Who actually uses these invasive pieces of technological garbage?
Based on the estimates, 10% of the population of the USA. Based on household size 1/4 of the households in the USA. (equivalent size anyway, these are spread across the world).
There are no doctors without medical degrees. There are no lawyers without law degrees. Yet somehow, tech seems to be the one place where a degree is considered near irrelevant (in fact, according to Slashdot, having a degree in computer science may very well disqualify you from professional programming). The reason most often suggested for this difference is that technology isn't as important as medicine or law. Yet this line of thinking has apparently led to the collapse of the US consumer credit system.
You have listed two fields which aren't degree dependent, but rather certification and professional development dependent in some cases with independent exams. Degrees are worthless even in Law and Medicine. There are plenty of people with both degrees who fail to become lawyers and medical practitioners, just as there are people with engineering degrees who are disqualified from engineering and are not allowed to practice as an engineer in many places.
The degree isn't relevant. The professional association and membership is. The IT field doesn't have one mandated.
I have 3 HP machines, one provided for work. All of them came with SSDs. I just went to HP's website and clicked laptop. Page 1 has 20 laptops on it, 18 of which comes with SSDs. This isn't a custom search, just the first thing presented to the user when they go to buy a HP laptop.
So next time remember: slashmydots doesn't believe in paying for a machine with SSDs.
Windows 10 runs a small Defender scan EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU LOG IN!
No it doesn't. It runs a maintenance activity that doesn't take anywhere near as long as a scan on a daily basis. You don't need to be logged in, and you can set this activity for some random time like 3am. Especially on a laptop you should never see windows defender doing manual scan or maintenance activities on a default install of windows 10, you will only get a notification that a scan completed once a week.
Windows defender *does* scan after a windows update.
You don't need a government service, just some consumer protection laws that prevent the very one sided contracts that are currently in place. Arbitrary cut-off without specifying the performance of a contract is illegal in most common-law countries.
Why do I get the impression Verizon misrepresented its coverage.
It didn't. The industry is absolutely full of behind the scenes deals sharing towers and coverage as you go. It happens all over the world, just because you're with Vodafone and your phone doesn't say it's roaming doesn't mean you're connected to a Vodafone tower. e.g. We were doing a proof of concept with Vodafone a while back and found a setting in the infrastructure that was blocking it from working properly. 2 towers were fixed within a day, the 3rd tower in our coverage zone took a week to fix because it was owned and operated by someone else. This was in a city, not in a rural area.
I also remember a furore in Australia many years ago when the cheap providers came on the scene leasing bandwidth on the major telecom companies. They would advertise who their wireless landlord was, presumably as a way of saying, "Look you've never heard of us but we have the same coverage as Optus because we use their towers!". Then people found that they only leased the towers in the city and while their city coverage was great, as soon as they stepped outside they had no signal.
What happens behind the scenes is irrelevant, the coverage is there. But the real dick move is Verizon cutting people off arbitrarily based on how much it costs them rather than specifying performance in a contract that people get to adhere to.
Public key? Trust? Keys changing? What the hell are you talking about man, I just want my toy to update!
Sincerely The vast majority of users who have no idea if you were even speaking english in your post, let alone what a public key is or what it has to do with updating software.
Since the account here was used for defamation, and one could infer the accounts were linked (by the copying of the under-picture bio section on the site straight to slashdot) copyright violations were committed.
Canada has better relations with Cuba it's unlikely the Cuban government is behind this
Thought experiment: Why would the Cuban government do this?
1. Get rid of diplomats? They can do that anytime they want. 2. Don't like the renewed ties with USA? They can do this anytime they want. 3. Don't like US politics interfering? They are a dictatorship, also see 1.
Initially a lot of people claimed Cuba, but it just makes no sense.
When you enter or leave most countries, they have the opportunity to take any phone or similar device and not return it for an unspecified amount of time. They are supposed to only do this for terrorism, but they routinely do it for other reasons.
You really are living in a world of fear aren't you. Firstly "most countries" isn't even remotely true. Secondly the odds of it happening to you are right down there with the odds of getting hit with a terrorist attack. Even the overaggressive countries like the USA, China, and Russia process many 10s of thousands of people daily and the number who are held and have all their belongings taken can be counted on one hand the world over.
If you're going to North Korea, possibly. If you're transiting Iran with a passport that has a stamp from Israel, probably. But leaving your device at home because it may get taken is something so remote that it doesn't even register on any sane persons's radar when they pack their things.
They have the cool stamps on their passport which ups the interest of various governments.
No, it only ups the interest of the occasional stupid border guard. Admittedly though I think there's a high IQ cutoff for the ones in the USA (fond memories of explaining to the USA border guard the concept of a "courtesy hotel" when he saw a scary Arab looking stamp in my passport with stamp in and out on the same day). No the only country interested in this kind of crap is the USA, even Iraq et al have stopped caring when they released the only countries that they actively hate stopped stamping passports a long time ago.
The easiest way to block this stupidity...
Is to educate people about risk so they stop giving shitty advice online.
If you work for a law firm or other company that takes security seriously, they might even give you a separate phone just for your vacation, let alone a work trip.
Yes. You can count that number of companies on one hand as well. Most are quite content with just keeping devices encrypted. This goes for companies with military contracts, and even members of defence research organisations.
It costs me $3 / minute to talk on my cell when I'm out of country.
It would cost you nothing to use WhatsApp at the local McDonalds in whatever country you're in. Or any other beat down restaurant.
The question is if Google identifies a phone based on SIM information.
The answer is no, it ties the device ID to your Google account. You can do whatever you want with the SIM including throw it away. The modern smartphone ties nothing to it, not even WhatsApp complains when you change your number despite needing one to sign up for the service.
I sort of disagree with the last part of your statement. A chef rarely does 20 dishes by himself in a good restaurant and the synergies of common orders makes things quite easy. I find it no more difficult cooking steaks for 20 than I do cooking steaks for myself, even with different requests for how well done they are.
But back on point of cost, I see often someone complain that they tried cooking at home once and it cost them a fortune. Key is once, and what they are missing is the left over raw ingredients. If I go out right now and buy all the ingredients for a chicken caesar salad I would wonder why I didn't just go to a restaurant. But I would need to ignore the fact that I likely have enough for a normal salad for the following 2 days, not to mention a complete breakfast of bacon, eggs, herbs spices and cheese to make a wicked omelette for the entire weekend, some olive oil which will likely be used in every other meal for the following 2 months, etc etc.
I didn't say it doesn't happen, it definitely does and a bit too much. I said confirmation bias (actually observer bias, I got that one wrong) puts them towards the top of your attention because of how stupid the act actually is.
There are some people who are a bit better at advertising (actually Facebook seems to be better at this than Google. e.g. looking at a review for kitchen knives resulted in adverts for kitchen knives in Facebook. )
A contactless card can be dropped in the street, and where I live, you can spend $50 on it.
Where I live you can spend 25eur on it, and every 5th time it asks for a PIN anyway, and if you declare the card lost or stolen you're liable for zero.
- Wireless charging isn't about saving 2 seconds, it's about not fucking around with cables. - Better screens have opened up a world of VR applications in the past few years. - Apple Pay (or any pay really)... well I often don't carry my wallet around anymore.
Speaking of real-world I'm still trying to figure out if my Galaxy S7 is actually faster than my S5. I mean they seem about the same in my world. Mind you I don't spend much time diving the 3D web, playing FPS games, mining bitcoins, or doing any of that other stuff on my phone either.
Actually I'd be far more interested seeing this chip in a different device. I wonder how it would perform in a little pocket computer with a full OS.
Which Mandarins are those? The orange fruit? The book? Or are you talking about China where iOS enjoys one of the lowest smartphone market shares in the world?
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Who actually uses these invasive pieces of technological garbage?
Based on the estimates, 10% of the population of the USA. Based on household size 1/4 of the households in the USA. (equivalent size anyway, these are spread across the world).
There are no doctors without medical degrees. There are no lawyers without law degrees. Yet somehow, tech seems to be the one place where a degree is considered near irrelevant (in fact, according to Slashdot, having a degree in computer science may very well disqualify you from professional programming). The reason most often suggested for this difference is that technology isn't as important as medicine or law. Yet this line of thinking has apparently led to the collapse of the US consumer credit system.
You have listed two fields which aren't degree dependent, but rather certification and professional development dependent in some cases with independent exams. Degrees are worthless even in Law and Medicine. There are plenty of people with both degrees who fail to become lawyers and medical practitioners, just as there are people with engineering degrees who are disqualified from engineering and are not allowed to practice as an engineer in many places.
The degree isn't relevant. The professional association and membership is. The IT field doesn't have one mandated.
I have 3 HP machines, one provided for work. All of them came with SSDs. I just went to HP's website and clicked laptop. Page 1 has 20 laptops on it, 18 of which comes with SSDs. This isn't a custom search, just the first thing presented to the user when they go to buy a HP laptop.
So next time remember: slashmydots doesn't believe in paying for a machine with SSDs.
Windows 10 runs a small Defender scan EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU LOG IN!
No it doesn't. It runs a maintenance activity that doesn't take anywhere near as long as a scan on a daily basis. You don't need to be logged in, and you can set this activity for some random time like 3am. Especially on a laptop you should never see windows defender doing manual scan or maintenance activities on a default install of windows 10, you will only get a notification that a scan completed once a week.
Windows defender *does* scan after a windows update.
Or you could join the 20th century and enact some consumer protection laws that prevent stupidly one sided contracts and forced arbitration.
You don't need a government service, just some consumer protection laws that prevent the very one sided contracts that are currently in place. Arbitrary cut-off without specifying the performance of a contract is illegal in most common-law countries.
Better question: Why would you sign up with a cell phone carrier that doesn't operate where you live
But they do, their background details should not at all be relevant to the customer.
Why do I get the impression Verizon misrepresented its coverage.
It didn't. The industry is absolutely full of behind the scenes deals sharing towers and coverage as you go. It happens all over the world, just because you're with Vodafone and your phone doesn't say it's roaming doesn't mean you're connected to a Vodafone tower. e.g. We were doing a proof of concept with Vodafone a while back and found a setting in the infrastructure that was blocking it from working properly. 2 towers were fixed within a day, the 3rd tower in our coverage zone took a week to fix because it was owned and operated by someone else. This was in a city, not in a rural area.
I also remember a furore in Australia many years ago when the cheap providers came on the scene leasing bandwidth on the major telecom companies. They would advertise who their wireless landlord was, presumably as a way of saying, "Look you've never heard of us but we have the same coverage as Optus because we use their towers!". Then people found that they only leased the towers in the city and while their city coverage was great, as soon as they stepped outside they had no signal.
What happens behind the scenes is irrelevant, the coverage is there. But the real dick move is Verizon cutting people off arbitrarily based on how much it costs them rather than specifying performance in a contract that people get to adhere to.
Public key? Trust? Keys changing? What the hell are you talking about man, I just want my toy to update!
Sincerely
The vast majority of users who have no idea if you were even speaking english in your post, let alone what a public key is or what it has to do with updating software.
Since the account here was used for defamation, and one could infer the accounts were linked (by the copying of the under-picture bio section on the site straight to slashdot) copyright violations were committed.
Err no, that's not how copyright violations work.
How about the 4th sentence of the quoted text in the summary?
How about reading past a headline before commenting?
Canada has better relations with Cuba it's unlikely the Cuban government is behind this
Thought experiment: Why would the Cuban government do this?
1. Get rid of diplomats? They can do that anytime they want.
2. Don't like the renewed ties with USA? They can do this anytime they want.
3. Don't like US politics interfering? They are a dictatorship, also see 1.
Initially a lot of people claimed Cuba, but it just makes no sense.
a data breach, incompetence in reporting post event, and a healthy dose of insider trading, it now appears they were violating EU law as well.
I hope Equifax doesn't go under too quickly. It's providing a lot of entertainment right now.
So you have a protectionist government and you think it may be easier to kill off the companies rather than get a law changed? Good luck with that.
When you enter or leave most countries, they have the opportunity to take any phone or similar device and not return it for an unspecified amount of time. They are supposed to only do this for terrorism, but they routinely do it for other reasons.
You really are living in a world of fear aren't you. Firstly "most countries" isn't even remotely true. Secondly the odds of it happening to you are right down there with the odds of getting hit with a terrorist attack. Even the overaggressive countries like the USA, China, and Russia process many 10s of thousands of people daily and the number who are held and have all their belongings taken can be counted on one hand the world over.
If you're going to North Korea, possibly. If you're transiting Iran with a passport that has a stamp from Israel, probably. But leaving your device at home because it may get taken is something so remote that it doesn't even register on any sane persons's radar when they pack their things.
They have the cool stamps on their passport which ups the interest of various governments.
No, it only ups the interest of the occasional stupid border guard. Admittedly though I think there's a high IQ cutoff for the ones in the USA (fond memories of explaining to the USA border guard the concept of a "courtesy hotel" when he saw a scary Arab looking stamp in my passport with stamp in and out on the same day). No the only country interested in this kind of crap is the USA, even Iraq et al have stopped caring when they released the only countries that they actively hate stopped stamping passports a long time ago.
The easiest way to block this stupidity...
Is to educate people about risk so they stop giving shitty advice online.
If you work for a law firm or other company that takes security seriously, they might even give you a separate phone just for your vacation, let alone a work trip.
Yes. You can count that number of companies on one hand as well. Most are quite content with just keeping devices encrypted. This goes for companies with military contracts, and even members of defence research organisations.
When I'm on vacation, I use my smart phone only where I have wifi.
So you use your phone then, feel free to vacation for more than 2 months.
It costs me $3 / minute to talk on my cell when I'm out of country.
It would cost you nothing to use WhatsApp at the local McDonalds in whatever country you're in. Or any other beat down restaurant.
The question is if Google identifies a phone based on SIM information.
The answer is no, it ties the device ID to your Google account. You can do whatever you want with the SIM including throw it away. The modern smartphone ties nothing to it, not even WhatsApp complains when you change your number despite needing one to sign up for the service.
I sort of disagree with the last part of your statement. A chef rarely does 20 dishes by himself in a good restaurant and the synergies of common orders makes things quite easy. I find it no more difficult cooking steaks for 20 than I do cooking steaks for myself, even with different requests for how well done they are.
But back on point of cost, I see often someone complain that they tried cooking at home once and it cost them a fortune. Key is once, and what they are missing is the left over raw ingredients. If I go out right now and buy all the ingredients for a chicken caesar salad I would wonder why I didn't just go to a restaurant. But I would need to ignore the fact that I likely have enough for a normal salad for the following 2 days, not to mention a complete breakfast of bacon, eggs, herbs spices and cheese to make a wicked omelette for the entire weekend, some olive oil which will likely be used in every other meal for the following 2 months, etc etc.
I wonder if the GP tried cooking fresh ... once.
No thanks. I don't pine for the cesspool that was the internet of old.
Now punch the damn monkey.
essentially impossible
Really? Because quite frankly we haven't even tried. There's be no serious law passed and no serious enforcement action in place.
I didn't say it doesn't happen, it definitely does and a bit too much. I said confirmation bias (actually observer bias, I got that one wrong) puts them towards the top of your attention because of how stupid the act actually is.
There are some people who are a bit better at advertising (actually Facebook seems to be better at this than Google. e.g. looking at a review for kitchen knives resulted in adverts for kitchen knives in Facebook. )
A contactless card can be dropped in the street, and where I live, you can spend $50 on it.
Where I live you can spend 25eur on it, and every 5th time it asks for a PIN anyway, and if you declare the card lost or stolen you're liable for zero.
I think you're missing the applications.
- Wireless charging isn't about saving 2 seconds, it's about not fucking around with cables.
- Better screens have opened up a world of VR applications in the past few years.
- Apple Pay (or any pay really)... well I often don't carry my wallet around anymore.
real-world metric
Speaking of real-world I'm still trying to figure out if my Galaxy S7 is actually faster than my S5. I mean they seem about the same in my world. Mind you I don't spend much time diving the 3D web, playing FPS games, mining bitcoins, or doing any of that other stuff on my phone either.
Actually I'd be far more interested seeing this chip in a different device. I wonder how it would perform in a little pocket computer with a full OS.
Which Mandarins are those? The orange fruit? The book? Or are you talking about China where iOS enjoys one of the lowest smartphone market shares in the world?
Actually I think you'll find most people don't give a shit.
Hurrah I can switch to Safari in 0.1seconds faster than previously. Whoopdefuckingdo. It's a phone.