It's OK, once the TPPA comes into force the door will be closed again. It's not as if the corporates don't have a plan B for this. And C. And D as well, just in case.
the largest seller by far of Android handsets was still Samsung: Crap hardware, with their own crap modifications to the Android software, plus even more crap added by the carriers.
Oh come on, they're great value if you're stuck in Liberty City for a few days armed with nothing more than a satchel full of Note 7s.
Any reasonably fast device running Android 6.0 or higher must enable encryption by default.
Or what, the Google police turn up and redirect all of their search engine results to Gizoogle? I'm running a relatively recent Android 6.01 phone (recent phone, older OS, as you get with Android) and it sure ain't got any encryption enabled anywhere.
My feelings exactly. While it's possible to, in theory, put together a combination of hardware and software that's somewhat secure for Android (nowhere near what Apple's custom engineering have managed), you're usually getting an unsupported, unpatched vendor-specific hack of last year's version on the cheapest hardware they can assemble.
With Apple you're getting supported, updated software on hardware where they've made a good effort to make it secure. And I'm saying that as a long-term Android user (sigh).
+1. In my case it's a 10" Android tablet, but it's the same thing there, there's nothing in any newer tablet that makes it worth upgrading. It's the homeostasis point that PCs reached about what, ten years ago, but it only took a few years with tablets.
unmanned drones replacing all armed air roles, even all single-pilot planes, is decades away. We can do some fairly minimal stuff now with drones against low-tech opponents with no EW capability at all
Right, because we're constantly fighting other advanced nations in air-to-air combat, but only very rarely have to deal with low-tech opponents with no EW capabilty.
WTF sort of search did you use to turn up that lot? I can't see vi, emacs, or ed in there, and I'm not sure there are other text editors. Were you searching for unicorns or something?
Microsoft had the leading smartphone OS before it was called a smartphone
They've still got a very widely-deployed smartphone OS, only for some unfathomable reason they've decided it needs to be running on everyone's desktop/laptop PCs.
The laptop in the picture has what seems like a "contextual" OLED display (some are calling it Magic Toolbar display) on the top.
Ugh, they've reinvented Lenovo's ill-fated "adaptive keyboard", the one where everyone skipped that entire generation of ultrabooks if they could, either sticking with the Gen1 or trading up to the Gen3 when they realised how awful it was. Apple, read the Lenovo forums for comments on the Gen2 keyboard. There are even howtos on hacking OEM-channel Gen1 keyboards onto the adaptive-keyboard Gen2 to make them less awful. Or look at the secondary-market prices for Gen2's, they're easier to get and cheaper than the much older Gen1's. After the Gen3 came out you could buy Gen2s by the pallet-load as everyone ditched them.
The headline is wrong, as usual. In fact even reading the summary shows you it can't be right:
Coal power plants supplied close to 39 percent of the world's power in 2015, while renewables, including old hydropower dams, accounted for 23 percent, IEA data show
So renewables are around half of what coal is. If you look at the original article, even just the sub-header, you'll see that:
153 GigaWatts of renewables make up over half the new capacity added globally.
That's "new capacity added so far this year", not "total capacity" as the headline here claims.
Oh no, it's all true, they just forgot to mention that they also burn ten times as intensely, and explode with a yield where you'd normally expect to find fission byproducts. Samsung are already prepping them for the upcoming Galaxy M67.
The only thing I've ever heard about them was their smart phones, which are apparently appallingly awful, and only available in pink!
You forgot to mention that they're all made in sweatshops by buck-toothed little Asians who can't drive, wear glasses, and are all martial arts experts.
Just for the record, I own a silver (not rose gold) LeEco, it's a really nice phone, a bit like a Samsung Galaxy but at a fraction of the price and without the incendiary tendencies. I have several friends who have them as well.
Only in some circumstances. That blue beam of Cherenkov radiation shooting up into the sky with the core uncovered does look pretty though, you'd never get that with coal.
It's not about support, it's about security. Knox (only on Samsung) is the closest you can get to decent security on Android,
By Knox I assume you mean Samsung's backdoored malware-injection vector? You can get the same "security" by visiting the alternative Android app store at virusbucket.ru.
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It's OK, once the TPPA comes into force the door will be closed again. It's not as if the corporates don't have a plan B for this. And C. And D as well, just in case.
the largest seller by far of Android handsets was still Samsung: Crap hardware, with their own crap modifications to the Android software, plus even more crap added by the carriers.
Oh come on, they're great value if you're stuck in Liberty City for a few days armed with nothing more than a satchel full of Note 7s.
Now all we need is some AmigaHoles to make it complete.
Any reasonably fast device running Android 6.0 or higher must enable encryption by default.
Or what, the Google police turn up and redirect all of their search engine results to Gizoogle? I'm running a relatively recent Android 6.01 phone (recent phone, older OS, as you get with Android) and it sure ain't got any encryption enabled anywhere.
My feelings exactly. While it's possible to, in theory, put together a combination of hardware and software that's somewhat secure for Android (nowhere near what Apple's custom engineering have managed), you're usually getting an unsupported, unpatched vendor-specific hack of last year's version on the cheapest hardware they can assemble.
With Apple you're getting supported, updated software on hardware where they've made a good effort to make it secure. And I'm saying that as a long-term Android user (sigh).
Typing with an accent is a real thing.
Typing with accent is real thing. FTFY.
Ah, a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe. They're so perky, I love that.
Except lamb skin success rate is much lower than a normal condom.
Depends. If the lamb is still inside the skin at the time, it's 100% effective at preventing pregnancies.
I have a method that's rather more effective than that, and all it requires is one jab as well.
Followed shortly afterwards by a snip.
+1. In my case it's a 10" Android tablet, but it's the same thing there, there's nothing in any newer tablet that makes it worth upgrading. It's the homeostasis point that PCs reached about what, ten years ago, but it only took a few years with tablets.
unmanned drones replacing all armed air roles, even all single-pilot planes, is decades away. We can do some fairly minimal stuff now with drones against low-tech opponents with no EW capability at all
Right, because we're constantly fighting other advanced nations in air-to-air combat, but only very rarely have to deal with low-tech opponents with no EW capabilty.
And wtf is wallonia..?
It's the post-independence name of South Elbonia.
Vladislav Surkov has commited suicide in front of the Kremlin.
... by tying himself up and shooting himself in the head half a dozen times while his hands were tied, stopping to reload on several occasions.
That was pretty fucking easy.
WTF sort of search did you use to turn up that lot? I can't see vi, emacs, or ed in there, and I'm not sure there are other text editors. Were you searching for unicorns or something?
Microsoft had the leading smartphone OS before it was called a smartphone
They've still got a very widely-deployed smartphone OS, only for some unfathomable reason they've decided it needs to be running on everyone's desktop/laptop PCs.
The laptop in the picture has what seems like a "contextual" OLED display (some are calling it Magic Toolbar display) on the top.
Ugh, they've reinvented Lenovo's ill-fated "adaptive keyboard", the one where everyone skipped that entire generation of ultrabooks if they could, either sticking with the Gen1 or trading up to the Gen3 when they realised how awful it was. Apple, read the Lenovo forums for comments on the Gen2 keyboard. There are even howtos on hacking OEM-channel Gen1 keyboards onto the adaptive-keyboard Gen2 to make them less awful. Or look at the secondary-market prices for Gen2's, they're easier to get and cheaper than the much older Gen1's. After the Gen3 came out you could buy Gen2s by the pallet-load as everyone ditched them.
It's OK, the headline is wrong, see the other replies that have pointed this out.
Positive side: You've demonstrated reading comprehension, which is better than the editors here have done.
The headline is wrong, as usual. In fact even reading the summary shows you it can't be right:
Coal power plants supplied close to 39 percent of the world's power in 2015, while renewables, including old hydropower dams, accounted for 23 percent, IEA data show
So renewables are around half of what coal is. If you look at the original article, even just the sub-header, you'll see that:
153 GigaWatts of renewables make up over half the new capacity added globally.
That's "new capacity added so far this year", not "total capacity" as the headline here claims.
Oh no, it's all true, they just forgot to mention that they also burn ten times as intensely, and explode with a yield where you'd normally expect to find fission byproducts. Samsung are already prepping them for the upcoming Galaxy M67.
In Putin Russia, GPS relocate you!
The only thing I've ever heard about them was their smart phones, which are apparently appallingly awful, and only available in pink!
You forgot to mention that they're all made in sweatshops by buck-toothed little Asians who can't drive, wear glasses, and are all martial arts experts.
Just for the record, I own a silver (not rose gold) LeEco, it's a really nice phone, a bit like a Samsung Galaxy but at a fraction of the price and without the incendiary tendencies. I have several friends who have them as well.
They were holding the Intel-modem phone wrong when they ran the test.
Only in some circumstances. That blue beam of Cherenkov radiation shooting up into the sky with the core uncovered does look pretty though, you'd never get that with coal.
It's not about support, it's about security. Knox (only on Samsung) is the closest you can get to decent security on Android,
By Knox I assume you mean Samsung's backdoored malware-injection vector? You can get the same "security" by visiting the alternative Android app store at virusbucket.ru.
Every time I turn on my Ford truck, here's what I have to do to connect my phone via bluetooth:
You're holding your truck wrong.