I'd wager that most of the firefox use now is by IT personnel who use it for its extensions,
Yup, that is the sole reason I still use Firefox.
Fortunately, Mozilla has come up with a means of dealing with that when they break extension support in the near future. At that point there'll be no more reason to keep using it.
There's also the problem that, unless you know the specific magic trick to use, some quite critical characters simply can't be typed on a non-US keyboard. Try entering an email address using a German keyboard or the tri-valued keys on a French keyboard when you don't know the magic trick for the '@', for example. In the end I figured out that the easiest way to get it was with Ctrl-V, select the '@' from existing text and then hit Ctrl-V whenever you need to type it.
I feel your pain with the typing speed issues. Whoever decided the Norwegian keyboard needs to have keys for braces in the order {, [, ], } and only accessible via some AltGr combination needs to be killed and then eaten to prevent them from passing on the genes.
For that price - it is useless. I would much rather get a kangaroo for $99
Oh sure, yeah, a 'roo is cute when it's young, but have you ever stopped to think about what happens when it gets older? There are countless millions of loving, adoptable single-board computers put to death every year, simply because people keep making more of them to try to make money, and other people reward them for this by paying them for these SBCs when they could instead save an innocent older SBC from death by adopting.
Many people who buy 'roos later decide it's an inconvenience and get rid of them, adding yet more innocent SBCs to the huge numbers already sent to China and Africa for ecotoxic reprocessing.
If nobody bought, and everyone adopted older SBCs, nobody would manufacture new ones, and eventually, no innocent, adoptable SBCs would die. Nobody wants to admit responsibility and wants to pass the blame, but everyone who abandons, buys or builds new SBCs while they are being burned for the gold in their connectors has blood on their hands.
Every single European keyboard seems like it's been designed by a committee to make it impossible to code in. French, German, Norwegian (the ones I've used), it's no wonder most of the world's major software comes from the US, every time you want to type a square bracket or tilde or hash you have to spend five minutes figuring out how to generate it. Even this UK keyboard for some stoopid reason moves punctuation (= coding) keys into odd corners, so the # is way down there but at least there's a handy  key for all the times you need to use it (zero, ever). I know European programmers who import US keyboards because they're the only ones you can sanely code in.
The submitter mentioned "USB chargers with 12V input are available for less than 1 USD on eBay. They are likely all crap, though" which sounds like a UBEC, I wouldn't get a $1 one but the ones for a couple of dollars are fine, we use a ton of them, they take anything around 12V in and output 5V via various connectors (we use flying leads in, micro-USB out).
The shrinking economy then leads to less emissions. Its good that they can indeed cut their emissions, but it would be greater if they could continue to do it with their economy growing.
The phrase "cut their emissions" implies they took some sort of positive action to deal with their environmental problems, when in fact all that happened is that they manufactured less and so spewed less pollution. As soon as things recover, so will the emissions. So a more accurate characterisation would be "The Chinese recession caused emissions to drop. As soon as things recover, [Austrian]they'll be back[/Austrian]".
I'm sure Microsoft will soon be pushing out a patch, of which 10kB fixes the flaw and the other 118MB install 15 different services and apps that all try and force you to downgrade to Windows 10.
Looks like they're trying to update the 1990s travesty in which families were broken up by social services for taking baby photos to the drugstore for printing and some over-zealous checkout operator reported them for child porn. Now it's baby photos on laptops that will land you in jail.
Having someone say "This looks pretty bad, perhaps I should report it" is one thing, but saying "If you don't report anything that someone else might at some point consider bad, goto jail" is going to lead to the same mess that the prosecuted-for-taking-baby-photos mania created.
That's an important point, which the article makes several times:
Der Cyberbetrug beim oberÃsterreichischen Luftfahrtzulieferer FACC war kein Hackerangriff und kein Datendiebstahl, sagte ein Unternehmenssprecher am Mittwoch zur APA. Man wisse jetzt, dass "intern jemand benutzt" worden sei und sich die Betrugshandlungen im "Finanzbereich" von FACC abgespielt hÃtten.
"The fraud wasn't due to hackers and didn't arise from data theft. It was an inside job carried out in the finance department".
So it was ordinary fraud, they just used a computer, which you'd pretty much have to nowadays.
However, I have a big problem with some of the other software that resides on my phone, including apps and software that I don't want and especially a program called DT Ignite.
There's an app for that. Also, the carriers claim the bloatware downloads are zero-rated, although that's been a bit hard to verify.
The worst is the ones that have some sort of restriction on what characters you *can't* use in the password, because it means whoever programmed it had no clue what they were doing.
Like that news site, what's it called, Slashdot? Not in the passwords, on the site itself.
Like that Caribbean island (I won't name it..) that got 2nd on some list of countries with the most alcohol consumption-per-head.... They were pissed too.
Obviously not pissed enough to reach the number 1 spot.
There was a time when nearly every router could be hacked with admin/admin.
Why the use of past tense, has anything changed? In any case it's quite useful, when I'm at a motel somewhere and need to fix their wireless, it saves me having to guess whether they've used "password" or "password1" to keep me out.
No, as of recent months they've made it impossible to skip. You can Google for advice on getting around it, but it's all based on outdated information that doesn't work any more.
If the 3G -> 4G transition fiasco is anything to go by, their 5G will just be 4G redefined so they can market it as 5G. So if 4G is sufficient then (cough) "5G" should be fine as well.
We could also get it well before 2020, depending on how up-to-speed their marketing department is.
I think it's actually a brilliant idea. Once Google have locked out ISIS, the program can be expanded to also lock out Al Qaeda, drug dealers, pedophiles, people who object to the CIA's kidnapping and torture programs, copyright infringers, Anonymous (every single one of them), anti-TPP protesters, pornographers, whistleblowers, movie downloaders, and finally, people who complain about how censored the web has become.
Given the ongoing failure to launch of IBE, and the UK government's long track record of not being able to make something like this work, going back to Red Pike twenty years ago, I don't think there's much to be concerned about. Pushing this through would be like the NPfIT/Connecting for Health, but not as simple, cheap, and straightforward.
The difference between a CUSTOMER (which we track) and PEOPLE (which we do not), is that the latter has legal and human rights and is worthy of respect.
Did you really just say that your customers have no legal and human rights and are not worthy of respect?
This may be reading too much into the whole thing. IBE by design (there's no way to avoid this) relies on a third party to do the keygen for you. This isn't some evil key-escrow conspiracy, it's just the way IBE works. Academic cryptographers have had a hard-on for IBE for years, conveniently ignoring the fact that it has key escrow built in (I've had some pretty weird conversations with some of them over this, "it's not key escrow, lalalalalala, it's not key escrow").
The cited paper isn't necessarily an evil government key escrow paper, it's just another in a long string of "isn't IBE wonderful, it will solve all our problems" papers. I've seen the same thing come from academics at universities (over and over again, IBE is just so cool), the only thing that makes this one stand out is that it was published by someone with government affiliations so it's possible to turn it into an evil conspiracy.
The only redeeming feature of IBE is that it's so obviously academic wank that the industry has stayed away in droves. There have been a few experimental-status drafts put forward from the academics for inclusion in standards, but they've been largely ignored.
The US now prefers killing poor people in 3rd world countries with robots. Not very brave or noble. Not very good for our standing in the world. Not good for poor people in 3rd world countries.
In fact, it isn't good for anyone but defense contractors.
It's also absolutely brilliant for Al Qaeda and friends, even more so than the defence contractors. The US achieves essentially zero through their robot assassination programs for themselves (on the off chance that they do hit something other than women, children, and old people, they're quickly and easily replaced), but creates a hugely visible motivation for recruitment into terrorist organisations to avenge the killings.
Of course then you need even more drone strikes to deal with that, so perhaps that's the whole plan, the more terrorists your drone strikes recruit, the more drones General Atomics and friends get to sell...
And that's a real problem with the SJW approach to dealing with what they define as harassment, it's seriously damaging the ability to teach. It's so difficult, meaning risky, for a guy to mentor female students, that some have just given up ("Look at the evil sexist, he won't take female students!"). When you can't ever close your office door for a quiet discussion and have to have a chaperone present at a private research meeting because of what might get said about it later, you're creating a toxic environment for everyone. Sure, there's a problem with harassment (it's present everywhere), but creating the thoughtcrime environment the SJWs want isn't the answer.
They also only compared it to a bunch of random crappy Best Buy routers, how does it compare to Ruckus, Aruba, and others? If they're trying to compete with high-end APs/routers (and the prices are getting close), they should be evaluated against those, not just half a dozen other vendors' repackaging of the same Broadcom chipset.
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Naah, you want Louis Balfour from Jazz Club. Niiice.
I'd wager that most of the firefox use now is by IT personnel who use it for its extensions,
Yup, that is the sole reason I still use Firefox.
Fortunately, Mozilla has come up with a means of dealing with that when they break extension support in the near future. At that point there'll be no more reason to keep using it.
There's also the problem that, unless you know the specific magic trick to use, some quite critical characters simply can't be typed on a non-US keyboard. Try entering an email address using a German keyboard or the tri-valued keys on a French keyboard when you don't know the magic trick for the '@', for example. In the end I figured out that the easiest way to get it was with Ctrl-V, select the '@' from existing text and then hit Ctrl-V whenever you need to type it.
I feel your pain with the typing speed issues. Whoever decided the Norwegian keyboard needs to have keys for braces in the order {, [, ], } and only accessible via some AltGr combination needs to be killed and then eaten to prevent them from passing on the genes.
For that price - it is useless. I would much rather get a kangaroo for $99
Oh sure, yeah, a 'roo is cute when it's young, but have you ever stopped to think about what happens when it gets older? There are countless millions of loving, adoptable single-board computers put to death every year, simply because people keep making more of them to try to make money, and other people reward them for this by paying them for these SBCs when they could instead save an innocent older SBC from death by adopting.
Many people who buy 'roos later decide it's an inconvenience and get rid of them, adding yet more innocent SBCs to the huge numbers already sent to China and Africa for ecotoxic reprocessing.
If nobody bought, and everyone adopted older SBCs, nobody would manufacture new ones, and eventually, no innocent, adoptable SBCs would die. Nobody wants to admit responsibility and wants to pass the blame, but everyone who abandons, buys or builds new SBCs while they are being burned for the gold in their connectors has blood on their hands.
Remember, a 'roo isn't just for Christmas.
Every single European keyboard seems like it's been designed by a committee to make it impossible to code in. French, German, Norwegian (the ones I've used), it's no wonder most of the world's major software comes from the US, every time you want to type a square bracket or tilde or hash you have to spend five minutes figuring out how to generate it. Even this UK keyboard for some stoopid reason moves punctuation (= coding) keys into odd corners, so the # is way down there but at least there's a handy  key for all the times you need to use it (zero, ever). I know European programmers who import US keyboards because they're the only ones you can sanely code in.
The submitter mentioned "USB chargers with 12V input are available for less than 1 USD on eBay. They are likely all crap, though" which sounds like a UBEC, I wouldn't get a $1 one but the ones for a couple of dollars are fine, we use a ton of them, they take anything around 12V in and output 5V via various connectors (we use flying leads in, micro-USB out).
The shrinking economy then leads to less emissions. Its good that they can indeed cut their emissions, but it would be greater if they could continue to do it with their economy growing.
The phrase "cut their emissions" implies they took some sort of positive action to deal with their environmental problems, when in fact all that happened is that they manufactured less and so spewed less pollution. As soon as things recover, so will the emissions. So a more accurate characterisation would be "The Chinese recession caused emissions to drop. As soon as things recover, [Austrian]they'll be back[/Austrian]".
I'm sure Microsoft will soon be pushing out a patch, of which 10kB fixes the flaw and the other 118MB install 15 different services and apps that all try and force you to downgrade to Windows 10.
Looks like they're trying to update the 1990s travesty in which families were broken up by social services for taking baby photos to the drugstore for printing and some over-zealous checkout operator reported them for child porn. Now it's baby photos on laptops that will land you in jail.
Having someone say "This looks pretty bad, perhaps I should report it" is one thing, but saying "If you don't report anything that someone else might at some point consider bad, goto jail" is going to lead to the same mess that the prosecuted-for-taking-baby-photos mania created.
That's an important point, which the article makes several times:
Der Cyberbetrug beim oberÃsterreichischen Luftfahrtzulieferer FACC war kein Hackerangriff und kein Datendiebstahl, sagte ein Unternehmenssprecher am Mittwoch zur APA. Man wisse jetzt, dass "intern jemand benutzt" worden sei und sich die Betrugshandlungen im "Finanzbereich" von FACC abgespielt hÃtten.
"The fraud wasn't due to hackers and didn't arise from data theft. It was an inside job carried out in the finance department".
So it was ordinary fraud, they just used a computer, which you'd pretty much have to nowadays.
However, I have a big problem with some of the other software that resides on my phone, including apps and software that I don't want and especially a program called DT Ignite.
There's an app for that. Also, the carriers claim the bloatware downloads are zero-rated, although that's been a bit hard to verify.
The worst is the ones that have some sort of restriction on what characters you *can't* use in the password, because it means whoever programmed it had no clue what they were doing.
Like that news site, what's it called, Slashdot? Not in the passwords, on the site itself.
Like that Caribbean island (I won't name it..) that got 2nd on some list of countries with the most alcohol consumption-per-head.... They were pissed too.
Obviously not pissed enough to reach the number 1 spot.
There was a time when nearly every router could be hacked with admin/admin.
Why the use of past tense, has anything changed? In any case it's quite useful, when I'm at a motel somewhere and need to fix their wireless, it saves me having to guess whether they've used "password" or "password1" to keep me out.
Isn't there a "skip" link, somewhere down there?
No, as of recent months they've made it impossible to skip. You can Google for advice on getting around it, but it's all based on outdated information that doesn't work any more.
If the 3G -> 4G transition fiasco is anything to go by, their 5G will just be 4G redefined so they can market it as 5G. So if 4G is sufficient then (cough) "5G" should be fine as well.
We could also get it well before 2020, depending on how up-to-speed their marketing department is.
I think it's actually a brilliant idea. Once Google have locked out ISIS, the program can be expanded to also lock out Al Qaeda, drug dealers, pedophiles, people who object to the CIA's kidnapping and torture programs, copyright infringers, Anonymous (every single one of them), anti-TPP protesters, pornographers, whistleblowers, movie downloaders, and finally, people who complain about how censored the web has become.
It also seems a bit sad that "Open-source CPU/GPU actually used for something!" qualifies as newsworthy...
Sure, you can always user superencryption.
Given the ongoing failure to launch of IBE, and the UK government's long track record of not being able to make something like this work, going back to Red Pike twenty years ago, I don't think there's much to be concerned about. Pushing this through would be like the NPfIT/Connecting for Health, but not as simple, cheap, and straightforward.
The difference between a CUSTOMER (which we track) and PEOPLE (which we do not), is that the latter has legal and human rights and is worthy of respect.
Did you really just say that your customers have no legal and human rights and are not worthy of respect?
Ever read an EULA?
Where's the war on illiteracy, on mental illness, on unwanted pregnancies, on homelessness?
It's doing about as well as the war on drugs from what I hear.
This may be reading too much into the whole thing. IBE by design (there's no way to avoid this) relies on a third party to do the keygen for you. This isn't some evil key-escrow conspiracy, it's just the way IBE works. Academic cryptographers have had a hard-on for IBE for years, conveniently ignoring the fact that it has key escrow built in (I've had some pretty weird conversations with some of them over this, "it's not key escrow, lalalalalala, it's not key escrow").
The cited paper isn't necessarily an evil government key escrow paper, it's just another in a long string of "isn't IBE wonderful, it will solve all our problems" papers. I've seen the same thing come from academics at universities (over and over again, IBE is just so cool), the only thing that makes this one stand out is that it was published by someone with government affiliations so it's possible to turn it into an evil conspiracy.
The only redeeming feature of IBE is that it's so obviously academic wank that the industry has stayed away in droves. There have been a few experimental-status drafts put forward from the academics for inclusion in standards, but they've been largely ignored.
The US now prefers killing poor people in 3rd world countries with robots. Not very brave or noble. Not very good for our standing in the world. Not good for poor people in 3rd world countries.
In fact, it isn't good for anyone but defense contractors.
It's also absolutely brilliant for Al Qaeda and friends, even more so than the defence contractors. The US achieves essentially zero through their robot assassination programs for themselves (on the off chance that they do hit something other than women, children, and old people, they're quickly and easily replaced), but creates a hugely visible motivation for recruitment into terrorist organisations to avenge the killings.
Of course then you need even more drone strikes to deal with that, so perhaps that's the whole plan, the more terrorists your drone strikes recruit, the more drones General Atomics and friends get to sell...
And that's a real problem with the SJW approach to dealing with what they define as harassment, it's seriously damaging the ability to teach. It's so difficult, meaning risky, for a guy to mentor female students, that some have just given up ("Look at the evil sexist, he won't take female students!"). When you can't ever close your office door for a quiet discussion and have to have a chaperone present at a private research meeting because of what might get said about it later, you're creating a toxic environment for everyone. Sure, there's a problem with harassment (it's present everywhere), but creating the thoughtcrime environment the SJWs want isn't the answer.
They also only compared it to a bunch of random crappy Best Buy routers, how does it compare to Ruckus, Aruba, and others? If they're trying to compete with high-end APs/routers (and the prices are getting close), they should be evaluated against those, not just half a dozen other vendors' repackaging of the same Broadcom chipset.