I can see this debate will never be resolved, so perhaps we can qualify it as "The largest four-engined turboprop seaplane whose model number begins with an AG built by a Chinese company between the years 2014 and 2017". That should do it.
+1. I got a LeEco phone in part because it doesn't have a giant pointless dust-and-dirt ingress port in it any more. Never used headphones on a phone, never will, and on the remote chance that I needed it for some reason I'd plug in a USB-C to 3.5mm jack. Sheesh, if people are so attached to their vintage audio jacks, make sure you buy a phone that has one. It's not like you're being forced at gunpoint to buy a LeEco or Lenovo.
+1. When I go to see a film, I want to see plot, acting, drama, not a 90-minute nVidia commercial. Compare something like Apocalypse Now with... well, any equivalent film from the last 15 years. It'd be all CGI explosions and effects, with only the actors being real.
Not necessarily. While the "Anti-terrorism Information Sharing Is Strength Act" has failed, the "War is Peace Act" and the "Freedom is Slavery Act" are still on the books.
No, no, I think you've got it wrong, they're going to pay users $7/month to use Windows 10. Not enough unfortunately, I'd maybe consider it for several hundred a month, but I'm not inflicting Win10 on anyone for a lousy $7/month.
It really depends on where the rust occurs. If it's just on the panelling or in the chrome then you can sand it down and repaint, but if it's structural rust you're pretty much hosed. Time to switch to Pale Moon, which hasn't started rusting yet.
Nahh, it's the cost of living. Have you seen housing/rental prices in the Bay Area? No wonder all the diseases are relocating to third-world countries, at least they can afford the lifestyle. Ever wonder why Zika is located in Rio but not Reno? Can't afford to live there.
Or just select your games appropriately. I have no problem with my hardware, a VT-55, running my game of choice, Nethack. Only problem is the EPROM character generator (a 1702) is now more than thirty years over its design life, and some of the pixels flicker on and off due to read disturbs.
About 10% seem to really know their shit, the rest are faking it, spending most of the time copying and pasting non-working code and then letting other people fix it. Some of them ask embarrassingly ignorant questions that expose them as completely unqualified, but because of the bargain-basement rates they work for, no one seems to give a shit.
This is exactly my experience with Indian developers. A small percentage are really good (just like Indian doctors were two decades ago before the degree mills killed the brand), and the rest are as you describe. Reactions like "how could this guy even pass the job interview, he doesn't know how to use a linker" aren't uncommon. I once spent two days essentially writing some guy's code for him via RDS until I convinced his boss that he shouldn't be let anywhere near anything that involved coding.
they would create a new Shakespeare play in no time at all. Better than coding.
Having had to unravel (well, more like throw out and rewrite) code that had been outsourced to Indian contractors, that goes some way to explaining how they seem to write code over there.
Another comment about this, and I don't really want it to be gratuitous bashing of the US ("I'm not a racist, but..."), why do these things always seem to happen in the US? The last time we had a shooting of more than a few people (something classifiable as a mass shooting, i.e. more than just an armed robbery gone wrong) here was about 25 years ago, and before that it was WWII. What's so different about the US, and given that we've got lots of reference points for countries where it isn't a problem, what are they doing that fixes it?
I'm not entirely sure if the same thing would happen in the U.S
Of course it could happen in the US. Hold a VR pr0n fest anywhere and you'll get attendees. Want to colonise Mars? Announce a VR Pr0n fest there, the punters will figure out a way to get there without any help from NASA, ESA, JAXA, or anyone else.
I'm not that knowledgeable about Star Trek, but from what I have seen, this makes no sense.
Of course it makes sense, its Star Wars that doesn't make any sense. Consider this: Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this discussion thread? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this thread! It does not make sense!
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No, the only thing that makes it "trusted" is that it's small, and isolated. Those characteristics reduce its attack surface and reduce the number of bugs it has, on average.
No, what makes it "trusted" is that ARM and/or the chip vendor repeatedly tell you it is in press releases. There have been several attacks on TrustZone devices which take advantage of the fact that it's often very poorly implemented, and much less secure than the non-TrustZone stuff. The classic example of this was the rooting of a Motorola phone which hacked the insecure TrustZone, then attacked the secure non-TrustZone stuff from inside the "trusted" environment. It was the presence of TrustZone that allowed the device to be rooted.
It's actually not hard to get helium in any case, just take some radioactive ore and wait awhile. I've got a nice batch of 4-H brewing up from a chunk of uraninite right now. My five-legged cat is keeping three eyes on it right now.
Actually, as the original article shows, the money seems to be in selling security services to hospitals. There's some general scaremongering about unnamed bogeymen targeting hospitals, and then a long discussion about how much you should be spending on security services, for example from Bitdefender, one of whose people wrote the article.
What I don't understand is WTF he "voluntarily" travelled to the US for. It'd be like an atheist "voluntarily" travelling to renaissance-era Spain to answer charges of heresy, there's only one way it can possibly end.
To put in a word in Lenovo's defence, it's actually quite a useful support tool, it runs periodic hardware diagnostic scans to make sure there are no problems (or potential failures), handles warranty issues, driver updates, etc, particularly useful to the large number of Lenovo business uses who can't afford to have their laptop die in the middle of something like a business trip due to a previously-undiagnosed hardware issue. If it wasn't for the endless security holes, it'd one of the few pieces of bundled vendor junk that's actually worth having.
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I can see this debate will never be resolved, so perhaps we can qualify it as "The largest four-engined turboprop seaplane whose model number begins with an AG built by a Chinese company between the years 2014 and 2017". That should do it.
+1. I got a LeEco phone in part because it doesn't have a giant pointless dust-and-dirt ingress port in it any more. Never used headphones on a phone, never will, and on the remote chance that I needed it for some reason I'd plug in a USB-C to 3.5mm jack. Sheesh, if people are so attached to their vintage audio jacks, make sure you buy a phone that has one. It's not like you're being forced at gunpoint to buy a LeEco or Lenovo.
I happen to be in Brighton, UK right now. No top hats and monocles. Lots of bikinis and hot pants, though.
Well, ya gotta display those pasty rolls of white dough somehow.
I'll just leave people with that image for awhile...
Damn autocorrect. Yeah, obviously it was Internal, not Internet, before Android decided to fix it.
WiPro, the famous Indian software outsourcer, gets its name from its origins: The West India Produce Company.
So its non-tech origins are a bit like Southern Pacific Rail Internet Network (Sprint) then?
+1. When I go to see a film, I want to see plot, acting, drama, not a 90-minute nVidia commercial. Compare something like Apocalypse Now with... well, any equivalent film from the last 15 years. It'd be all CGI explosions and effects, with only the actors being real.
the good guys win
Not necessarily. While the "Anti-terrorism Information Sharing Is Strength Act" has failed, the "War is Peace Act" and the "Freedom is Slavery Act" are still on the books.
No, no, I think you've got it wrong, they're going to pay users $7/month to use Windows 10. Not enough unfortunately, I'd maybe consider it for several hundred a month, but I'm not inflicting Win10 on anyone for a lousy $7/month.
It really depends on where the rust occurs. If it's just on the panelling or in the chrome then you can sand it down and repaint, but if it's structural rust you're pretty much hosed. Time to switch to Pale Moon, which hasn't started rusting yet.
Nahh, it's the cost of living. Have you seen housing/rental prices in the Bay Area? No wonder all the diseases are relocating to third-world countries, at least they can afford the lifestyle. Ever wonder why Zika is located in Rio but not Reno? Can't afford to live there.
Or just select your games appropriately. I have no problem with my hardware, a VT-55, running my game of choice, Nethack. Only problem is the EPROM character generator (a 1702) is now more than thirty years over its design life, and some of the pixels flicker on and off due to read disturbs.
About 10% seem to really know their shit, the rest are faking it, spending most of the time copying and pasting non-working code and then letting other people fix it. Some of them ask embarrassingly ignorant questions that expose them as completely unqualified, but because of the bargain-basement rates they work for, no one seems to give a shit.
This is exactly my experience with Indian developers. A small percentage are really good (just like Indian doctors were two decades ago before the degree mills killed the brand), and the rest are as you describe. Reactions like "how could this guy even pass the job interview, he doesn't know how to use a linker" aren't uncommon. I once spent two days essentially writing some guy's code for him via RDS until I convinced his boss that he shouldn't be let anywhere near anything that involved coding.
they would create a new Shakespeare play in no time at all. Better than coding.
Having had to unravel (well, more like throw out and rewrite) code that had been outsourced to Indian contractors, that goes some way to explaining how they seem to write code over there.
You have a great future in whining.
So maybe go work in Napa Valley somewhere? There are lots of little lifestyle whineries there.
Not only that, but they also seem to have ripped a lot of it off "Countdown to Zero Day", an even bigger ethical lapse.
Another comment about this, and I don't really want it to be gratuitous bashing of the US ("I'm not a racist, but..."), why do these things always seem to happen in the US? The last time we had a shooting of more than a few people (something classifiable as a mass shooting, i.e. more than just an armed robbery gone wrong) here was about 25 years ago, and before that it was WWII. What's so different about the US, and given that we've got lots of reference points for countries where it isn't a problem, what are they doing that fixes it?
It's OK, he wasn't black.
I'm not entirely sure if the same thing would happen in the U.S
Of course it could happen in the US. Hold a VR pr0n fest anywhere and you'll get attendees. Want to colonise Mars? Announce a VR Pr0n fest there, the punters will figure out a way to get there without any help from NASA, ESA, JAXA, or anyone else.
I'm not that knowledgeable about Star Trek, but from what I have seen, this makes no sense.
Of course it makes sense, its Star Wars that doesn't make any sense. Consider this: Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this discussion thread? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this thread! It does not make sense!
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No, the only thing that makes it "trusted" is that it's small, and isolated. Those characteristics reduce its attack surface and reduce the number of bugs it has, on average.
No, what makes it "trusted" is that ARM and/or the chip vendor repeatedly tell you it is in press releases. There have been several attacks on TrustZone devices which take advantage of the fact that it's often very poorly implemented, and much less secure than the non-TrustZone stuff. The classic example of this was the rooting of a Motorola phone which hacked the insecure TrustZone, then attacked the secure non-TrustZone stuff from inside the "trusted" environment. It was the presence of TrustZone that allowed the device to be rooted.
It's actually not hard to get helium in any case, just take some radioactive ore and wait awhile. I've got a nice batch of 4-H brewing up from a chunk of uraninite right now. My five-legged cat is keeping three eyes on it right now.
Actually, as the original article shows, the money seems to be in selling security services to hospitals. There's some general scaremongering about unnamed bogeymen targeting hospitals, and then a long discussion about how much you should be spending on security services, for example from Bitdefender, one of whose people wrote the article.
What I don't understand is WTF he "voluntarily" travelled to the US for. It'd be like an atheist "voluntarily" travelling to renaissance-era Spain to answer charges of heresy, there's only one way it can possibly end.
To put in a word in Lenovo's defence, it's actually quite a useful support tool, it runs periodic hardware diagnostic scans to make sure there are no problems (or potential failures), handles warranty issues, driver updates, etc, particularly useful to the large number of Lenovo business uses who can't afford to have their laptop die in the middle of something like a business trip due to a previously-undiagnosed hardware issue. If it wasn't for the endless security holes, it'd one of the few pieces of bundled vendor junk that's actually worth having.