There are loads of fake Apple stores in China, but they sell genuine Apple phones. They are kinda funny, they have the standard Apple wooden tables and fake-titanium decor. I asked about it and they don't really regard them as fake as such, as in no-one mistakes them for actual Apple stores, it's just a kind of advertising or "trade dress" to differentiate them from the shops that sell other brands of phone.
35 days a year basline seems to be the gold standard in Europe. Typically around 22-25 days you can take whenever you like, plus the rest as paid public holidays.
Unfortunately I find many companies don't like to negotiate extra time off. My current employer lets me buy one or two weeks a year, basically unpaid leave no-questions-asked and with the cost spread over the year. I'm quite happy with that.
I think it's fair to say that for a long time he, like most people, didn't really expect Trump to win so didn't take him too seriously. On the other hand, I think he does make good political and philosophical/moral arguments, he just tends to preface them with some humorous insults.
I guess staying away from the wider platform issues is his thing - he's more focused on the less often discussed stuff, the things you might not be aware of.
Google Home does that too, and the Max (similar price bracket to the HomePod) is generally thought to have similarly excellent sound quality.
Google Home has a few advantages too:
- Line in - USB - Off switch for the microphone - Removable power lead - Google Assistant isn't a lobotomized version like Homepod Siri is - Works with all phones
The actual tech for adjusting to the room geometry has been around for a while in some high end home cinema stuff. HomePod has a slight advantage in that it is omnidirectional (the standard Google Home is too, but not the Max), although that's less useful than it first appears because due to needing power it will end up in a corner or against a wall anyway.
Earbuds don't need active noise cancellation, they can just create a seal inside the ear canal that blocks almost all external noise.
I have some AKH Y50BTs that again have no active cancellation but create a really good seal just sitting on the ears. I have tried Bose and had some Audio Technica active noise cancelling over-ear cans but the AKGs are both quieter and more comfortable for wearing long term on a plane.
Libratone make earbuds with adjustable noise cancellation. They don't actively cancel noise, they just block it as outlined above, and have a microphone that mixes external sound back in at an adjustable level.
You have to weigh the possibility of an unpatched cloud server being compromised by a neighbouring VM against the possibility of your own in-house servers being hacked.
Cloud companies so security on a massive scale and all the big guys like Amazon, Microsoft and Google have a track record of keeping their systems up to date and secure. It's no wonder, because they can afford the best security staff and security is a core part of their business.
Your locked server room looks impressive but is reliant on who you can afford to employ to secure it. In fact you really need a team working on security, rather than a single point of failure. And you had better be ready to test and deploy patches fast too.
Also, the VM isolation issue isn't really an issue because you can just pay a bit more to ensure no-one else's VMs are running along side yours. For really secure stuff it's a good idea to encrypt data in RAM too, which AMD supports in hardware to mitigate exactly this kind of attack. Different key for each VM of course.
Under EU derived UK law HMRC is required to completely inform the user of what data is stored and how it will be used, including if it will be shared with any other organization. Not only did they fail to do so, but have admitted storing the actual recordings rather than just the metadata which strongly suggests that their system is badly designed and insecure.
The recordings represent a massive and unnecessary security risk, because anyone with access to them an impersonate any user of the system. Like passwords they should just store an irriversible hash of the metadata.
This kind of system is fine if it is done properly and legally, but that means fully informing the users and properly controlling the data.
1) Chinese manufacturers take our designs, make extras, and sell counterfeits as if they were original(*) 2) Chinese manufacturers steal our IP and trade secrets for other products 3) The Chinese violate licensing agreements (ie - hacked copies of software) and the government does nothing about it. 4) Chinese working in the US commit industrial espionage and send the information back to China
How to trade tariffs fix any of that? At best they might make it harder to sell those products in the US, but not the rest of the world.
On the one hand, US companies want the cheapest possible manufacturing. On the other hand, they want extreme loyalty and security. And the solution to this predicament is apparently is apparently trade tariffs.
Seems like a bit of a non-sequitur.
How about Apple then? They make all their crap in China. It doesn't get counterfeited really - you get a few similar looking phones but none run iOS or have knock-off Apple CPUs in them or anything like that. And a lot of companies just resell OEM Chinese stuff anyway, and somehow do okay because people trust US brands to at least provide some support and warranty coverage.
I hate to point this out, but you and all the other people criticising him here are doing the same thing. No criticism of specific topics he covered or points he raised, just attacking his presentation and style. Okian came about the closest when he mentioned vitamin D, but didn't elaborate.
It's 100GW on top of the 175GW of renewable capacity they already have in place, which is a mixture of sources (not just solar). That is on top of all the non-renewable power they already have too.
To be fair it's as much the fault of the vendor who decided that a consumer desktop OS was the ideal choice for their embedded application, and that it should be exposed to threats requiring it to be patched regularly.
It's very frustrating how their hardware used to be absolutely second to none
Did it though? How far back are we talking?
If we only consider the modern 2nd coming of Job era then the old CRT iMacs had a flaw that could get a CD stuck in them, requiring disassembly to remove. I seem to recall they were a bit marginal on the cooling too. First gen iPods had terrible screens, right up until the colour one really, and of course started the glued in non-replaceable 18 month battery trend.
Hinges, overheating, electrical problems, wireless problems, bad design... Apple products have always been a mixed bag.
PDF viewing and web sites like Amazon work just fine on ARM Chromebooks. Maybe Chrome's JS engine is better than whatever you are using, because it's used for both.
Your comment about MS removing Aero Glass because of ARM is just bizarre. Have you not noticed that phones tend to have far more graphical flourishes and effects than desktops? And at comparable or higher resolutions too, with 1920x1080 being decidedly mid-range for a phone now.
Mobile GPUs are pretty powerful and, like desktop ones, offload a lot of the intensive work such as video decoding. The lack of graphical effects in Windows is because Microsoft are shit at design, that's all.
Reminds me of that pub in the UK called "The Hobbit". Got a C&D and there was a massive uproar, but actually when you look at the pub and its marketing material it was all full of images of the actors from the movies, using the logos and fonts they developed.
Meanwhile other Middle Earth themed pubs that used their own or public domain artwork were fine.
It's done by creating operating systems not full of swiss cheese escalation vulnerabilities
People who think that's even possible are the reason why we have operating systems full of Swiss cheese escalation vulnerabilities.
Security that relies on one layer, in this case the OS being coded securely, is not secure at all. Even if you were the first person in history to code a completely secure OS, someone would just trick the user into installing some crap or use a hardware flaw like RowHammer or Meltdown to bypass your protections.
The only solution is defence in depth. That's what Android has, it's what iOS and Windows have, it's what Linux has now.
You can still install apps from outside the Play store, it's just that they must be signed as part of the final build process. Most are already anyway, and it's easy to add to your build process.
The upshot of requiring signing is that apps can't be tampered with. We have seen recently some fake versions of popular apps like WhatsApp and Pokemon and Fortnight, which are the official ones with added malware. With the signing requirement it won't be possible to add the malware, because the signature check will then fail.
They could re-sign with their own cert, but then it's very easy for Google to detect and block. Easier than trying to detect obfuscated malware, for example.
WebAssembly makes sense when you think of the browser as the new OS. An OS that provides heavy sandboxing and a permission system.
Compiling to machine code may be a bit scary, but it's what all major browsers have been doing for a while now. JIT for Javascript was new a decade ago.
Running unverified code sounds crazy until you realize that that's what most people do most of the time. Even in the open source world few people bother to check the source or binaries they are getting from repos, and bad stuff has snuck in before. At least in the browser it's sandboxed.
I'm not saying I'll stop blocking JS or that this is necessarily all a good thing, but it's nothing like the bad old ActiveX days either.
There is an economic imperative for them too. Europe, Japan and the US have all made money exporting energy generation technology. Now there is a big shift to safe renewables that don't have any of the old down sides (pollution, CO2, requiring nuclear fuel/disposal/regulation) there is a big opportunity to sell vast amounts of new technology and engineering knowledge.
The point of that scene was that if everyone dies saving the others then you end up with no one left. The heroic suicide attack is heroic but not a winning strategy.
As for light speed ramming, keep in mind that was the biggest ship the rebels ever had. If anything didn't make sense it was the space bombers, but it's Star Wars so scientific accuracy isn't really a thing in that universe.
The really worrying thing is that there are lots of people on the various Tesla forums complaining that the new Autopilot update makes it "unusable" for them. It now checks much more often for hands on the wheel, about every 30 seconds or so. It used to let you go 15 minutes or more without hands on.
Seems like quite a lot of people were really using it in an unsafe way before, and are now angry at Tesla even though it's still a lot worse than every other manufacturer.
You can actually just wedge a bit of fruit in the wheel, something like an orange. The weight is enough to make it think you are applying torque to the wheel.
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There are loads of fake Apple stores in China, but they sell genuine Apple phones. They are kinda funny, they have the standard Apple wooden tables and fake-titanium decor. I asked about it and they don't really regard them as fake as such, as in no-one mistakes them for actual Apple stores, it's just a kind of advertising or "trade dress" to differentiate them from the shops that sell other brands of phone.
35 days a year basline seems to be the gold standard in Europe. Typically around 22-25 days you can take whenever you like, plus the rest as paid public holidays.
Unfortunately I find many companies don't like to negotiate extra time off. My current employer lets me buy one or two weeks a year, basically unpaid leave no-questions-asked and with the cost spread over the year. I'm quite happy with that.
I think it's fair to say that for a long time he, like most people, didn't really expect Trump to win so didn't take him too seriously. On the other hand, I think he does make good political and philosophical/moral arguments, he just tends to preface them with some humorous insults.
I guess staying away from the wider platform issues is his thing - he's more focused on the less often discussed stuff, the things you might not be aware of.
Google Home does that too, and the Max (similar price bracket to the HomePod) is generally thought to have similarly excellent sound quality.
Google Home has a few advantages too:
- Line in
- USB
- Off switch for the microphone
- Removable power lead
- Google Assistant isn't a lobotomized version like Homepod Siri is
- Works with all phones
The actual tech for adjusting to the room geometry has been around for a while in some high end home cinema stuff. HomePod has a slight advantage in that it is omnidirectional (the standard Google Home is too, but not the Max), although that's less useful than it first appears because due to needing power it will end up in a corner or against a wall anyway.
Earbuds don't need active noise cancellation, they can just create a seal inside the ear canal that blocks almost all external noise.
I have some AKH Y50BTs that again have no active cancellation but create a really good seal just sitting on the ears. I have tried Bose and had some Audio Technica active noise cancelling over-ear cans but the AKGs are both quieter and more comfortable for wearing long term on a plane.
Libratone make earbuds with adjustable noise cancellation. They don't actively cancel noise, they just block it as outlined above, and have a microphone that mixes external sound back in at an adjustable level.
You have to weigh the possibility of an unpatched cloud server being compromised by a neighbouring VM against the possibility of your own in-house servers being hacked.
Cloud companies so security on a massive scale and all the big guys like Amazon, Microsoft and Google have a track record of keeping their systems up to date and secure. It's no wonder, because they can afford the best security staff and security is a core part of their business.
Your locked server room looks impressive but is reliant on who you can afford to employ to secure it. In fact you really need a team working on security, rather than a single point of failure. And you had better be ready to test and deploy patches fast too.
Also, the VM isolation issue isn't really an issue because you can just pay a bit more to ensure no-one else's VMs are running along side yours. For really secure stuff it's a good idea to encrypt data in RAM too, which AMD supports in hardware to mitigate exactly this kind of attack. Different key for each VM of course.
Under EU derived UK law HMRC is required to completely inform the user of what data is stored and how it will be used, including if it will be shared with any other organization. Not only did they fail to do so, but have admitted storing the actual recordings rather than just the metadata which strongly suggests that their system is badly designed and insecure.
The recordings represent a massive and unnecessary security risk, because anyone with access to them an impersonate any user of the system. Like passwords they should just store an irriversible hash of the metadata.
This kind of system is fine if it is done properly and legally, but that means fully informing the users and properly controlling the data.
That their end goal is to acquire all this technology and then shut out foreign competition.
Isn't that Trump's policy too?
1) Chinese manufacturers take our designs, make extras, and sell counterfeits as if they were original(*)
2) Chinese manufacturers steal our IP and trade secrets for other products
3) The Chinese violate licensing agreements (ie - hacked copies of software) and the government does nothing about it.
4) Chinese working in the US commit industrial espionage and send the information back to China
How to trade tariffs fix any of that? At best they might make it harder to sell those products in the US, but not the rest of the world.
On the one hand, US companies want the cheapest possible manufacturing. On the other hand, they want extreme loyalty and security. And the solution to this predicament is apparently is apparently trade tariffs.
Seems like a bit of a non-sequitur.
How about Apple then? They make all their crap in China. It doesn't get counterfeited really - you get a few similar looking phones but none run iOS or have knock-off Apple CPUs in them or anything like that. And a lot of companies just resell OEM Chinese stuff anyway, and somehow do okay because people trust US brands to at least provide some support and warranty coverage.
Trade tariffs are the wrong tool.
Do the co-workers agree with them or are they just afraid of reprisal for contradicting their boss?
Also, assassination is the oldest means of advancement in the world.
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I hate to point this out, but you and all the other people criticising him here are doing the same thing. No criticism of specific topics he covered or points he raised, just attacking his presentation and style. Okian came about the closest when he mentioned vitamin D, but didn't elaborate.
Can you perhaps give us some specific examples?
It's 100GW on top of the 175GW of renewable capacity they already have in place, which is a mixture of sources (not just solar). That is on top of all the non-renewable power they already have too.
To be fair it's as much the fault of the vendor who decided that a consumer desktop OS was the ideal choice for their embedded application, and that it should be exposed to threats requiring it to be patched regularly.
It's very frustrating how their hardware used to be absolutely second to none
Did it though? How far back are we talking?
If we only consider the modern 2nd coming of Job era then the old CRT iMacs had a flaw that could get a CD stuck in them, requiring disassembly to remove. I seem to recall they were a bit marginal on the cooling too. First gen iPods had terrible screens, right up until the colour one really, and of course started the glued in non-replaceable 18 month battery trend.
Hinges, overheating, electrical problems, wireless problems, bad design... Apple products have always been a mixed bag.
My wife and most of her friends call iPads "computers". The fact that it runs a mobile OS and has no keyboard seems to be irrelevant...
PDF viewing and web sites like Amazon work just fine on ARM Chromebooks. Maybe Chrome's JS engine is better than whatever you are using, because it's used for both.
Your comment about MS removing Aero Glass because of ARM is just bizarre. Have you not noticed that phones tend to have far more graphical flourishes and effects than desktops? And at comparable or higher resolutions too, with 1920x1080 being decidedly mid-range for a phone now.
Mobile GPUs are pretty powerful and, like desktop ones, offload a lot of the intensive work such as video decoding. The lack of graphical effects in Windows is because Microsoft are shit at design, that's all.
Reminds me of that pub in the UK called "The Hobbit". Got a C&D and there was a massive uproar, but actually when you look at the pub and its marketing material it was all full of images of the actors from the movies, using the logos and fonts they developed.
Meanwhile other Middle Earth themed pubs that used their own or public domain artwork were fine.
It's done by creating operating systems not full of swiss cheese escalation vulnerabilities
People who think that's even possible are the reason why we have operating systems full of Swiss cheese escalation vulnerabilities.
Security that relies on one layer, in this case the OS being coded securely, is not secure at all. Even if you were the first person in history to code a completely secure OS, someone would just trick the user into installing some crap or use a hardware flaw like RowHammer or Meltdown to bypass your protections.
The only solution is defence in depth. That's what Android has, it's what iOS and Windows have, it's what Linux has now.
You can still install apps from outside the Play store, it's just that they must be signed as part of the final build process. Most are already anyway, and it's easy to add to your build process.
The upshot of requiring signing is that apps can't be tampered with. We have seen recently some fake versions of popular apps like WhatsApp and Pokemon and Fortnight, which are the official ones with added malware. With the signing requirement it won't be possible to add the malware, because the signature check will then fail.
They could re-sign with their own cert, but then it's very easy for Google to detect and block. Easier than trying to detect obfuscated malware, for example.
WebAssembly makes sense when you think of the browser as the new OS. An OS that provides heavy sandboxing and a permission system.
Compiling to machine code may be a bit scary, but it's what all major browsers have been doing for a while now. JIT for Javascript was new a decade ago.
Running unverified code sounds crazy until you realize that that's what most people do most of the time. Even in the open source world few people bother to check the source or binaries they are getting from repos, and bad stuff has snuck in before. At least in the browser it's sandboxed.
I'm not saying I'll stop blocking JS or that this is necessarily all a good thing, but it's nothing like the bad old ActiveX days either.
There is an economic imperative for them too. Europe, Japan and the US have all made money exporting energy generation technology. Now there is a big shift to safe renewables that don't have any of the old down sides (pollution, CO2, requiring nuclear fuel/disposal/regulation) there is a big opportunity to sell vast amounts of new technology and engineering knowledge.
Apple seems to have a history of not properly testing new hardware under realistic conditions.
The point of that scene was that if everyone dies saving the others then you end up with no one left. The heroic suicide attack is heroic but not a winning strategy.
As for light speed ramming, keep in mind that was the biggest ship the rebels ever had. If anything didn't make sense it was the space bombers, but it's Star Wars so scientific accuracy isn't really a thing in that universe.
The really worrying thing is that there are lots of people on the various Tesla forums complaining that the new Autopilot update makes it "unusable" for them. It now checks much more often for hands on the wheel, about every 30 seconds or so. It used to let you go 15 minutes or more without hands on.
Seems like quite a lot of people were really using it in an unsafe way before, and are now angry at Tesla even though it's still a lot worse than every other manufacturer.
Scary stuff.
You can actually just wedge a bit of fruit in the wheel, something like an orange. The weight is enough to make it think you are applying torque to the wheel.