Most of the interesting peripherals in a cellphone are connected via very small ribbon cables
Which have all the same problems as multi-layered PCBs. The only people who can really verify what a switch is doing are experts with some incredibly decent tools.
1. No it's not. We're not in the realm of actually verifying that the devices are powered down / disconnected on a modern circuit board. You'll still relying on software to tell you that it's been disabled.
2. The same update problem still applies to the hardware switch because of 1.
3. The same malware problem still applies because of 1.
There is a lot of value to hardware switches.
Not on a device which makes it impossible to verify the function and actual operation of a switch. That means exposed solder legs and exposed terminals on the target device of the switch. Neither of these are really 100% possible in a modern phone, although someone taking the phone and carefully x-raying every layer on the circuit board could do that.
If they do that, then that's absolutely great and reason alone to switch to Kaspersky.
Yes and no. Unless the code is completely open to review, compilation, and distribution all at the same point a code review doesn't really prove diddely squat since it's practically impossible to compare binaries to source code.
To put this into perspective, 2 people could live in the middle and work at distant opposite sides of the country and still quite comfortably cycle to work within the hour. Or a more likely scenario: People can just walk to work. The country is tiny.
Whenever I suggest giving people choices might be an option, I inevitably get a "UR FORCING ME TO WALK!" rant, which in all honesty, is similar to your own.
People in general don't understand systems that are outside their own personal experience. I frequently talk to American colleagues and they are all dumbfounded when I tell them that I only ever drive to work, and only because it's 40km. I have never driven my car into my own city, I rarely do the shopping with it even when its belting down rain, and short of driving to another country I also don't take it anywhere, and even I often take a train.
Cities are designed in ways that suit certain modes of transport. My local supermarket is 600m away. The next one (much larger one) is 1.1km in the other direction. I typically go to the much larger one and have the choice of walking (1.3km ~13min) / cycling (1.3km ~5min) or driving (4km ~10min). To get in the city centre I could drive which takes about 35min, or I could cycle which takes about 20min.
This doesn't make sense to most Americans as American cities are designed primarily with the car in mind. Public transport, bike ways, and general city planning to prevent people having to make long trips for basic needs comes a distant second to big roads, highways, and plenty of available parking in every direction.
Errr no. Massive taxation disincentives it but it's not "how it's managed". They simply refuse registration beyond a certain number. That's how it is managed.
I assume the next step will be to just ban car dealerships and imports, because the taxation hasn't stopped people buying cars, even if the taxes quadruple the price.
No need. People will still need to replace existing cars, there isn't a ban on cars, just a ban on increase. The taxation will remain high or maybe even go higher to further incentivise people not to replace their old car and thus hand back the registration.
A more progressive government would look how desperate people are to buy cars and just figure out how to invest that money into building UP.
No. A progressive government realises that if your entire country is less than 25km wide there's no reason for anyone to own a car at all and would draft up a plan to slowly abolish them completely in favour of a well built public transport network.
even force them to buy electric cars so the pollution factor is nil
Pollution is generally not the concern in a country where it is impossible to expand road structure without destroying the city. More cars are.
Your simple decade old solution would crash the system when it runs out of HDD space. Volume Shadow copy has been available for Windows for a decade too, but it doesn't solve the problem and is not better than a backup (actually in some scenarios it is worse).
Which user owns a folder is irrelevant on an application level permission. You could run the application as administrator and it wouldn't make a difference. Defender will prevent the *process* from writing to the folder unless it's white listed.
E.g. You may want MS Word and Libre Office Writer to access your folder called "word documents", and absolutely no other application. That won't stop you copying, pasting, moving, etc. But it will stop totallynotransomware-actuallynakedbritney.jpg.scr.exe from accessing and encrypting its contents.
So the user will be asked a number of times (probably once per appli / folder) if they agree to allow that appli to access that folder, then when they see the fake "Adobe something wants to access your folder" they will be used to automatically Yes it.
You know Windows 10 did away with pretty much all of that, which is why Chrome can't even set itself as a default browser anymore and instead serves up instructions for the user to change it via control panel.
If you're going for an either or case then it doesn't matter that the advertiser isn't paying the electricity cost. They aren't paying you for ad impressions either. They generate themselves.
In the game of adverts vs money from using your electricity it is still far more profitable to stick to adverts.
It's always, always the most important election in our lifetime
Well of course it is. The basis of that is: Previous candidate was mediocre, didn't cause a nuclear winter, however we don't know what the next candidate will do. That's why this is the most important election.
Remember Clinton is a war monomerer, or so I was told prior to the election.
Private schools have not solved any of American's education problems, actually they did a good job of contributing to it. The private industry is definitely not best place to provide basic education.
Reform the governmental public school system. You can start by cutting out 90% of the worthless political crap.
1) Pointless, education materials are available. If there are people who can't afford them than the focus should be on reducing the problem of affordability: e.g. schools owning the books rather than people buying them, and not always needing to use the latest and greatest edition which contains only one spelling mistake difference from the previous release.
2) A rich private school paying lots of money to teachers which can only be afforded by rich kids who are already well off and don't have a problem with their education? Not a good investment. It's like upgrading a Ferrari F40 to an F50 as a response to poor people in the slums not having access to a bus.
3) Segregating public and private is a stupid approach (and arguably much of what is wrong with American education as it is). Instead tier the schooling system in public.
4) Solved by tiered schooling, especially when you need to maintain a grade to not drop down to the next school.
No, it's a problem in multiple sides. parents, culture, school makeup (poor people in poor school get poor funding), teacher education quality (focus on learning to deal with students without knowing the subject matter), teacher overal quality (low paid job doesn't attract talent), and my own personal favourite, politics that could make the most seasoned union representative blush.
There's no single thing that can fix education. It is broken in so many different ways.
No Bill Gates is a visionary! He correctly identified the internet as a worthless fad back in the day. Today I read the internet described as "a bottomless well of available grievance." The Big G called it back in 1995.
The problem is those who are driven to succeed can take the same drive in another field and earn double the income.
Not quite. A lot of problem is in the education system that allows people to become teachers. It tends to favour those too dumb to do anything else.
When my wife became a teacher she did so with a post grad diploma in education. She was ridiculed at her school because she didn't do a "full teaching degree (Bachelor of Education)". She was ridiculed by idiots teaching things they didn't understand, but confident in the fact that they were able to impart their poor understanding on the next generation.
Fast forward a few years and she breezed through a Masters of Mathematics with almost perfect marks and became the head of a department full of "bachelors of education" who failed their masters in the field and were left picking their nose and scratching their arses.
Worse still are the idiots who take the easy road and do a major in education and a minor in the easiest subject they can think of (typically English or some other subject so over populated that they are unable to find a job).
They all have the same flaws since they all use the same software, and therefore have the same risk.
Only if the insurance only covers the driver while auto-pilot is engaged.
I'm actually wondering if it is going to be the complete opposite where the insurance rate is not only determined by the driver history and traits, but also vehicle diagnostics. E.g. insurance rates go up if you accelerate heavily, break heavily, frequently suddenly turn the steering wheel, leave your hands off the wheel with auto pilot engaged for too long, go around corners too fast, speed, etc.
Reminds me of our one of the company cars I had. It contained sensors that monitored acceleration when going into a corner and automatically SMS'd your boss if you're not taking corners gently enough. It did cut out nearly all accidents though.
Slashdot Mirror
What industry is that?
Fuck me, it's not like the industry isn't written in the title bar of your browser right now!
Most of the interesting peripherals in a cellphone are connected via very small ribbon cables
Which have all the same problems as multi-layered PCBs. The only people who can really verify what a switch is doing are experts with some incredibly decent tools.
1. No it's not. We're not in the realm of actually verifying that the devices are powered down / disconnected on a modern circuit board. You'll still relying on software to tell you that it's been disabled.
2. The same update problem still applies to the hardware switch because of 1.
3. The same malware problem still applies because of 1.
There is a lot of value to hardware switches.
Not on a device which makes it impossible to verify the function and actual operation of a switch. That means exposed solder legs and exposed terminals on the target device of the switch. Neither of these are really 100% possible in a modern phone, although someone taking the phone and carefully x-raying every layer on the circuit board could do that.
Anyone bought one and found something unique in it?
It ships with a black blemish at the top of the screen making it look defective out of the box.
If they do that, then that's absolutely great and reason alone to switch to Kaspersky.
Yes and no. Unless the code is completely open to review, compilation, and distribution all at the same point a code review doesn't really prove diddely squat since it's practically impossible to compare binaries to source code.
Oh how amazing would it be if Trump got impeached for violating the federal criminal code by slandering a Russian.
Won't happen (likely can't happen).
To put this into perspective, 2 people could live in the middle and work at distant opposite sides of the country and still quite comfortably cycle to work within the hour. Or a more likely scenario: People can just walk to work. The country is tiny.
Whenever I suggest giving people choices might be an option, I inevitably get a "UR FORCING ME TO WALK!" rant, which in all honesty, is similar to your own.
People in general don't understand systems that are outside their own personal experience. I frequently talk to American colleagues and they are all dumbfounded when I tell them that I only ever drive to work, and only because it's 40km. I have never driven my car into my own city, I rarely do the shopping with it even when its belting down rain, and short of driving to another country I also don't take it anywhere, and even I often take a train.
Cities are designed in ways that suit certain modes of transport. My local supermarket is 600m away. The next one (much larger one) is 1.1km in the other direction. I typically go to the much larger one and have the choice of walking (1.3km ~13min) / cycling (1.3km ~5min) or driving (4km ~10min). To get in the city centre I could drive which takes about 35min, or I could cycle which takes about 20min.
This doesn't make sense to most Americans as American cities are designed primarily with the car in mind. Public transport, bike ways, and general city planning to prevent people having to make long trips for basic needs comes a distant second to big roads, highways, and plenty of available parking in every direction.
Massive taxation on cars is how it is managed:
Errr no. Massive taxation disincentives it but it's not "how it's managed". They simply refuse registration beyond a certain number. That's how it is managed.
I assume the next step will be to just ban car dealerships and imports, because the taxation hasn't stopped people buying cars, even if the taxes quadruple the price.
No need. People will still need to replace existing cars, there isn't a ban on cars, just a ban on increase. The taxation will remain high or maybe even go higher to further incentivise people not to replace their old car and thus hand back the registration.
A more progressive government would look how desperate people are to buy cars and just figure out how to invest that money into building UP.
No. A progressive government realises that if your entire country is less than 25km wide there's no reason for anyone to own a car at all and would draft up a plan to slowly abolish them completely in favour of a well built public transport network.
even force them to buy electric cars so the pollution factor is nil
Pollution is generally not the concern in a country where it is impossible to expand road structure without destroying the city. More cars are.
How so? Oracle closing the source on a feature complete file system really affected absolutely no one. Heck most of ZFS adoption occurred after this.
Your simple decade old solution would crash the system when it runs out of HDD space. Volume Shadow copy has been available for Windows for a decade too, but it doesn't solve the problem and is not better than a backup (actually in some scenarios it is worse).
Which user owns a folder is irrelevant on an application level permission. You could run the application as administrator and it wouldn't make a difference. Defender will prevent the *process* from writing to the folder unless it's white listed.
E.g. You may want MS Word and Libre Office Writer to access your folder called "word documents", and absolutely no other application. That won't stop you copying, pasting, moving, etc. But it will stop totallynotransomware-actuallynakedbritney.jpg.scr.exe from accessing and encrypting its contents.
How does this work?
If only summaries had clickable links...
So the user will be asked a number of times (probably once per appli / folder) if they agree to allow that appli to access that folder, then when they see the fake "Adobe something wants to access your folder" they will be used to automatically Yes it.
You know Windows 10 did away with pretty much all of that, which is why Chrome can't even set itself as a default browser anymore and instead serves up instructions for the user to change it via control panel.
There is no more "simple yes".
No just private schools in general. As soon as you place a profit motive on education you get a worse outcome than an well managed non profit system.
But as you just pointed out the way a school run is far more important. However the "on better average" is still up for debate.
If you're going for an either or case then it doesn't matter that the advertiser isn't paying the electricity cost. They aren't paying you for ad impressions either. They generate themselves.
In the game of adverts vs money from using your electricity it is still far more profitable to stick to adverts.
It's always, always the most important election in our lifetime
Well of course it is. The basis of that is: Previous candidate was mediocre, didn't cause a nuclear winter, however we don't know what the next candidate will do. That's why this is the most important election.
Remember Clinton is a war monomerer, or so I was told prior to the election.
Private schools have not solved any of American's education problems, actually they did a good job of contributing to it. The private industry is definitely not best place to provide basic education.
Reform the governmental public school system. You can start by cutting out 90% of the worthless political crap.
1) Pointless, education materials are available. If there are people who can't afford them than the focus should be on reducing the problem of affordability: e.g. schools owning the books rather than people buying them, and not always needing to use the latest and greatest edition which contains only one spelling mistake difference from the previous release.
2) A rich private school paying lots of money to teachers which can only be afforded by rich kids who are already well off and don't have a problem with their education? Not a good investment. It's like upgrading a Ferrari F40 to an F50 as a response to poor people in the slums not having access to a bus.
3) Segregating public and private is a stupid approach (and arguably much of what is wrong with American education as it is). Instead tier the schooling system in public.
4) Solved by tiered schooling, especially when you need to maintain a grade to not drop down to the next school.
No, it's a problem in multiple sides. parents, culture, school makeup (poor people in poor school get poor funding), teacher education quality (focus on learning to deal with students without knowing the subject matter), teacher overal quality (low paid job doesn't attract talent), and my own personal favourite, politics that could make the most seasoned union representative blush.
There's no single thing that can fix education. It is broken in so many different ways.
No Bill Gates is a visionary! He correctly identified the internet as a worthless fad back in the day. Today I read the internet described as "a bottomless well of available grievance."
The Big G called it back in 1995.
The problem is those who are driven to succeed can take the same drive in another field and earn double the income.
Not quite. A lot of problem is in the education system that allows people to become teachers. It tends to favour those too dumb to do anything else.
When my wife became a teacher she did so with a post grad diploma in education. She was ridiculed at her school because she didn't do a "full teaching degree (Bachelor of Education)". She was ridiculed by idiots teaching things they didn't understand, but confident in the fact that they were able to impart their poor understanding on the next generation.
Fast forward a few years and she breezed through a Masters of Mathematics with almost perfect marks and became the head of a department full of "bachelors of education" who failed their masters in the field and were left picking their nose and scratching their arses.
Worse still are the idiots who take the easy road and do a major in education and a minor in the easiest subject they can think of (typically English or some other subject so over populated that they are unable to find a job).
This is nothing more than FakeNews designed to cover the fact that you've had mediocre AIs posing as Slashdot editors for years.
I'm not buying it.
Your whole post boils down to the false claim
The claim is only false outside of the industry and backed up by 4 key points you see coming up over and over again.
But I repeat myself: Oh I see now you don't actually work in the industry. ... Wait you're not the OP, well then clearly there's more of you.
Forget fossil fuels, won't someone think of my laptop battery!
They all have the same flaws since they all use the same software, and therefore have the same risk.
Only if the insurance only covers the driver while auto-pilot is engaged.
I'm actually wondering if it is going to be the complete opposite where the insurance rate is not only determined by the driver history and traits, but also vehicle diagnostics. E.g. insurance rates go up if you accelerate heavily, break heavily, frequently suddenly turn the steering wheel, leave your hands off the wheel with auto pilot engaged for too long, go around corners too fast, speed, etc.
Reminds me of our one of the company cars I had. It contained sensors that monitored acceleration when going into a corner and automatically SMS'd your boss if you're not taking corners gently enough. It did cut out nearly all accidents though.