're just in the pocket of the big sign producers.
That's not a problem with the EU. An online poll was conducted, that in no way bound any of the MEPs to vote on what was in front of them. That process is as democratic as any functioning Western democracy.
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But changing winter time to summer time is not going to make our winter days any longer.
If you think this arguement has anything to do with changing the length of day then you've most fundamentally missed the point.
the son won't be up until 9:45 (where I live at least).
Great, so what you're saying is sunset won't be until a full hour later in the evening allowing you more daylight after work. That sounds very plesant.
That is going to mess with our biological clocks.
You're not a farmer, you don't get up at the crack of dawn and go to bed at sunset, and if you did you wouldn't be a farmer anyway. Literally no one in the world sets their awake / sleep time by the sun anymore, and if this is an issue for your may I recommend a set of curtains and a decent sunrise alarmclock.
However arbitrary people think timezones are, our bodies have evolved to respond to the cycle of sunlight
No. Your bodies have evolved well beyond that since the invention of the candle. Your biological clock actually works just fine in complete darkness or in full on daylight as well though studies have shown that it actually runs slightly slower than the average day consistently for all people and so when deprived of external stimulous after about 2 weeks you're clock is out by a couple of hours. Clocks fix that quite easily. Humans are incredibly adaptable to our environments. We live fine in areas of the world where the sun doesn't set or doesn't rise for half the year. I drive to work in pitch black and home in pitch black. In Summer I will happily sit and watch the sunset at 11:30pm if I feel like staying up late, otherwise there's no problem going to bed while the sun is still up either.
Winter mornings are hard enough as it is.
Get a heater. The only thing that makes winter mornings hard is the dread of cold outside the bed. But if you can't (and you legitimately might not be able to) cope with your sleep patterns not regulated by light, the fix is trivial. There's literally countless product on the market to help you.
Try an 11 hour change in sleep patterns
You're doing daylight savings time wrong. :-)
But I'm with you with the travel. As a European Australian with lots of friends in Canada I know that all to well.
I don't quite get the 1950s western movie
About the only time "noon" means the sun at its highest peak is in a western movie during a quickdraw. For some reason this reference was often combined with some throwaway comment about not being able to see your shadow.
Mind you it makes perfect sense since these movies were set in the wild west where sundials were the time piece of choice. :-)
Hahahaha, no, it does not. We get asked how to find backdoors
You get asked to find backdoors mostly in systems that are questionable. On the other hand the "trusted partner" space of the fortune 500 is a ratsnest of unverifiable security. This goes double for common hardware.
Yes, most of the world is dumber than a bag of rocks.
Including those who think they can solve this problem simply by pointing it out. That was my point. Calling the world dumb is part of the problem.
They have literally been doing that for the past 5 years. The thinnest iPhone was the iPhone 6 and the thinnest Galaxy was the S6.
They have been getting thicker with each generation.
Sorry, if you buy that "thinspiration" crap
I'm sorry if you buy this crap as well given that all the phones on their market are as thick or in most cases thicker than their past several generations.
The iPhone XS is the same thickness as the iPhone 5. The thinnest model was the iPhone 6 then they all started getting thicker again.
Likewise the Galaxy S9 is the same thickness as the Galaxy S5, the S6 was also the thinnest model.
Battery sizes have been increasing in all phones as well. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!
Stop trying to make the thinnest phone. Make them thicker, use the extra space for a larger battery, and make them durable enough to not need a case. They'll still be thinner than you end up with today.
So all the latest flagship phones on the market are the same size or thicker than their previous generations.
All the latest flagship phones on the market have a larger battery capacity than their previous generations.
All the latest flagship phones on the market have a variety of structural enhancements including stronger glass, more durable shells and waterproofing to boot.
What's your point again? Just buy a damn phone, they have literally made exactly what you're asking for.
Because I shouldn't bloody have to.
Yet you sound like one of the very VERY few people who specifically have a use case to tinker with the inner workings of your system.
Yes you should definitely have to. If one thing has been proven time and time again by an internet full of infested malware it's that average users are not able to be trusted to maintain their own security.
I still remember hooking up a Windows 2000 machine directly to the internet to prove a point several years after Blaster first came out. It lasted a whole of 10 seconds. literally years after the biggest malware event to date made the rounds in the news the internet was still full of unpatched and malware ridden machines spreading Blaster like a zero day with no resistance.
Yes users DEFINITELY should need to root their phone if they are going to start doing anything beyond installing a few apps and playing around. Hell I laughed at the idea of the internet drivers license when it was proposed in the 90s, but in retrospect yeah users should be saved from their own stupidity until they can prove they are able to do what it is they want and understand the consequences of their actions.
Providing you don't use full disk encryption, in which case TPM will store the user credentials for the encryption only and then bitlocker will offload the rest to your hardware.
You can check this by running "manage-bde -status c:" as administrator and hope you don't see Hardware Encryption enabled.
And when you go to Truecrypt's website it will suggest you instead use Bitlocker and even provide instructions for you to do so.
When Bitlocker detects hardware encryption is present, supported, and you decide to opt for full disk encryption it will offload it to hardware without ever prompting or indicating this fact to the user.
So I would suggest don't point people to Truecrypt. You're sending mixed messages.
If that is your criteria you've basically labelled the entire world dumb. It's not a very sensible way to go about solving the problem. Literally most of industry trust the process of outsourcing unverifiable expertise to a 3rd party.
For someone self medicating for a medical condition those behaviors you describe can look a lot like an addiction.
They are not mutually exclusive. Someone can be legitimately medicating for a purpose while simultaneously addicted to the medication. The problem arises if the medication supply stops or better still the original medical condition subsides.
I've heard of cancer patients craving marijuana
Please repeat after me, a "craving" is not an addiction especially not when treating an unrelated symptom. Don't confuse the two. Now if the lack of marijuana is what causes the pain that creates the craving, THAT is an addiction.
The very fact that the concept of "pseudo-addiction" has made it to medical literature is an indication that addiction is poorly defined
Addiction isn't poorly defined. It's poorly understood, and precisely those things which look like addictions which are not are what medical literature has attempted to define in an attempt to clarify the problem.
We need better testing for what is addiction as opposed to people craving proper treatment for their mental or physical pain.
No we don't, we just need better understanding of the source of the pain in question. But while we're at it I want a unicorn too since unrealistic and highly subjective wishes are the top of the list today.
Sure for your made up definition of noon maybe. Unfortunately the rest of us speak English, and don't speak 1950s western movies.
Statistically, two of the most dangerous times of year come the week after each of the time changes as people's body-clocks don't match up with the time of day.
Err no, literally the body clock has nothing to do with it and it's down to stress related issues due to clocks not matching up. This directly leads to heart attacks and accidents due to rush related mistakes.
I understand that there are concerns for children standing in the dark waiting for buses.
I don't. I may have in the odd days in the 1800s when the union of lantern lighters took a strike day but Nicholas Tesla fixed that problem for us.
So while summer time all year round sounds pleasant, it's not.
Why not? None of your post so far backs up this statement. What is your definition of pleasant? It sure as heck isn't ensuring that the sun is at it's highest point at 1200. Pretty much no one can give a shit about that, other than owners of sundial ornaments.
Indeed winter time is when noon means "Sun at highest peak".
Horseshit dependent only only one specific location in each timezone and not at all relevant for large portions of the population.
What makes your timezone so special? Timezones are nothing more than an arbitrary construct linking diverse groups to a common temporal map. We are describing a problem that extends across the entire basis of time for a given zone, so adjusting that timezone is not only the correct solution, but it's also the only feasible one and the only one which actually makes sense.
Stop making time something it's not. It's arbitrary by location.
Now that they have Embraced Linux, now they are Extending Linux. I wonder what's next. ;)
Silly quotes by people who don't understand strategies or how they apply?
Extending their own product into a competitors?
I assume you're chasing cheap laughs with your EEE comment and aren't silly enough to think that this is a viable strategy given what they are doing, what product they are targetting or how they are currently operating. If you think it is, then you should go back to the start and re-read how EEE works.
This. I always laugh at videos of newly born animals falling over trying to take their first steps. And then cry a bit when I realise the years it takes us the dominant species to achieve the same feat.
Who cares. It's just the Chinese. I'd be more worried about local western made phones made with the approval of a TLA who actually has a meaningful impact on your life.
If you think headphone jacks and notches are the opinion of one guy, you haven't been paying attention to the very site in which you're currently posting your ignorance.
Because it's easier to change the standard measure than implement a decision separately on thousands of independent entities. Mind you I'm sure you're just in the pocket of the big sign producers.
That's not a problem with the EU. An online poll was conducted, that in no way bound any of the MEPs to vote on what was in front of them. That process is as democratic as any functioning Western democracy.