And since the Firefox developer team has a big subset of that demographic, is quite clear why this was included.
All the rest of us, who carefully configured our DNS resolvers (or set up our own DNS servers), get screwed by default. Please tell me how to turn this off in Firefox for Mac/Android...
All the hipster developers using wifi in starbucks and other hipster coffee shops should be thanking Mozilla right now. All the rest of us, not so much.
PS: How does this work when one needs to go to a captive web portal in order to authenticate on the Wifi?
I am certain that this is a small glitch, and will be resolved quite fast.
But nonetheless, it will serve as the perfect excuse for all sorts of manufacturers to either justify that the phones arrived late masking their own incompetence, or to slightly jack up the prices...
If we look at BRANDS, Q2 is Samsung first (loosing share), Huawei second (gaining share fast) and Apple Third (ganing share slowly).
But, if we look at MANUFACTURERS, Samsung is first (losing share), BBK is second (gainig share fast), Huawei is third (gaining share fast) and Apple is fourth (gainig share slowly).
Samsung and Aplle only have their namesake brands, while Huawei has the Huawei and Honor Brands, and BBK has the Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus and other brands in their stable.
Go check the references i put there instead. Do not settle yourself for just one rant/article. Expand your knowledge.
The articles (there is more than one article related to the topic in both magazines). Those articles were written by people far smarter than me. And those people did far mor eproof-reading than what I am willing to do on a Slashdot post, even when posting with a username.
In those articles, they cite studies done by people even smarter than the writters themselves. By transitivity, the cited people are way+far smarter than me.
So, again, do not believe me, check the references (and the references in the references) by yourself.
I know I did.
* Perhaps I can claim I coined the portmenau rantticle, as a complement to listicle.
Whether or not you welcome it isn't important as you are not that bright - as we've seen with medicine costs, U.S. companies will be sure that all costs of these systems around the world are on the backs of U.S. citizens once they are convinced/forced to use
I said quite clearly that I am not in the US. So, if the costs of those systems around the world are on the back of US citizens, that's an indirect subsidy for me, and all others around the world.
conspiracy theories aside... who is "not that bright" now?:-P;-)
The biggest factor in wealth building is the time value of money. Every year that you remain in Venezuela waiting for that lottery ticket out is another year where you weren't making forward progress somewhere else
My Finance and Economy teachers said as much in my MBA in Madrid...;-)
Especially for an educated person who speaks, reads and writes English, like yourself for example
Et Francais aussi.;-) (goes without the cedille, due to Slashdot's stubornness in supporting UTF-8)
Either here in the US, EU, Canada, Australia, etc.
Actually, even a LatAm country would be good enough for me. Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru give migration facilities to Venezuelans nowadays. But again, is more of an emotional issue, not a knowledge one.
Canada has a points based immigration system so if you can demonstrate high skill levels in critical technical areas you may have a leg up
Canada is a no go. For one, I am single and 40plus, for the other, they have hardened their stance on Venezuelans seeking residence. (I considered Canada as an option, and did my due diligence).
Good luck
Thank you for the good wishes, and also for the interest, and the time you took to write. Only time will tell.
By the way, a couple of the points I responded with humor, this is not to be confused with sarcasm.
I love cash, but electronic money is more convenient, more versatile and great.
Just ask a non-bancarized guy in Kenya or Tanzania using M-Pesa about it... And trust me when I tell you that Safaricom and Vodafone did not implement this from the goodness of their hears, but for pure profit, and yet, it ended up raising the living standards of the people at large, and specialy of those non-bancarized.
Yes, if we look at electronic money and a cashless society from the optic of a westener who has enough diposable income to aford a computer and knows what this "internet" thing is, is all doom and gloom.
But once we try to get ourselves in the whorn -out shoes of less fortunate people that make less than $1 a day (and for me, being in Venezuela, this is easier, as is not a tought experiemnt, but a reality I see everyday) we see that electronic money can be beneficial for everyone, warts and all...
So, I for one, welcome our e-money overlords... Yes, I wish there would still be cash, but... whatever benefits the many is ok by me...
but still, are lacking in the security department.
VMs in theory should be more secure, but in practice, Hypervisors are such huge behemoths that there are always security holes in the hypervisor.
In reality, discussing the relative security between containers and VMs is like discussing how many angels can dance in the head of a pin, a futile excersice.
the relative security will ebb and flow, some times in favour of VMs, sometimes in favour of Containers.
But in the end, it will not matter, as we all will end up running our containers inside VMs, sacrificing some of the performance gains of containers for the HUUUGE sysadmin advantages of VMs.
How interesting it is, then, that Antivirus vendors are still implementing Antivirus for Mac and linux.
Even MORE so, they are implementing antivirus that hooks into your Virtualization/cloud platforms to protect your VMs, both virtual servers and Virtual Desktops...
But hey, I guess I'll better surrender my geek credentials, as well as all the people working in ClamAV, and all the engineers and managers that are working in such a clear dead end technologies as Mac and Linux antivirus at those companies (and many more).
After all, is soo clear for me now, you and Anon coward can not be wrong.
1.) With any luck, the AV engine that Google runs will e different to the AV engine that my antivirus runs.
2.) As TFA said, malware disguises itself as beningn, and then downloads the malign part. Maybe all AV packages may miss the bennign part, but only an AV running on the phone itself will deteckt (pun intended) and hopefully block the trully malign part.
3.) The Antivirus I run, gives me other goodies (licke bricking the phone in case the SIM changes). Maybe the antivirus you choose will give you some other goodies too.
... and in my mac, and in my Synology NAS, and in my windows (mostly virtual) machines.
If it is a General purpose computer, and you can install software written by someone else on it, even if the software only comes from an "App Store" that alegedly checks said software, one has to run an antivirus.
that goes for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, ChromeOS, Fuscia, etc.
The problem with 4G in portsmouth is that Nyarlathotep is interfering with 4G signals so that people can not post acurate photos of him before they succumb to maddness, and their phones are destroyed.
Funny! I have several persons in my circle of friends and acquaintances who still use 2G phones and don't want anything else. And why should they? Why should someone need to use the internet at all with their mobile phone? But then again telcos won't try to switch them off anytime soon in the country where I live, I guess.
Actually, maybe in the country were you live those 2G and 3G phones will be swtiched off sooner than you think.
I live in Venezuela, and it will happen, In india is happening already. Only africa remains a question mark about 2G 3G shutdown.
See, spectrum is expensive, equipment shelters are overcrowded, spectrum is super-expensive, communities are reluctants to allow new anteannas (for "reassons"), and 5G needs lots and lots of small coverage antenas.
So, a way to 5G is to eliminate the 2G and 3G equipment (freeing up electricity and space in the towers), and refarmiong the spectrum (saving money on spectrum purchases) as well as simplifiying O&M (with the corresponding cost reductions).
there are LTE "Dumbphones" for around $80 (in india are more or less free). And those will only get cheaper as time pases.
I use 2G and 3G systems for my data logging projects. They are much cheaper. Eventually I am afraid I will need to use a full 4G LTE system (at least in the US).
You do not need to use a "full 4G LTE" system for data logging. Neither in the US, nor anywhere else. You WILL need to abandon 2G and 3G pretty much worldwide between 2020 and 2025, but do not need full 4G LTe for M2M communications (which includes data logging)
You can use LTE-M, a simpler variant of LTE, aproved in 2013 specificaly for M2M (like data logging) communications.
It goes easy on cost because of simpler modems and economies of scale because it is a pretty much single standard, and is very light on battery use (in line or even less than 2G, depending on Frequency Band, lower is better).
Why should it? I still use a 2G feature phone since it does everything I need, i can operate it without looking at the screen and while wearing gloves and the battery lasts over a week on standby. What is so welcome about me having to spend money on a phone with 4G when I don't need the functionality?
By that same token, analog phones worked fine! Why did they sunseted the standard? Oh, the Nikel-Cadmium batteries contaminated the soil more than the lithium ion of today, and while there were less phones back then, those contaminated more and used more raw materials.
The same could be said about IS-54/136, or CDMA2000, or TD-SCDMA... Those worked fine... Why discontinue them?
Anyway, you do not need to buy a smartphone to enjoy the benefits of 4G, here you can have this phone for around $80. It has 4G. You can operate it without watching the screen, you can operate it using gloves, the battery lasts for 25 days on standby (or 7.5 hours of 4G talk), and you can hang up mechanicaly.
The internet thing is a bonus, if you decide to use it in a pinch.
My first free unix was FreeBSD in 1995, but it was not useful for my purposes, so I tried Slackware in 1996. I even bought "the book" (Slackware unleashed, i do not remember the version), mainly for the CD (In venezuela, BW was and still is scarce).
Sadly, slackware and linux were also not fit for purpose (my thesis), so I moved past of Slackware to the greener pastures of RedHat and Suse. Nonetheless, I also learned HP-UX, Solaris, and Even Sinix, so I think my *nix is quite Ok.
Nonetheless, I still have fond memories of Slackware, and get very happy when I hear news about them.
A toast to patrick for the 25 years of his project, and a pint for his tenacity to overcome the obstacles (financial, health and others) to keep it running.
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... need this feature a lot.
And since the Firefox developer team has a big subset of that demographic, is quite clear why this was included.
All the rest of us, who carefully configured our DNS resolvers (or set up our own DNS servers), get screwed by default. Please tell me how to turn this off in Firefox for Mac/Android...
All the hipster developers using wifi in starbucks and other hipster coffee shops should be thanking Mozilla right now. All the rest of us, not so much.
PS: How does this work when one needs to go to a captive web portal in order to authenticate on the Wifi?
I am certain that this is a small glitch, and will be resolved quite fast.
But nonetheless, it will serve as the perfect excuse for all sorts of manufacturers to either justify that the phones arrived late masking their own incompetence, or to slightly jack up the prices...
Ah, good times!
Shssh .. don't tell them about GPRS
GPRS *IS* internet.
You must be thinking about WAP on an SMS bearer, as an OLD example of Something-Over-SMS
https://www.eetimes.com/docume...
If we look at BRANDS, Q2 is Samsung first (loosing share), Huawei second (gaining share fast) and Apple Third (ganing share slowly).
But, if we look at MANUFACTURERS, Samsung is first (losing share), BBK is second (gainig share fast), Huawei is third (gaining share fast) and Apple is fourth (gainig share slowly).
Samsung and Aplle only have their namesake brands, while Huawei has the Huawei and Honor Brands, and BBK has the Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus and other brands in their stable.
Since ESR releases are supported for a year, with ESR60 you will keep this feature for a year.
By that time, some sorto of alternative solution (in the form of an extension or plug-in) will be available.
That is what many of us did with the blocking of plug-ins and XUL that acompanied the shift to Firefox quantum...
Best of luck
Performance is enough for my use case, except games. But then, who in their right mind games on ultrathins?
A mac with BOTH removable SSD & non-glued batteries
And magsafe and USB A ports, to boot
What's not to like?
You do right to not believe me.
Go check the references i put there instead. Do not settle yourself for just one rant/article. Expand your knowledge.
The articles (there is more than one article related to the topic in both magazines). Those articles were written by people far smarter than me. And those people did far mor eproof-reading than what I am willing to do on a Slashdot post, even when posting with a username.
In those articles, they cite studies done by people even smarter than the writters themselves. By transitivity, the cited people are way+far smarter than me.
So, again, do not believe me, check the references (and the references in the references) by yourself.
I know I did.
* Perhaps I can claim I coined the portmenau rantticle, as a complement to listicle.
Whether or not you welcome it isn't important as you are not that bright - as we've seen with medicine costs, U.S. companies will be sure that all costs of these systems around the world are on the backs of U.S. citizens once they are convinced/forced to use
I said quite clearly that I am not in the US. So, if the costs of those systems around the world are on the back of US citizens, that's an indirect subsidy for me, and all others around the world.
conspiracy theories aside... who is "not that bright" now? :-P ;-)
The biggest factor in wealth building is the time value of money. Every year that you remain in Venezuela waiting for that lottery ticket out is another year where you weren't making forward progress somewhere else
My Finance and Economy teachers said as much in my MBA in Madrid... ;-)
Especially for an educated person who speaks, reads and writes English, like yourself for example
Et Francais aussi. ;-)
(goes without the cedille, due to Slashdot's stubornness in supporting UTF-8)
Either here in the US, EU, Canada, Australia, etc.
Actually, even a LatAm country would be good enough for me. Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru give migration facilities to Venezuelans nowadays. But again, is more of an emotional issue, not a knowledge one.
Canada has a points based immigration system so if you can demonstrate high skill levels in critical technical areas you may have a leg up
Canada is a no go. For one, I am single and 40plus, for the other, they have hardened their stance on Venezuelans seeking residence. (I considered Canada as an option, and did my due diligence).
Good luck
Thank you for the good wishes, and also for the interest, and the time you took to write. Only time will tell.
By the way, a couple of the points I responded with humor, this is not to be confused with sarcasm.
Again, thanks.
For me, at the moment, is the same staying or leaving.
If a good offer/opportunity comes along, I'll leave. If not, I'd rather stay, at least for the time being.
This is my stance today, but that may change at any time, based on internal (emotional) or external (country situation) developments.
By the way, If you know a position for a Telco Cloud computing trainer/architect, please do me a solid and drop me a heads-up.
I love cash, but electronic money is more convenient, more versatile and great.
Just ask a non-bancarized guy in Kenya or Tanzania using M-Pesa about it... And trust me when I tell you that Safaricom and Vodafone did not implement this from the goodness of their hears, but for pure profit, and yet, it ended up raising the living standards of the people at large, and specialy of those non-bancarized.
Sources:
The economist Sept 26-oct 2, 2009
And IEEE Spectrum here:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/stat...
Yes, if we look at electronic money and a cashless society from the optic of a westener who has enough diposable income to aford a computer and knows what this "internet" thing is, is all doom and gloom.
But once we try to get ourselves in the whorn -out shoes of less fortunate people that make less than $1 a day (and for me, being in Venezuela, this is easier, as is not a tought experiemnt, but a reality I see everyday) we see that electronic money can be beneficial for everyone, warts and all...
So, I for one, welcome our e-money overlords... Yes, I wish there would still be cash, but... whatever benefits the many is ok by me...
but still, are lacking in the security department.
VMs in theory should be more secure, but in practice, Hypervisors are such huge behemoths that there are always security holes in the hypervisor.
In reality, discussing the relative security between containers and VMs is like discussing how many angels can dance in the head of a pin, a futile excersice.
the relative security will ebb and flow, some times in favour of VMs, sometimes in favour of Containers.
But in the end, it will not matter, as we all will end up running our containers inside VMs, sacrificing some of the performance gains of containers for the HUUUGE sysadmin advantages of VMs.
How interesting it is, then, that Antivirus vendors are still implementing Antivirus for Mac and linux.
Even MORE so, they are implementing antivirus that hooks into your Virtualization/cloud platforms to protect your VMs, both virtual servers and Virtual Desktops...
Here is te solution from ESET for VMWare:
https://www.eset.com/int/busin...
Here is from Bitdefender, for many Hypervisors:
https://www.bitdefender.com/bu...
Here is the one from Sophos:
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/m...
But hey, I guess I'll better surrender my geek credentials, as well as all the people working in ClamAV, and all the engineers and managers that are working in such a clear dead end technologies as Mac and Linux antivirus at those companies (and many more).
After all, is soo clear for me now, you and Anon coward can not be wrong.
Somehow, the guys who implemented ClamAV did it for Windows, Linux, MacOS, BSD and Solaris...
So, it seems that for them too, and for a lot of other people, being able to run an antivirus in *nix platforms was important and valuable.
You do not seem to value that...
But then maybe that's why you are posting as anonymous COWARD, you are afraid that they'll revoke YOUR geek card...
I'll see your "software written by someone else" and raise you connects to the internet.
Amen colleague.
Answers to your questions:
1.) With any luck, the AV engine that Google runs will e different to the AV engine that my antivirus runs.
2.) As TFA said, malware disguises itself as beningn, and then downloads the malign part. Maybe all AV packages may miss the bennign part, but only an AV running on the phone itself will deteckt (pun intended) and hopefully block the trully malign part.
3.) The Antivirus I run, gives me other goodies (licke bricking the phone in case the SIM changes). Maybe the antivirus you choose will give you some other goodies too.
A "Norton" or "Avast" someone-else trumps no-name-yet-indie-game-developer someone else.
... and in my mac, and in my Synology NAS, and in my windows (mostly virtual) machines.
If it is a General purpose computer, and you can install software written by someone else on it, even if the software only comes from an "App Store" that alegedly checks said software, one has to run an antivirus.
that goes for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, ChromeOS, Fuscia, etc.
IS five layers, with two digitizers.
Yes, it can be scratched, but they sell replaceable top layers for the beasts...
Much better than this gorilla GLASS thing. I mean, IS GLASS!!! By definition GLASS BREAKS!
More info here:
https://www.androidauthority.c...
The problem with 4G in portsmouth is that Nyarlathotep is interfering with 4G signals so that people can not post acurate photos of him before they succumb to maddness, and their phones are destroyed.
Funny! I have several persons in my circle of friends and acquaintances who still use 2G phones and don't want anything else. And why should they? Why should someone need to use the internet at all with their mobile phone? But then again telcos won't try to switch them off anytime soon in the country where I live, I guess.
Actually, maybe in the country were you live those 2G and 3G phones will be swtiched off sooner than you think.
I live in Venezuela, and it will happen, In india is happening already. Only africa remains a question mark about 2G 3G shutdown.
See, spectrum is expensive, equipment shelters are overcrowded, spectrum is super-expensive, communities are reluctants to allow new anteannas (for "reassons"), and 5G needs lots and lots of small coverage antenas.
So, a way to 5G is to eliminate the 2G and 3G equipment (freeing up electricity and space in the towers), and refarmiong the spectrum (saving money on spectrum purchases) as well as simplifiying O&M (with the corresponding cost reductions).
there are LTE "Dumbphones" for around $80 (in india are more or less free). And those will only get cheaper as time pases.
for example see:
https://www.techradar.com/news... [techradar.com]
https://smile.amazon.com/Alcat... [amazon.com]
I use 2G and 3G systems for my data logging projects. They are much cheaper. Eventually I am afraid I will need to use a full 4G LTE system (at least in the US).
You do not need to use a "full 4G LTE" system for data logging. Neither in the US, nor anywhere else. You WILL need to abandon 2G and 3G pretty much worldwide between 2020 and 2025, but do not need full 4G LTe for M2M communications (which includes data logging)
You can use LTE-M, a simpler variant of LTE, aproved in 2013 specificaly for M2M (like data logging) communications.
It goes easy on cost because of simpler modems and economies of scale because it is a pretty much single standard, and is very light on battery use (in line or even less than 2G, depending on Frequency Band, lower is better).
More info here:
https://www.radio-electronics....
But remember, we are now in 2018, there must be 5 years of advances in LTE-M2M communications, investigate further.
Why should it? I still use a 2G feature phone since it does everything I need, i can operate it without looking at the screen and while wearing gloves and the battery lasts over a week on standby. What is so welcome about me having to spend money on a phone with 4G when I don't need the functionality?
By that same token, analog phones worked fine! Why did they sunseted the standard? Oh, the Nikel-Cadmium batteries contaminated the soil more than the lithium ion of today, and while there were less phones back then, those contaminated more and used more raw materials.
The same could be said about IS-54/136, or CDMA2000, or TD-SCDMA... Those worked fine... Why discontinue them?
Anyway, you do not need to buy a smartphone to enjoy the benefits of 4G, here you can have this phone for around $80. It has 4G. You can operate it without watching the screen, you can operate it using gloves, the battery lasts for 25 days on standby (or 7.5 hours of 4G talk), and you can hang up mechanicaly.
The internet thing is a bonus, if you decide to use it in a pinch.
https://www.techradar.com/news...
If you do not like the Banana phone, you can have a 4G flip Phone for around $80 as well:
https://smile.amazon.com/Alcat...
And many others. Check around.
My first free unix was FreeBSD in 1995, but it was not useful for my purposes, so I tried Slackware in 1996. I even bought "the book" (Slackware unleashed, i do not remember the version), mainly for the CD (In venezuela, BW was and still is scarce).
Sadly, slackware and linux were also not fit for purpose (my thesis), so I moved past of Slackware to the greener pastures of RedHat and Suse. Nonetheless, I also learned HP-UX, Solaris, and Even Sinix, so I think my *nix is quite Ok.
Nonetheless, I still have fond memories of Slackware, and get very happy when I hear news about them.
A toast to patrick for the 25 years of his project, and a pint for his tenacity to overcome the obstacles (financial, health and others) to keep it running.
Here is for 25 moreyears!!!