Well, they did rise to power peacefully, and might even have remained so had they not been so focused on the whole "genocide" thing.
Yep, except for a never ending string of violent rallies, attacks on the government, special powers introduced to defend pro-nazi functions from dissidence, and the arson attack on parliament with a few people sentenced to death here and there. Other than those *minor* details the nazis were perfectly lovely people until they gassed Jews.
Take a history lesson and also apply a bit of logic. When in history has a disenfranchised nation peacefully handed over absolute power to a government.
Just about any other thing we now use. Seriously this is an anti-vision, anti-progress piece that could be applied to any technology before it became commonplace.
This has no place on a tech site where people are a bit more "progress friendly" .
They're a racial group, and race is a protected class.
If your FTP server requires "effort" to keep it secure and updated then you're doing it wrong. If compromise of your FTP server of a collection of old internet garbage can have a negative security impact on your other operations... well you're doing that wrong too.
Poorly written C
Was never served to a client in an exploitable manner and has nothing to do with network security on the service level which is the discussion you started providing you keep the service up to date, which... see above.
What? Who modded this up? The core discussion here is about content, not services. There's no reason an FTP site or a HTTP server can't keep serving the same content without security risks, especially given that the timescale we are talking about pre-dates poorly written PHP and similar garbage.
VMs? Programs in many fields are starting to be interlinked and request multiple programs to work on the same file at once. Clicking the edit file on a 50mpxl image in Lightroom will fire it up in Photoshop, and half of that RAM capacity is gone. God forbid you're editing out a detail of a panorama without the panorama app being closed first.
It's not that hard to consume more than 16GB of RAM without any VMs running these days. Complicated calculations have been reduced to single clicks.
Unlike you, I prefer to know wtf is going on with the car. Being stuck on the side of the road with nothing but an idiot light telling me to call the dealer does not help.
You are just like me. I too like to know what's going on in the car. But none of that needs to happen on the dash and take up visual space while driving.
This is especially true when an oil pressure gauge could've told me something was wrong before catastrophic failure.
Funny since most cars don't come with one. And that's kind of the point I was making. Dash space is limited, other spaces in cars are not. An alarm to show that something is wrong and prompt you to pull over and diagnose the problem with information that is better served from somewhere other than on the dash while in transit is far less limiting.
Auto climate control is a pain if I just want a small amount of the coldest air possible during the summer. Other times, the fan is either too fast, too slow, or just too loud when I start the car because it's trying to rapidly adjust temp. As a result, half the time it's in manual mode because I've turned the fan down.
So you have a problem with the specific implementation not the idea itself. That doesn't invalidate the concept.
Most of these touchscreen interfaces are terribly programmed
Now this along with the rest of your comment, we are fully in agreement.
What sane person would WANT that in the first place???
You think the only application for locks is one where you are in complete control. That isn't remotely true. Who would want this? Anyone who's main course of business relies on handing a stranger a key. The ability to control temporary locks digitally is far more security than a fixed easily copyable mechanism that can't be easily changed and is given to random strangers.
Based on airbnb's stats alone I see 50 million applications.
No but everything else on the device is computer science and bugs happen. A firmware update sounds preferable to having to send it back to vendor every time there's a problem. A firmware update sounds preferable to a major security flaw having been discovered.
The problem is you're generalising. Maybe this firmware update was to change the LED to blink when unlocking. Maybe it was for something far more critical like an identified bug that makes it open by itself randomly that wasn't caught in testing.
You're assuming security is black and white. Most locks aren't very secure and can easily be bypassed with a few seconds of lock picking. The goal is not to make something secure, but rather to make something secure enough.
In a case where you need to hand over keys to strangers, an internet connection is by far not the biggest problem in the scenario.
Now would I want an internet connected remotely unlockable safe for all my wealth? No.
Yet another data point to underpin the motto "Never allow any data or access or service that you value to be controlled by Somebody Else's Computer"
Unless they are better at controlling it by you. Quite frankly if history has proven anything it's that "your own computer" is by far the worst place for the data of the majority of people and even many major companies.
Having to "fix" something is a failure, regardless of who performs the fix.
So by your standards consumer computers pretty much have a 100% failure rate. Also not differentiating who performs a fix is stupid and pointless from an analysis point of view. If I can fix something by doing a factory reset there's orders of magnitude less effect on me than if I have to RMA something, not to mention the fact that there's also a good chance it was user error in the first place.
The features are irrelevant. With ~500 players online at a time what are the odds of finding someone? This was more relevant when 200000 people were playing.
To their credit they have ignited the fire in the hearts of a whole 18000 fans this weekend according to the status.
What set of instructions to start a snipping tool works on all supported Windows versions (including versions after the deprecation of MSPaint)
Windows key + "sni" + return. It is universal across any Windows version that isn't a massive security problem and shouldn't be in active use.
Regardless of how well this works, it is better and far more consistent than relying on apps to reinvent every frigging wheel.
all supported OS X/macOS versions, and all major X11/Linux distributions?
Who cares? No seriously who does? There has never been a cross OS requirement for any end user functionality. It sure as hell won't be improved by a rarely used browser failing in a very busy market place.
one in Firefox would work on all major desktop operating systems
You're assuming a lot about how it will work, what it will do, and just plain ignoring the fact that the odds of you finding a computer with Firefox on it at random that you don't control are lower than your requirement to have a consistent method of doing this across 3 OSes.
Car analogy: Our engineers have found we can make the windscreen 30% larger if we remove the dashboard and AC controls, brilliant!
It's a logical next step. What's the point of a dashboard. You don't need most of what is displayed on it in order to drive a car. Nearly all indicators are required at the start of the trip. The rest could be reduced to audible alarms or eliminated with trip planning. The only important indicator is the speed and that could be put on a HUD in the newer larger windscreen.
The AC, likewise. Last time I touched AC controls was before I bought a car with climate control. Quite an important thing when the human is the controller, but we invented control theory in the 1700s but for some reason it is still a premium product for a car.
So you're not at all even remotely qualified on how the changes between between Gnome 2 and 3 affect new users. You have fallen into exactly the original trap which is to approach the problem from a power user point of view and then speak on the topic of general usability. Not only that you reinforced just how much of a disconnect you have from new users when called out on it.
The ability of users to do basic things has not changed.
You just rendered your entire comment irrelevant as you have demonstrated that you either a) have never used the product, b) are blind or c) just have no idea.
>like a frozen screen or unresponsive touch Had I just bought a device worth a few grand, and the primary interaction interface spontaneously stopped working, I'd bloody well call that a failure.
Interesting insight into corp culture at microsoft, no surprises really though.
If it is something you can fix yourself in software then it's not a hardware failure and should rightfully be excluded. How you define personal failures is quite irrelevant when it comes to product returns for hardware failures, which is what the original discussion was about.
They're more likely to act like the product is everything they expected it to be, sometimes even to the point of telling their friends how great it is.
You're ignoring the reason for ownership. You don't buy a Ferrari to get 500000km out of it. You don't buy a Renault Twingo for the awesome street cred afforded by the 1000cc engine. That doesn't mean you won't recommend it to people for a similar set of reasons.
I am happy with my Surface Pro despite it having been replaced. I will recommend it because the replacement was painless and didn't detract too much from the other uniqueness. The lack of alternatives in the market helps as well (though not with several other vendors creating clones it's a matter of time before that changes).
Despite it's failures and rubbish drivers it still is every bit the device many people think it is. That doesn't mean we've been "taken", quite the opposite. People who feel taken may try to justify the purchase but fail to become repeat customers. In many cases we witness the opposite.
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But it doesn't take up visual real estate while driving -- because the dash is (at least usually) below the hoodline.
Let me quote something relevant:
Our engineers have found we can make the windscreen 30% larger if we remove the dashboard and AC controls, brilliant!
Taking a comment in isolation without the context of what it is replying to does not help a conversation at all, it just wastes everyone's time.
Well, they did rise to power peacefully, and might even have remained so had they not been so focused on the whole "genocide" thing.
Yep, except for a never ending string of violent rallies, attacks on the government, special powers introduced to defend pro-nazi functions from dissidence, and the arson attack on parliament with a few people sentenced to death here and there. Other than those *minor* details the nazis were perfectly lovely people until they gassed Jews.
Take a history lesson and also apply a bit of logic. When in history has a disenfranchised nation peacefully handed over absolute power to a government.
Just about any other thing we now use. Seriously this is an anti-vision, anti-progress piece that could be applied to any technology before it became commonplace.
This has no place on a tech site where people are a bit more "progress friendly" .
However, I think there's value in letting it go
Oh? What's the value in letting hate speech pollute an online gaming chat system? This isn't general chat we're talking about.
They're a racial group, and race is a protected class.
If your FTP server requires "effort" to keep it secure and updated then you're doing it wrong. ... well you're doing that wrong too.
If compromise of your FTP server of a collection of old internet garbage can have a negative security impact on your other operations
Poorly written C
Was never served to a client in an exploitable manner and has nothing to do with network security on the service level which is the discussion you started providing you keep the service up to date, which ... see above.
Public utilities are held to very different standards than private corporations to protect exactly the scenarios you just described.
They're a racial group, and race is a protected class.
Just because someone is part of a race doesn't mean that all criticism of them is racists.
What? Who modded this up? The core discussion here is about content, not services. There's no reason an FTP site or a HTTP server can't keep serving the same content without security risks, especially given that the timescale we are talking about pre-dates poorly written PHP and similar garbage.
VMs? Programs in many fields are starting to be interlinked and request multiple programs to work on the same file at once. Clicking the edit file on a 50mpxl image in Lightroom will fire it up in Photoshop, and half of that RAM capacity is gone. God forbid you're editing out a detail of a panorama without the panorama app being closed first.
It's not that hard to consume more than 16GB of RAM without any VMs running these days. Complicated calculations have been reduced to single clicks.
Ergo keyboard is fragile. Classic Microsoft mouse likewise.
And that wasn't always the case. Emphasis was on the "used to".
Unlike you, I prefer to know wtf is going on with the car. Being stuck on the side of the road with nothing but an idiot light telling me to call the dealer does not help.
You are just like me. I too like to know what's going on in the car. But none of that needs to happen on the dash and take up visual space while driving.
This is especially true when an oil pressure gauge could've told me something was wrong before catastrophic failure.
Funny since most cars don't come with one. And that's kind of the point I was making. Dash space is limited, other spaces in cars are not. An alarm to show that something is wrong and prompt you to pull over and diagnose the problem with information that is better served from somewhere other than on the dash while in transit is far less limiting.
Auto climate control is a pain if I just want a small amount of the coldest air possible during the summer. Other times, the fan is either too fast, too slow, or just too loud when I start the car because it's trying to rapidly adjust temp. As a result, half the time it's in manual mode because I've turned the fan down.
So you have a problem with the specific implementation not the idea itself. That doesn't invalidate the concept.
Most of these touchscreen interfaces are terribly programmed
Now this along with the rest of your comment, we are fully in agreement.
What sane person would WANT that in the first place???
You think the only application for locks is one where you are in complete control. That isn't remotely true. Who would want this? Anyone who's main course of business relies on handing a stranger a key. The ability to control temporary locks digitally is far more security than a fixed easily copyable mechanism that can't be easily changed and is given to random strangers.
Based on airbnb's stats alone I see 50 million applications.
You raise the risk to your risk management team
Which one of the 3 people in my IoT startup is that?
A lock isn't rocket science.
No but everything else on the device is computer science and bugs happen. A firmware update sounds preferable to having to send it back to vendor every time there's a problem. A firmware update sounds preferable to a major security flaw having been discovered.
The problem is you're generalising. Maybe this firmware update was to change the LED to blink when unlocking. Maybe it was for something far more critical like an identified bug that makes it open by itself randomly that wasn't caught in testing.
You're assuming security is black and white. Most locks aren't very secure and can easily be bypassed with a few seconds of lock picking. The goal is not to make something secure, but rather to make something secure enough.
In a case where you need to hand over keys to strangers, an internet connection is by far not the biggest problem in the scenario.
Now would I want an internet connected remotely unlockable safe for all my wealth? No.
Yet another data point to underpin the motto "Never allow any data or access or service that you value to be controlled by Somebody Else's Computer"
Unless they are better at controlling it by you. Quite frankly if history has proven anything it's that "your own computer" is by far the worst place for the data of the majority of people and even many major companies.
Having to "fix" something is a failure, regardless of who performs the fix.
So by your standards consumer computers pretty much have a 100% failure rate. Also not differentiating who performs a fix is stupid and pointless from an analysis point of view. If I can fix something by doing a factory reset there's orders of magnitude less effect on me than if I have to RMA something, not to mention the fact that there's also a good chance it was user error in the first place.
it's looks like there's a better future coming
Yep. Multiplayer is a much sought after feature now that there's only some 500 people still playing.
The people bored out of their mind by this piece of over hyped shit are unlikely to be excited by driving in a car.
The features are irrelevant. With ~500 players online at a time what are the odds of finding someone? This was more relevant when 200000 people were playing.
To their credit they have ignited the fire in the hearts of a whole 18000 fans this weekend according to the status.
Abysmal.
What set of instructions to start a snipping tool works on all supported Windows versions (including versions after the deprecation of MSPaint)
Windows key + "sni" + return. It is universal across any Windows version that isn't a massive security problem and shouldn't be in active use.
Regardless of how well this works, it is better and far more consistent than relying on apps to reinvent every frigging wheel.
all supported OS X/macOS versions, and all major X11/Linux distributions?
Who cares? No seriously who does? There has never been a cross OS requirement for any end user functionality. It sure as hell won't be improved by a rarely used browser failing in a very busy market place.
one in Firefox would work on all major desktop operating systems
You're assuming a lot about how it will work, what it will do, and just plain ignoring the fact that the odds of you finding a computer with Firefox on it at random that you don't control are lower than your requirement to have a consistent method of doing this across 3 OSes.
Car analogy: Our engineers have found we can make the windscreen 30% larger if we remove the dashboard and AC controls, brilliant!
It's a logical next step. What's the point of a dashboard. You don't need most of what is displayed on it in order to drive a car. Nearly all indicators are required at the start of the trip. The rest could be reduced to audible alarms or eliminated with trip planning. The only important indicator is the speed and that could be put on a HUD in the newer larger windscreen.
The AC, likewise. Last time I touched AC controls was before I bought a car with climate control. Quite an important thing when the human is the controller, but we invented control theory in the 1700s but for some reason it is still a premium product for a car.
I'll take the larger windscreen thanks.
Hogwash. I started off on Windows 98
So you're not at all even remotely qualified on how the changes between between Gnome 2 and 3 affect new users. You have fallen into exactly the original trap which is to approach the problem from a power user point of view and then speak on the topic of general usability. Not only that you reinforced just how much of a disconnect you have from new users when called out on it.
The ability of users to do basic things has not changed.
You just rendered your entire comment irrelevant as you have demonstrated that you either a) have never used the product, b) are blind or c) just have no idea.
>like a frozen screen or unresponsive touch
Had I just bought a device worth a few grand, and the primary interaction interface spontaneously stopped working, I'd bloody well call that a failure.
Interesting insight into corp culture at microsoft, no surprises really though.
If it is something you can fix yourself in software then it's not a hardware failure and should rightfully be excluded. How you define personal failures is quite irrelevant when it comes to product returns for hardware failures, which is what the original discussion was about.
They're more likely to act like the product is everything they expected it to be, sometimes even to the point of telling their friends how great it is.
You're ignoring the reason for ownership. You don't buy a Ferrari to get 500000km out of it. You don't buy a Renault Twingo for the awesome street cred afforded by the 1000cc engine. That doesn't mean you won't recommend it to people for a similar set of reasons.
I am happy with my Surface Pro despite it having been replaced. I will recommend it because the replacement was painless and didn't detract too much from the other uniqueness. The lack of alternatives in the market helps as well (though not with several other vendors creating clones it's a matter of time before that changes).
Despite it's failures and rubbish drivers it still is every bit the device many people think it is. That doesn't mean we've been "taken", quite the opposite. People who feel taken may try to justify the purchase but fail to become repeat customers. In many cases we witness the opposite.