I think TFA is confused. Chrome OS does not execute code from flash drives at all. It only runs apps you install, it doesn't run anything that wasn't installed.
What they are actually doing is spotting the OS driver even enumerating USB devices when the screen is off/locked. That prevents attacks on the USB stack itself.
They are mocking people who demand double blind tests of everything and dismiss anything that isn't tested that way. Since double blind trials are impossible for many things in medicine, especially psychology and sociology, some people think they are bunk yet probably wouldn't hold parachutes to the same rigorous standard.
Right, and no-one thought to screenshot or archive the page, no news articles were written about it, all evidence was effectively and completely scrubbed from the internet.
High density housing brings its own problems. Since you are not lacking space and most of these tech companies don't really need to be physically near each other anyway, they should be encouraged to spread out.
Flexible working time and light rail really helps too.
Maybe companies should be required to invest in housing when they open a new campus. If they are spending a billion or two on the campus then some decent homes nearby, with a stipulation that they can only ever be sold for a very reasonable amount and can never be rented, doesn't seem like much of a burden.
Mashiki, unless you stop using your sock puppets to down-mod every reply I make to you, I'm not going to engage. Debate or sock puppets, it's up to you.
What struck me is that someone basically doxed the guy, posting details of his home from Google Maps and some house data site on Imgur, and then lots of other sites amplified the doxing and no-one seems to have stopped to think about it.
Also kinda sad that people even thought this was real in the first place. Does it not look like something professionally shot and edited on commercial grade equipment by professionals? Did the fact that his channel has 5.6 million subscribers and revenue to match not tip people off that he might be more than just an amateur at this point?
He's the real deal. Real qualifications, his channel has a fair bit of science on it (and 5.4 million subscribers) and he does appear to be engineering quite a bit of stuff.
And like most big YouTube channels he has set up a production company to do professional editing and scripting and yes like everything on TV some of it is faked. Hopefully you didn't think everything you saw on TV/YouTube was real...
So basically people are upset that big YouTube channels are exactly like TV shows.
Let's start by assuming you have a smartphone, as most people do. So you already carry a device capable of listening to your conversations around with you. Therefore the smart speaker isn't making things any worse, especially if it's from the same manufacturer as your phone.
But the smart speakers have some advantages. Google ones have a button that you can set up to activate them, so they are not always listening. Oh, right, you are paranoid and assume the button is fake... Well, at least they don't run apps, just the software the manufacturer provides, so less chance of malware infection.
You can always unplug it too, where as your phone is probably harder to really turn off in these days of non-removable batteries. But then you probably use tinfoil for wallpaper anyway, right?
You can always find an idiot calling themselves X to use as an argument against any idea, movement or philosophy. That doesn't make them representative or even the thing they claim to be.
If you disagree then I'm claiming to be a conservative. Your move.
Right up until we get to the point where they're trying to impose their views on other people....which is what's happening here.
How is removing something from their repository, a free service that they provide to you because they believe in the principal of doing so, imposing their views on you? You don't like their repo, go somewhere else.
The iPhone 4 antenna shipped on Jobs' watch. When you look back at the history of dodgy hinges, overheating problems, broken logic boards... I don't think it was any better under him.
China still has the ability to put humans in space, something the US currently does not. And the next person on the moon will likely be Chinese too. Mars is harder to predict, maybe a Chinese astronaut or maybe a Space X employee, but at the rate it is currently going NASA is definitely in 3rd place.
It's such a damn shame, especially with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 next year.
I think it's secrecy that ruins Apple products. It prevents them doing adequate real-world testing and leads to design flaws that should really be caught. Keyboards that can be killed by a spec of dust, antennas that don't work when you hold the phone, maps so bad they can kill you, weak screen hinges... The list is long and something that other high end manufacturers generally seem to avoid.
Hard flat surfaces are what will screw Apple in the end. People will return iPads that rock back and forth in use (bent forwards), or break their screens when they press down a little too hard (bent backwards).
I use some of those for subtitles. My wife and I watched Game of Thrones recently, with Chinese subtitles for her. The subtitles were a fan effort and seemed to be really. For example they put character's names on screen when they first appeared in that episode, which is something I could have done with in English at times.
It seems to be related to the new case design. They put a small hole for the mic on one side, and the USB socket directly opposite it, creating a weak point along which the iPad can be bent by hand fairly easily.
That creates problems during manufacturing because it becomes difficult to avoid bending the case as it gets machined and assembled.
At this point SJWs are a conspiracy theory. A few isolated events used to construct an imaginary, existential threat. Remember when Debian was doomed because it adopted a CoC? And then Linux, and now Python? Sleeper cells I guess, laying CoC caches in preparation for the great purge. Linus is now a double agent.
I'm not a big fan of IP. The US is just as bad as China IMHO, it's just that it goes about it differently. Ridiculously long copyrights that steal from the public domain, DRM and the DMCA that steals from consumers, corrupt and unreasonable patent system...
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I think TFA is confused. Chrome OS does not execute code from flash drives at all. It only runs apps you install, it doesn't run anything that wasn't installed.
What they are actually doing is spotting the OS driver even enumerating USB devices when the screen is off/locked. That prevents attacks on the USB stack itself.
This wasn't a serious study, it is actually an extension of an old joke.
https://www.bmj.com/content/32...
They are mocking people who demand double blind tests of everything and dismiss anything that isn't tested that way. Since double blind trials are impossible for many things in medicine, especially psychology and sociology, some people think they are bunk yet probably wouldn't hold parachutes to the same rigorous standard.
Right, and no-one thought to screenshot or archive the page, no news articles were written about it, all evidence was effectively and completely scrubbed from the internet.
High density housing brings its own problems. Since you are not lacking space and most of these tech companies don't really need to be physically near each other anyway, they should be encouraged to spread out.
Flexible working time and light rail really helps too.
Maybe companies should be required to invest in housing when they open a new campus. If they are spending a billion or two on the campus then some decent homes nearby, with a stipulation that they can only ever be sold for a very reasonable amount and can never be rented, doesn't seem like much of a burden.
I wish I had bid more now. I always regret these things afterwards.
Ah, never mind. I found it. It's an alt-right conspiracy theory, to explain why some people who thought they were Arian turned out not to be.
Do you have a link for this? Google turns up nothing about 23andMe distorting their results in this manner.
Mashiki, unless you stop using your sock puppets to down-mod every reply I make to you, I'm not going to engage. Debate or sock puppets, it's up to you.
What struck me is that someone basically doxed the guy, posting details of his home from Google Maps and some house data site on Imgur, and then lots of other sites amplified the doxing and no-one seems to have stopped to think about it.
Also kinda sad that people even thought this was real in the first place. Does it not look like something professionally shot and edited on commercial grade equipment by professionals? Did the fact that his channel has 5.6 million subscribers and revenue to match not tip people off that he might be more than just an amateur at this point?
He's the real deal. Real qualifications, his channel has a fair bit of science on it (and 5.4 million subscribers) and he does appear to be engineering quite a bit of stuff.
And like most big YouTube channels he has set up a production company to do professional editing and scripting and yes like everything on TV some of it is faked. Hopefully you didn't think everything you saw on TV/YouTube was real...
So basically people are upset that big YouTube channels are exactly like TV shows.
Actually a smart speaker might be your best bet.
Let's start by assuming you have a smartphone, as most people do. So you already carry a device capable of listening to your conversations around with you. Therefore the smart speaker isn't making things any worse, especially if it's from the same manufacturer as your phone.
But the smart speakers have some advantages. Google ones have a button that you can set up to activate them, so they are not always listening. Oh, right, you are paranoid and assume the button is fake... Well, at least they don't run apps, just the software the manufacturer provides, so less chance of malware infection.
You can always unplug it too, where as your phone is probably harder to really turn off in these days of non-removable batteries. But then you probably use tinfoil for wallpaper anyway, right?
You can always find an idiot calling themselves X to use as an argument against any idea, movement or philosophy. That doesn't make them representative or even the thing they claim to be.
If you disagree then I'm claiming to be a conservative. Your move.
Going by the feminist self defense brigade, defending Islam is great and a burka is 'liberating' and a 'great statement for feminism.'
Where do you get this bollocks from? Is his name Carl?
Right up until we get to the point where they're trying to impose their views on other people....which is what's happening here.
How is removing something from their repository, a free service that they provide to you because they believe in the principal of doing so, imposing their views on you? You don't like their repo, go somewhere else.
Commercial services are great, it's just that there isn't much a of a business case for getting back to the moon or to Mars.
The iPhone 4 antenna shipped on Jobs' watch. When you look back at the history of dodgy hinges, overheating problems, broken logic boards... I don't think it was any better under him.
The new iPad comes pre-bended from the factory
In that sense it's an upgrade.
I would say it's contoured to your arse, but it's a bit big for the back pocket.
China still has the ability to put humans in space, something the US currently does not. And the next person on the moon will likely be Chinese too. Mars is harder to predict, maybe a Chinese astronaut or maybe a Space X employee, but at the rate it is currently going NASA is definitely in 3rd place.
It's such a damn shame, especially with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 next year.
I think it's secrecy that ruins Apple products. It prevents them doing adequate real-world testing and leads to design flaws that should really be caught. Keyboards that can be killed by a spec of dust, antennas that don't work when you hold the phone, maps so bad they can kill you, weak screen hinges... The list is long and something that other high end manufacturers generally seem to avoid.
Well, Samsung did just demo a folding smartphone... Maybe Apple is just trying to get ahead of them.
Hard flat surfaces are what will screw Apple in the end. People will return iPads that rock back and forth in use (bent forwards), or break their screens when they press down a little too hard (bent backwards).
I use some of those for subtitles. My wife and I watched Game of Thrones recently, with Chinese subtitles for her. The subtitles were a fan effort and seemed to be really. For example they put character's names on screen when they first appeared in that episode, which is something I could have done with in English at times.
It seems to be related to the new case design. They put a small hole for the mic on one side, and the USB socket directly opposite it, creating a weak point along which the iPad can be bent by hand fairly easily.
That creates problems during manufacturing because it becomes difficult to avoid bending the case as it gets machined and assembled.
I see the irony was lost on you.
At this point SJWs are a conspiracy theory. A few isolated events used to construct an imaginary, existential threat. Remember when Debian was doomed because it adopted a CoC? And then Linux, and now Python? Sleeper cells I guess, laying CoC caches in preparation for the great purge. Linus is now a double agent.
I'm not a big fan of IP. The US is just as bad as China IMHO, it's just that it goes about it differently. Ridiculously long copyrights that steal from the public domain, DRM and the DMCA that steals from consumers, corrupt and unreasonable patent system...