Who here has a gentle sloping path up to their door? I'm in Southern California and I'm trying to think of any neighborhoods where this would be able to get very close to most doorsteps.
If you like large cities, you would like San Francisco. If you do not like large cities, you probably would not like San Francisco. There are very few problems unique to the city.
The manufacturers are not implying your warranty evaporates if you break the seal. It's more that you will never succeed in convincing them that you did not cause the problem at that point.
In a more extreme example, would you want to be a manufacturer and honor a warranty on a (spinning) hard drive with a broken seal?
Well maybe if you ask nicely the authors will compile it for your platform of choice. I'm not sure how easily you'll find a steady supply of non-Microsoft shops to spearfish, though.
This should be called a feature. Netflix advertises itself as a streaming service. Amazon Prime claims that you can
"own" the movie. Problem is Prime is still just a streaming service. It's false advertising and the reason I don't use Prime for movies. If I "buy" a movie, I expect to be able to d/l to a portable drive so I can watch it when I don't have a data connection. If I subscribe to streaming service, I won't have that expecation.
I get what you are saying but you are not describing Amazon Prime, which features a streaming video service and no claims of ownership. You are describing "Amazon Video," the option which allows you to "buy" or rent videos to stream to your computer or other devices.
...since it alone ensures I will never buy an iPhone.
I've been trying to tell people there isn't $400 difference between an iPhone (or Galaxy for that matter) and whatever bargain bin LG or Motorola you can get on Amazon.
Why would that cause their model to collapse? Is all the business software people use magically going to recompile itself? There are already consumer pcs running ARM, called Chromebooks. Windows is doing just fine.
I've even heard rumors that Microsoft wants to switch to this model
Do you mean the PackageManagement module that comes standard with Windows 10/Server 2016?
It's kind of a package manager manager. It's a set of simple commands that let you add and use different package managers ("Providers") and their repositories ("Sources"). They all manage dependencies and whatnot in their own way, but it seems like a nice start.
Chocolatey is the provider with a lot of bread and butter FOSS and even MS binaries you might be looking for. For instance, you can install 7-zip, FreeMind, or PsTools.
But the one thing you're *never* allowed to do, for some reason, is:
- Actually stop buying Apple products
Nonsense, plenty of people switch. Especially people who grow up, start families, and realize they're better off with a $100 phone and $500 worth of diapers than with an iPhone and poop all over the place.
I'd be surprised if most kids don't already have Minecraft in some form at home. PC, XBox, their parents' phones... What's different about this version is that they get to play it at and for school.
I never see anyone, even the oldest of people, put "please" in a Google search... maybe people understand the difference between talking to a computer and talking to a human more than you give them credit for.
That's because Google interprets queries and responds with lists, and Echo is designed to interpret and respond in natural speech. If I type "Thank you" after a Google search, I get a new search. If I tell Alexa "Thank you" after she tells me a dumb joke, she says "you're welcome."
This is still in the category of "Stupid things parents complain about" and yet, as an Echo owner, I can tell you that the interaction is still surprisingly human-like.
governments across the globe keep an eye on what their citizens are accessing online and some censor content on the Web in an effort to control what they think.
No matter how great your firewall is, I don't see how a country with the Web is more prone to being controlled than a country without it.
That just a natural response to steam/linux. I'm even surprised it took so long for them to enable any windows PC to run XBOX games since the XBOX is a PC running windows.
I don't think Steam on Linux requires responding to right now. It's still less than 1% of all Steam users.
That's why more secure systems use things like the RSA key fobs. So that your password CANNOT be re-used.
Two factor authentication does not prevent password reuse. It may prevent an attacker from using compromised credentials, but "password reuse" refers to a person who chooses to use the same password across multiple accounts.
Running widespread password lists against your own password database is a good security practice and you are indeed helping your users much more than trying to enforce a stupid password policy.
Krebs suggests that Facebook et al are checking for password reuse, but this isn't necessarily the case. They can simply force a reset on the account with the same email (or other ID, I suppose) without bothering to check their own hash for reuse of the compromised password.
This has several added benefits: It gives them an excuse to force their users to update their passwords and it provides an additional channel of communication to affected users that they might want to check all their accounts.
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Who here has a gentle sloping path up to their door? I'm in Southern California and I'm trying to think of any neighborhoods where this would be able to get very close to most doorsteps.
The only way a monopoly can exist is through government protection.
You have it exactly backwards. The only way competition exists in certain (most?) sectors is due to government protection.
I'm glad to see she understands the first rule of business.
Honestly, I don't know what you are getting at. Is it, "Make money?" Or perhaps "Grow your business?" Maybe you mean "Don't talk about Fight Club."
If you like large cities, you would like San Francisco. If you do not like large cities, you probably would not like San Francisco. There are very few problems unique to the city.
The manufacturers are not implying your warranty evaporates if you break the seal. It's more that you will never succeed in convincing them that you did not cause the problem at that point.
In a more extreme example, would you want to be a manufacturer and honor a warranty on a (spinning) hard drive with a broken seal?
CryptXXX only runs on Microsoft Windows I presume ..
Well maybe if you ask nicely the authors will compile it for your platform of choice. I'm not sure how easily you'll find a steady supply of non-Microsoft shops to spearfish, though.
Cheap powerful laptop that runs Linux. Sorry, I couldn't come up with a better subject than my comment.
And with built-in direct-to-Google data-spying features too!
How about a phone that gets upstream updates without manufacturer and carrier cruft in the way?
How could anyone have remained clueless with the wall to wall coverage? More importantly, why should anyone that apathetic be taken seriously now?
This should be called a feature. Netflix advertises itself as a streaming service. Amazon Prime claims that you can "own" the movie. Problem is Prime is still just a streaming service. It's false advertising and the reason I don't use Prime for movies. If I "buy" a movie, I expect to be able to d/l to a portable drive so I can watch it when I don't have a data connection. If I subscribe to streaming service, I won't have that expecation.
I get what you are saying but you are not describing Amazon Prime, which features a streaming video service and no claims of ownership. You are describing "Amazon Video," the option which allows you to "buy" or rent videos to stream to your computer or other devices.
And as everyone predicted, the pound is tanking without the strength of the EU to prop it up.
Maybe wait more than 24 hours to declare a financial impact.
...since it alone ensures I will never buy an iPhone.
I've been trying to tell people there isn't $400 difference between an iPhone (or Galaxy for that matter) and whatever bargain bin LG or Motorola you can get on Amazon.
I'd like to see someone hatch a conspiracy or elaborate prank on the world, just to show that there are people who can do it.
Why go through all that trouble when you can just run a Word doc through a fax machine and the media will buy it?
IQ scores are more or less meaningless in this context. A nation does not have an "IQ".
In this context, at best it is a measure of how well the country's culture conditions people to taking standardized tests.
I'm right there with you.
I suspect that here on Slashdot there will be many posts trying to correlate the posters' own IQ and their views on intellectual property.
Why would that cause their model to collapse? Is all the business software people use magically going to recompile itself? There are already consumer pcs running ARM, called Chromebooks. Windows is doing just fine.
I've even heard rumors that Microsoft wants to switch to this model
Do you mean the PackageManagement module that comes standard with Windows 10/Server 2016?
It's kind of a package manager manager. It's a set of simple commands that let you add and use different package managers ("Providers") and their repositories ("Sources"). They all manage dependencies and whatnot in their own way, but it seems like a nice start.
Chocolatey is the provider with a lot of bread and butter FOSS and even MS binaries you might be looking for. For instance, you can install 7-zip, FreeMind, or PsTools.
But the one thing you're *never* allowed to do, for some reason, is: - Actually stop buying Apple products
Nonsense, plenty of people switch. Especially people who grow up, start families, and realize they're better off with a $100 phone and $500 worth of diapers than with an iPhone and poop all over the place.
Which part of everything did you fail to understand?
The part where he provided a source for the fringe, inconsequential commentary he repeated.
It's been getting some coverage in the right-wing media..
Everything is politics.
And yet you just brought up politics.
The first hit is free....
I'd be surprised if most kids don't already have Minecraft in some form at home. PC, XBox, their parents' phones... What's different about this version is that they get to play it at and for school.
I never see anyone, even the oldest of people, put "please" in a Google search... maybe people understand the difference between talking to a computer and talking to a human more than you give them credit for.
That's because Google interprets queries and responds with lists, and Echo is designed to interpret and respond in natural speech. If I type "Thank you" after a Google search, I get a new search. If I tell Alexa "Thank you" after she tells me a dumb joke, she says "you're welcome."
This is still in the category of "Stupid things parents complain about" and yet, as an Echo owner, I can tell you that the interaction is still surprisingly human-like.
governments across the globe keep an eye on what their citizens are accessing online and some censor content on the Web in an effort to control what they think.
No matter how great your firewall is, I don't see how a country with the Web is more prone to being controlled than a country without it.
That just a natural response to steam/linux. I'm even surprised it took so long for them to enable any windows PC to run XBOX games since the XBOX is a PC running windows.
I don't think Steam on Linux requires responding to right now. It's still less than 1% of all Steam users.
Source: http://store.steampowered.com/...
That's why more secure systems use things like the RSA key fobs. So that your password CANNOT be re-used.
Two factor authentication does not prevent password reuse. It may prevent an attacker from using compromised credentials, but "password reuse" refers to a person who chooses to use the same password across multiple accounts.
Running widespread password lists against your own password database is a good security practice and you are indeed helping your users much more than trying to enforce a stupid password policy.
Krebs suggests that Facebook et al are checking for password reuse, but this isn't necessarily the case. They can simply force a reset on the account with the same email (or other ID, I suppose) without bothering to check their own hash for reuse of the compromised password.
This has several added benefits: It gives them an excuse to force their users to update their passwords and it provides an additional channel of communication to affected users that they might want to check all their accounts.