Plenty of people are that naive. YouTube has a staff dedicated to finding offensive videos because advertisers threw a fit about their ads being run on them.
Best Buy used to do this YEARS ago. Different prices if you flip from WiFi to cellular. VPN is your friend. And no, amazon.com, you may NOT use my location in the browser.
Should we also tell them the point of this study: That smoking may not have been any worse for them than sucking on an e-cig? It's clear many e-cig users switched because they thought it was healthier. If that's not the case, they should know that.
How do you figure you're getting more data this way? You get a one-time-use card number that never gets used at any other vendor including you ever again. That's less data than being able to correlate multiple purchases to the same customer based on the same card number used over time.
Granted, I've got a smartphone, and you could be sniffing my WiFi MAC trying to track me. My payment method doesn't affect that. Also, MAC randomization FTW there.
Not saying cash isn't still the most anonymous option, but NFC with single-use card numbers is certainly better than using a physical credit card.
Nope. The thing that has prevented thieves from stealing my money several times since I've started using it.
A couple of vendors I've used have been "hit" since I started paying exclusively with ApplePay when shopping with them. My one-time-use card number was useless by the time thieves got it. No fraud, no need to get cards reissued. I might actually have a credit card survive until its expiration date without having to get a new one. Probably the first time in a decade if that manages to happen.
Granted, that's ApplePay's one-time function on top of NFC, not purely NFC. Still a BIG improvement over swiping my magstripe all over town for anyone to capture.
From TFA: "But anyone with SS7 access, which can be purchased for around 1000 Euros according to The Süddeutsche Zeitung, can send a routing request, and the network may not authenticate where the message is coming from."
It would tend to suggest that SS7 access is not as closely guarded as one would hope. Likewise, IP routing packets are generally disallowed from consumer-level internet connections. Nonetheless, we've recently seen several times that bad actors in trusted positions still abuse that trust to advertise inappropriate routing.
Ask everyone in your contact list if they mind their name & number (and possibly the rest of their contact "card" including picture, emails, etc.) being uploaded to some unknown server run by a company with unknown privacy policies.
If you're buying the Apple Watch to use apps on it, you'll be sorely disappointed, no doubt. That's not its strength.
It's ideal for receiving notifications without having to pull out my phone and in environments the phone being out and in my hands would be inappropriate. I work in no-photography-allowed environments a lot. I'm not required to hand in my phone, but having it out with the lens visible would cause problems. Also applicable in swimming pools, gym, etc. I get important notifications & can make a quick reply without waving a camera around or getting my phone wet. It's also useful for fitness tracking, adjusting music when my phone's out of reach, and a near-line Siri I don't have to shout across the room for.
I live & work with lots of digital non-natives, and it's especially handy during meetings, dinners, etc. There's a certain level of fidgeting with a watch that's socially acceptable even to Luddites where even a momentary glance at a cell phone ruffles feathers. Watch lets me tell my family I'm running a little late without the Big Boss getting agitated or lets work ask me a quick question without it turning into "working at the dinner table." It's a small thing, but it's great for maintaining the peace.
For apps you're actually going to poke at on the watch screen? Complete and total rubbish. For me, what it does well makes it invaluable. I'm sure others' priorities are different.
If the chaos resulted in reduced scope about as often as it resulted in increased scope, then you might well see symmetry in the over-/under-run of estimates. It's far more common for new features or unforeseen requirements to be added to the scope of work than for anything to be removed.
There's chaos in the development process itself that results in some things taking longer or shorter than initially expected. The external chaos of shifting requirements turns what happens during development itself into a rounding error.
You know the CPU & RAM in the trashcans are all socketed, right? MacOS doesn't support the very latest Intel dies right now, but you *can* pop out the CPU and go up a few levels in the current hardware. Lots of server-pull Xeon's on eBay right now will fit in it & work fine.
They're still WAY overdue for a true upgrade (not just a "refresh"), and it would be nice if they offer truly latest generation options for a change, but the situation isn't quite as dire in the current cans as you make it out to be.
My local theater's idea of enhanced theater sound is turn the volume up until it distorts or the patrons' ears start bleeding (whichever comes second), then turn it down a quarter notch. I guarantee my stacked Advents are a better listening experience than the "RPX" theater.
I'd say there are at least some times when a certain amount of human "knowledge" beats the magic app box.
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I agree that drivers who use real time traffic data are likely to do a better job, but having a basic understanding of the entire city's street layout without being beholden to a GPS device is a really valuable skill for a driver. The tech can certainly augment human knowledge by providing dynamically changing information they couldn't otherwise know, but it's an inferior substitute for a driver who instantly knows several viable routes to get where they're going.
There's no shortage of W-2 abuse in the US. You need N hours to qualify for benefits? Oh look, N-1 hours on your "full time" schedule AGAIN! Sucks to be you. But remember, we need full time availability & you don't get your schedule until two days before so good luck getting another "full time" job to fill in!
Gig economy isn't that different than the reality many people face working W-2. If anything it's more honest about the fact that there's no safety net and you need to keep working until you're dead. The idea of "having a retirement" is romanticized, but it's not going to happen for probably a majority of workers in the US.
I’m not going to feel too bad for the family of that guy when the families of the (number of accidents * 40%) who didn’t die are still happily running around. There are fewer accidents on the whole with Autopilot than without it. That’s a clear win.
Also, if this is the case I think it is, the driver was a douche and completely at fault. He made a habit of posting videos of himself using Autopilot improperly. IE completely not paying attention to the road like he should have been. Stupidity caught up with him. Send a Darwin Award to the family of “Florida Man” (yup, him again. ..) and move on.
And yeah, my level of human compassion for stupid people is borderline sociopath most days.
A good abacus lasts generations too, but for some reason we moved up to programmable calculators. My grandmother still has her rotary telephone, but for some reason lots of people have smart phones that don't even need to be plugged into the wall to make a call.
Just because there isn't a use case that appeals to you doesn't mean the entire class of technology is worthless to the entire world.
If you have multiple release versions open in one sprint, you're kind of doing it wrong. Ship one version this sprint then move on to the next version in the next sprint. If you have tickets that span versions, you've really got epics and need to break things up more.
So there's this thing called configuration options? If you don't want the emails for particular events, turn them off. If you have some barbarian of a JIRA admin who won't let you customize that stuff, invest in tar and/or feathers.
I agree that most of Atlassian's stuff is overpriced bloated crap, but comparing JIRA and Bugzilla is like comparing dial-up and FIOS and claiming they're both internet access from your phone company, so they're the same.
We looked at and rejected Confluence because MediaWiki is free, less resource intensive, and works. We rejected Bamboo because we find Quickbuild (another commercial product) is cheaper, less resource intensive, and much easier to use than Bamboo or Jenkins. Commercial packagings of OpenSource VCS systems like SVN or Git give me hives, and I won't touch them.
But... Especially when you need your ticketing system used by non-programmers, JIRA beats out Bugzilla in user friendliness, workflow tracking, and a bunch of other important features. It's not even a contest. We tried both Bugzilla and TRAC, but JIRA won hands down in terms of user acceptance. That's probably the most important metric there is for a ticketing system.
This might be a neat case to finally establish real hard money lost to lousy security. Not hand-wavey lost time & estimated fraud and other made up^W^W statistically supported dollars, but no-shit, we really lost this many millions because we screwed up. Put that in your spreadsheet & smoke it...
If you want a laptop as opposed to a tablet you can stick a keyboard onto, I've found the Surface (both 2 Pro & 4 Pro) to be disappointing. The folding keyboard and touch pad are miserable to use. The feeling of the keyboard is really.. I dunno.. sloppy.. Tough to describe in words, but no fun to do any amount of typing on. The touch pad has both a right/left mouse button, but there's no visual or tactile delineation where the mouse "button" stops and the normal pad starts nor where the border between left & right buttons are. I'm constantly getting right when I want left, or tapping too high for right & getting the default left on the main body of the touch pad. The pen input is nice-ish to take hand written notes, but the Apple Pencil on an iPad is much more accurate. Looking at MS OneNote where I've taken notes on both devices, the Surface looks like I'm writing in crayon compared to the sharpness of the Apple Pencil notes.
I still get more use out of my five+ year old MacBook Pro than I do the Surface. The Surface does a lot of the functionality of both a laptop & a tablet, but it doesn't do any of it nearly as well as the separate devices do. If you're looking to travel light & small and don't mind dealing with daily annoyance on a lot of the functionality, maybe the Surface is good enough. I just find it annoying to use. I'll grab it when I'm going out for an evening and *might* need to answer a call for work, but if I'm actually planning to get any real work done, the Surface collects dust & I grab a real laptop.
Show me where in the terms is said, "While this television is an Android-based computer and reasonably accepted industry standards include a way of reloading fresh operating software from scratch on such computers, this computer has no such function."
The "everything's a computer" IoT industry has a LONG way to go in terms of disclosing limitations of the devices they're producing. Both sides of the techy and non-techy world have expectations for these devices that are generally agreed upon for other devices of their type in either the consumer electronics or computing device camps. Non-techies have a reasonable expectation that a TV is a box that shows pictures and can't be infected by malware. Techies understand that smart TV's are actually computer that might have malware vulnerabilities and further presume that like all other computers they should have some way to reset them and completely erase any infection.
Manufacturers are falling short of both camp's expectations, and they're also failing to disclose the true nature of the devices to consumers. They're producing devices that are simultaneously unprecedentedly vulnerable by TV standards and unrepairable by computer standards. The only way for a consumer to find these things out is to buy it and find out the hard way. That's not acceptable.
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I'll be the satellites see updates more often than some Android phones sold in the last year.
Plenty of people are that naive. YouTube has a staff dedicated to finding offensive videos because advertisers threw a fit about their ads being run on them.
Best Buy used to do this YEARS ago. Different prices if you flip from WiFi to cellular. VPN is your friend. And no, amazon.com, you may NOT use my location in the browser.
Should we also tell them the point of this study: That smoking may not have been any worse for them than sucking on an e-cig? It's clear many e-cig users switched because they thought it was healthier. If that's not the case, they should know that.
How do you figure you're getting more data this way? You get a one-time-use card number that never gets used at any other vendor including you ever again. That's less data than being able to correlate multiple purchases to the same customer based on the same card number used over time.
Granted, I've got a smartphone, and you could be sniffing my WiFi MAC trying to track me. My payment method doesn't affect that. Also, MAC randomization FTW there.
Not saying cash isn't still the most anonymous option, but NFC with single-use card numbers is certainly better than using a physical credit card.
Nope. The thing that has prevented thieves from stealing my money several times since I've started using it.
A couple of vendors I've used have been "hit" since I started paying exclusively with ApplePay when shopping with them. My one-time-use card number was useless by the time thieves got it. No fraud, no need to get cards reissued. I might actually have a credit card survive until its expiration date without having to get a new one. Probably the first time in a decade if that manages to happen.
Granted, that's ApplePay's one-time function on top of NFC, not purely NFC. Still a BIG improvement over swiping my magstripe all over town for anyone to capture.
From TFA: "But anyone with SS7 access, which can be purchased for around 1000 Euros according to The Süddeutsche Zeitung, can send a routing request, and the network may not authenticate where the message is coming from."
It would tend to suggest that SS7 access is not as closely guarded as one would hope. Likewise, IP routing packets are generally disallowed from consumer-level internet connections. Nonetheless, we've recently seen several times that bad actors in trusted positions still abuse that trust to advertise inappropriate routing.
No big deal to you.
Ask everyone in your contact list if they mind their name & number (and possibly the rest of their contact "card" including picture, emails, etc.) being uploaded to some unknown server run by a company with unknown privacy policies.
If you're buying the Apple Watch to use apps on it, you'll be sorely disappointed, no doubt. That's not its strength.
It's ideal for receiving notifications without having to pull out my phone and in environments the phone being out and in my hands would be inappropriate. I work in no-photography-allowed environments a lot. I'm not required to hand in my phone, but having it out with the lens visible would cause problems. Also applicable in swimming pools, gym, etc. I get important notifications & can make a quick reply without waving a camera around or getting my phone wet. It's also useful for fitness tracking, adjusting music when my phone's out of reach, and a near-line Siri I don't have to shout across the room for.
I live & work with lots of digital non-natives, and it's especially handy during meetings, dinners, etc. There's a certain level of fidgeting with a watch that's socially acceptable even to Luddites where even a momentary glance at a cell phone ruffles feathers. Watch lets me tell my family I'm running a little late without the Big Boss getting agitated or lets work ask me a quick question without it turning into "working at the dinner table." It's a small thing, but it's great for maintaining the peace.
For apps you're actually going to poke at on the watch screen? Complete and total rubbish. For me, what it does well makes it invaluable. I'm sure others' priorities are different.
If the chaos resulted in reduced scope about as often as it resulted in increased scope, then you might well see symmetry in the over-/under-run of estimates. It's far more common for new features or unforeseen requirements to be added to the scope of work than for anything to be removed.
There's chaos in the development process itself that results in some things taking longer or shorter than initially expected. The external chaos of shifting requirements turns what happens during development itself into a rounding error.
"Bixby, can you please keep my phone from exploding in my pocket?"
"I'm sorry, that's not implemented yet."
You know the CPU & RAM in the trashcans are all socketed, right? MacOS doesn't support the very latest Intel dies right now, but you *can* pop out the CPU and go up a few levels in the current hardware. Lots of server-pull Xeon's on eBay right now will fit in it & work fine.
They're still WAY overdue for a true upgrade (not just a "refresh"), and it would be nice if they offer truly latest generation options for a change, but the situation isn't quite as dire in the current cans as you make it out to be.
My local theater's idea of enhanced theater sound is turn the volume up until it distorts or the patrons' ears start bleeding (whichever comes second), then turn it down a quarter notch. I guarantee my stacked Advents are a better listening experience than the "RPX" theater.
I'd say there are at least some times when a certain amount of human "knowledge" beats the magic app box.
I agree that drivers who use real time traffic data are likely to do a better job, but having a basic understanding of the entire city's street layout without being beholden to a GPS device is a really valuable skill for a driver. The tech can certainly augment human knowledge by providing dynamically changing information they couldn't otherwise know, but it's an inferior substitute for a driver who instantly knows several viable routes to get where they're going.
There's no shortage of W-2 abuse in the US. You need N hours to qualify for benefits? Oh look, N-1 hours on your "full time" schedule AGAIN! Sucks to be you. But remember, we need full time availability & you don't get your schedule until two days before so good luck getting another "full time" job to fill in!
Gig economy isn't that different than the reality many people face working W-2. If anything it's more honest about the fact that there's no safety net and you need to keep working until you're dead. The idea of "having a retirement" is romanticized, but it's not going to happen for probably a majority of workers in the US.
I honestly can't believe that nobody thought to get a business method patent on providing protection against patents.
I’m not going to feel too bad for the family of that guy when the families of the (number of accidents * 40%) who didn’t die are still happily running around. There are fewer accidents on the whole with Autopilot than without it. That’s a clear win.
Also, if this is the case I think it is, the driver was a douche and completely at fault. He made a habit of posting videos of himself using Autopilot improperly. IE completely not paying attention to the road like he should have been. Stupidity caught up with him. Send a Darwin Award to the family of “Florida Man” (yup, him again. . .) and move on.
And yeah, my level of human compassion for stupid people is borderline sociopath most days.
Your hands won't be cold.
A good abacus lasts generations too, but for some reason we moved up to programmable calculators. My grandmother still has her rotary telephone, but for some reason lots of people have smart phones that don't even need to be plugged into the wall to make a call.
Just because there isn't a use case that appeals to you doesn't mean the entire class of technology is worthless to the entire world.
It's ok. We're not on your lawn.
If you have multiple release versions open in one sprint, you're kind of doing it wrong. Ship one version this sprint then move on to the next version in the next sprint. If you have tickets that span versions, you've really got epics and need to break things up more.
So there's this thing called configuration options? If you don't want the emails for particular events, turn them off. If you have some barbarian of a JIRA admin who won't let you customize that stuff, invest in tar and/or feathers.
I agree that most of Atlassian's stuff is overpriced bloated crap, but comparing JIRA and Bugzilla is like comparing dial-up and FIOS and claiming they're both internet access from your phone company, so they're the same.
We looked at and rejected Confluence because MediaWiki is free, less resource intensive, and works. We rejected Bamboo because we find Quickbuild (another commercial product) is cheaper, less resource intensive, and much easier to use than Bamboo or Jenkins. Commercial packagings of OpenSource VCS systems like SVN or Git give me hives, and I won't touch them.
But... Especially when you need your ticketing system used by non-programmers, JIRA beats out Bugzilla in user friendliness, workflow tracking, and a bunch of other important features. It's not even a contest. We tried both Bugzilla and TRAC, but JIRA won hands down in terms of user acceptance. That's probably the most important metric there is for a ticketing system.
This might be a neat case to finally establish real hard money lost to lousy security. Not hand-wavey lost time & estimated fraud and other made up^W^W statistically supported dollars, but no-shit, we really lost this many millions because we screwed up. Put that in your spreadsheet & smoke it...
If you want a laptop as opposed to a tablet you can stick a keyboard onto, I've found the Surface (both 2 Pro & 4 Pro) to be disappointing. The folding keyboard and touch pad are miserable to use. The feeling of the keyboard is really .. I dunno.. sloppy.. Tough to describe in words, but no fun to do any amount of typing on. The touch pad has both a right/left mouse button, but there's no visual or tactile delineation where the mouse "button" stops and the normal pad starts nor where the border between left & right buttons are. I'm constantly getting right when I want left, or tapping too high for right & getting the default left on the main body of the touch pad. The pen input is nice-ish to take hand written notes, but the Apple Pencil on an iPad is much more accurate. Looking at MS OneNote where I've taken notes on both devices, the Surface looks like I'm writing in crayon compared to the sharpness of the Apple Pencil notes.
I still get more use out of my five+ year old MacBook Pro than I do the Surface. The Surface does a lot of the functionality of both a laptop & a tablet, but it doesn't do any of it nearly as well as the separate devices do. If you're looking to travel light & small and don't mind dealing with daily annoyance on a lot of the functionality, maybe the Surface is good enough. I just find it annoying to use. I'll grab it when I'm going out for an evening and *might* need to answer a call for work, but if I'm actually planning to get any real work done, the Surface collects dust & I grab a real laptop.
Show me where in the terms is said, "While this television is an Android-based computer and reasonably accepted industry standards include a way of reloading fresh operating software from scratch on such computers, this computer has no such function."
The "everything's a computer" IoT industry has a LONG way to go in terms of disclosing limitations of the devices they're producing. Both sides of the techy and non-techy world have expectations for these devices that are generally agreed upon for other devices of their type in either the consumer electronics or computing device camps. Non-techies have a reasonable expectation that a TV is a box that shows pictures and can't be infected by malware. Techies understand that smart TV's are actually computer that might have malware vulnerabilities and further presume that like all other computers they should have some way to reset them and completely erase any infection.
Manufacturers are falling short of both camp's expectations, and they're also failing to disclose the true nature of the devices to consumers. They're producing devices that are simultaneously unprecedentedly vulnerable by TV standards and unrepairable by computer standards. The only way for a consumer to find these things out is to buy it and find out the hard way. That's not acceptable.