I miss having a touch screen laptop. Despite claims of gorilla arms, it's pretty useful for individual one off moments which happen more often than you think, which really boosts productivity.
Ex: you are pointing to your screen to discuss a topic when you want to highlight something... I stead of using the touch pad and relocating the cursor... Or finding your mouse and doing the same you simply touch and drag your finger over the spot you are already focused on.
Provided they have the budget for a new machine in the first place.
In which case their older machines (ie pre-windows 10) almost certainly allow disabling of secure boot. Problem solved.
One is switching from Windows to Linux or from Windows to a Windows/Linux dual boot without wanting to have to buy all new hardware.
Which is a tiny minority of the PC market, and of those who care, the information tends to be discoverable.
Another is minors and charities, which tend to depend on donations of random hardware by those who haven't done research.
In which case they tend to use them as best they can, beggars can't be choosers they say.
A third is when after doing the research, you conclude that no manufacturers offer Linux-friendly laptop or convertible laptop/tablet PCs in a particular size range factor with a warranty in your country.
Then you do what everyone else does when buying any product which may not fully meet their requirements... compromise.
I think you're just being paid to claim to be this stupid.
In fact I am getting paid right now... but that has nothing to do with this post. Some of us have day jobs which involve more than just venting on the internet. Try again.
Get fucked, shill.
Believe it or not, people can disagree without being a shill.
How horrible that consumers are given the choice as to which OEM to buy from, and can presumably determine if a new machine meets their needs or not in this regard... if they even know what secure boot is and why they might care.
but such vendors were already doing their best to stop new users from installing Linux
Why would those OEMs care which OS an end user installs after they've got their money? "Oh, you installed Linux? I'm sorry, we only support Windows on the machine. *click*"
Just b'cos Microsoft has stopped selling them doesn't mean your phones will stop working
But it does mean that existing bugs won't be getting fixed, nor will there be much needed improvements.
I'd been a happy Windows Phone user since it first came to Verizon back in 2011. Eventually I got a better carrier (just to be able to stick with the platform), but eventually even I had to relent and go Android just a couple of months ago as it was abundantly clear that the even my 950 XL was suffering some some of the same SW issues that my previously upgraded Lumia Icon had... none of which were getting fixed.
Except I didn't vote for him, though I predicted his win months earlier.
Your attitude does suggest the sort of mentality which did not see his win as inevitable (even if I wasn't rooting for it). I hope for your sake and for the rest of the democrats that you do some good soul searching prior to 2018 & 2020... otherwise you will be trounced again.
Are you one of those living in a place like LA or NYC and wonder "How did Trump win? No one I know voted for him?"
I am typing this on a Surface Pro 3 right now, it's been my main personal portable PC for 2.5 years now. My wife has one as well, it replaced her laptop.
A friend swears by his Surface Book, alas I can't justify the cost for one at present (despite being in the market for more of a laptop.
While I work at a company which is almost exclusively a Mac shop, where for some reason my work PC is a Macbook... our VP of Security carries a SP4, our VP of engineering spends half of his time on a Surface Book, the rest on a Macbook, even our head of IT is on a Surface Book.
Perhaps 'Nobody' isn't the right metric, instead you need to widen your scope of view.
Far too often, it is easy to turn off/on other features of a product which make it less secure, all in the effort to just make it work. Once that's all done, there isn't always a careful examination of what the other implications of their other fiddling is.
I'd be very curious to which which other companies/contractors were involved in this setup, as they and their other customers should probably be thinking about a PCI security audit.
Thrift stores, goodwill, ebay, etc. Plenty of ways to get rid of things already purchased... in order to make room for new things.
One of these months I should measure exactly how much of the closet is mine and how much is hers. It's a good thing I don't have many shirts (because I don't need many), because I am left with very little.
We already have that... I still get asked the dangerous question "how does this look?" She will even take a pic herself and send it to a friend or family member for a second option, as clearly no answer I can give is correct.
camera that's designed to go somewhere in your bedroom, bathroom, or wherever the hell you get dressed
and
All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud
What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong.
Unlike say... a Nest/Dropcam which (with a cloud dvr plan) is more or less watching & streaming to the cloud 24/7... I would bet good money these things are built not unlike the Echo products... to only listen for a wake word locally, then transmit what it hears afterwards to the cloud for recognition and then act.
Sure, if you get your hands on the hardware you could probably drop a custom FW load which would turn it evil, or if you had enough access at Amazon you could do the same, but if they are smart (ie their lawyers sufficiently paranoid), they took steps to make random remote access a good bit more difficult than you think.
Don't you remember when the Google subsidiary Nest purchased a company selling a product to do just this? They paid a cool half a billion for it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/... Of course, they've done basically nothing with the platform/product since, so there may still be an untapped market.
Why? Be it a Xbox Kinect, a Samsung Smart TV, a Nest/Dropcam or any number of other cheap cameras... they are becoming pretty common in more or more homes.
Unlike those geared towards 'security' or convenience, I do (unfortunately) see plenty of these selling for those who are looking to up their style.
I've no desire for one, but I'm afraid my wife will.
While I am happy to grab whatever t-shirt is next in the closet (sometimes the wife tries to arrange them based on the next pair of pants/shorts in the dresser)... my wife is a fair bit more concerned about her look, even though she will often deny it.
It took me a while to realize, but Amazon's target market for quite a few things isn't geeks like us who want some random PC part or book delivered the next day... it's our wives/girlfriends who this is geared towards. Just watch the product video, all women, all into fashion. Sure, not all women are, but if you see enough of them in the wild you see how/why this is a smart move to target them.
Go a bit further, ask married couples around you: Who orders more on Amazon? Who has a higher income in the household? More often than not (doubly so in households with children), the wife spends more on Amazon while the husband is the one paying for most of it.
Note: I'm not saying any of this is good or bad (wrt who spends and who pays), simply that it is a smart move by Amazon to further exploit an area they've targeted for quite some time.
Given the relative differences between how much the Clinton & Trump campaigns spent on the election (http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-campaign-spending), it seems as if the idea of buying votes is not as easy as once thought.
Ahh, then no, not that specific, you are still allowed the use of a "Hands-free accessory" which they define as "an attachment or built-in feature for or an addition to a mobile communication device, whether or not permanently installed in a motor vehicle, that when used allows a person to maintain both hands on the steering wheel."... which at least allows for say... a bluetooth connection to your car, which at first I thought you are prevented from, it not being a 'head set'.
Granted, you still aren't trusted to pump your own gas, so there are stranger things.
Is the law actually written that specific? Here in WA, the wording prohibits holding the phone to your ear... which means you putting it on speaker phone and holding it in front of your face is perfectly legal. Just be careful hiding it down on your lap, because if the cop sees you looking down there too much you are going to get pulled over for texting.
Nope. All evidence shows that it is the conversation on the phone that is dangerous.
Citation?
It doesn't matter if you are doing it handfree or holding the phone in your hand.
Because...?
Having a conversation with a remote person takes 80% of your concentrations and increases your chance of having an accident 100 times.
And what % of your concentration does a local person have?
At least with a remote person, whether you are holding your phone to your ear or both hands on the wheel and speaker phone, you are not as tempted to look at the person, be they next to you or behind you.
"But the local person can see the situation around you and stop taking your attention when the situation warrants" I've often heard... most of those people I suspect don't have children, or chatty friends, or the ability to stop listening to what is coming in their ear when their full attention is needed on the road.
What surprises me is that they need a study to tell this.
How else are researchers going to get money to fund pet research projects?
At every red light, you can see at least 1/2 driver looking at their phone.
Which seems a good bit safer there then when in motion and they would be less obvious, same reason I'll dig for a dropped toy and hand it back to my son when at a light, rather than when in motion.
Best way to catch them: cops in buses to spot them
And if you are too stupid not to be aware of your surroundings when breaking that particular law, you probably deserve the ticket.
And best way to deter them: higher ticket price.
Who says the fines are intended to deter?
Here in Washington state, you texing or holding your phone to your ear will get you a small fine, but the infraction does not get reported to your insurance company, nor does it count against the points on your license as say... speeding or failing to stop completely at a stop sign will (let alone DUI or running a red light).
It's as if, it's more of an aesthetically driven revenue generator, rather than one intended to decrease talking/texting and increase road safety.
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I miss having a touch screen laptop. Despite claims of gorilla arms, it's pretty useful for individual one off moments which happen more often than you think, which really boosts productivity.
Ex: you are pointing to your screen to discuss a topic when you want to highlight something... I stead of using the touch pad and relocating the cursor... Or finding your mouse and doing the same you simply touch and drag your finger over the spot you are already focused on.
Also works well for acquisitions abroad.
I'm pretty sure Skype & Nokia mobile weren't purchased by MS using their US based bank account.
In which case their older machines (ie pre-windows 10) almost certainly allow disabling of secure boot. Problem solved.
Which is a tiny minority of the PC market, and of those who care, the information tends to be discoverable.
In which case they tend to use them as best they can, beggars can't be choosers they say.
Then you do what everyone else does when buying any product which may not fully meet their requirements... compromise.
Why not educate me then?
In fact I am getting paid right now... but that has nothing to do with this post. Some of us have day jobs which involve more than just venting on the internet. Try again.
Believe it or not, people can disagree without being a shill.
How horrible that consumers are given the choice as to which OEM to buy from, and can presumably determine if a new machine meets their needs or not in this regard... if they even know what secure boot is and why they might care.
Why would those OEMs care which OS an end user installs after they've got their money? "Oh, you installed Linux? I'm sorry, we only support Windows on the machine. *click*"
But it does mean that existing bugs won't be getting fixed, nor will there be much needed improvements.
I'd been a happy Windows Phone user since it first came to Verizon back in 2011. Eventually I got a better carrier (just to be able to stick with the platform), but eventually even I had to relent and go Android just a couple of months ago as it was abundantly clear that the even my 950 XL was suffering some some of the same SW issues that my previously upgraded Lumia Icon had... none of which were getting fixed.
Except I didn't vote for him, though I predicted his win months earlier.
Your attitude does suggest the sort of mentality which did not see his win as inevitable (even if I wasn't rooting for it). I hope for your sake and for the rest of the democrats that you do some good soul searching prior to 2018 & 2020... otherwise you will be trounced again.
Are you one of those living in a place like LA or NYC and wonder "How did Trump win? No one I know voted for him?"
I am typing this on a Surface Pro 3 right now, it's been my main personal portable PC for 2.5 years now. My wife has one as well, it replaced her laptop.
A friend swears by his Surface Book, alas I can't justify the cost for one at present (despite being in the market for more of a laptop.
While I work at a company which is almost exclusively a Mac shop, where for some reason my work PC is a Macbook... our VP of Security carries a SP4, our VP of engineering spends half of his time on a Surface Book, the rest on a Macbook, even our head of IT is on a Surface Book.
Perhaps 'Nobody' isn't the right metric, instead you need to widen your scope of view.
I see your problem...
Far too often, it is easy to turn off/on other features of a product which make it less secure, all in the effort to just make it work. Once that's all done, there isn't always a careful examination of what the other implications of their other fiddling is.
I'd be very curious to which which other companies/contractors were involved in this setup, as they and their other customers should probably be thinking about a PCI security audit.
Thrift stores, goodwill, ebay, etc. Plenty of ways to get rid of things already purchased... in order to make room for new things.
One of these months I should measure exactly how much of the closet is mine and how much is hers. It's a good thing I don't have many shirts (because I don't need many), because I am left with very little.
That is a good solution indeed, for you, but you forget, we are not normal people, this camera is targeted at normal people.
We already have that... I still get asked the dangerous question "how does this look?" She will even take a pic herself and send it to a friend or family member for a second option, as clearly no answer I can give is correct.
Unlike say... a Nest/Dropcam which (with a cloud dvr plan) is more or less watching & streaming to the cloud 24/7... I would bet good money these things are built not unlike the Echo products... to only listen for a wake word locally, then transmit what it hears afterwards to the cloud for recognition and then act.
Sure, if you get your hands on the hardware you could probably drop a custom FW load which would turn it evil, or if you had enough access at Amazon you could do the same, but if they are smart (ie their lawyers sufficiently paranoid), they took steps to make random remote access a good bit more difficult than you think.
Don't you remember when the Google subsidiary Nest purchased a company selling a product to do just this? They paid a cool half a billion for it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/... Of course, they've done basically nothing with the platform/product since, so there may still be an untapped market.
Why? Be it a Xbox Kinect, a Samsung Smart TV, a Nest/Dropcam or any number of other cheap cameras... they are becoming pretty common in more or more homes.
Unlike those geared towards 'security' or convenience, I do (unfortunately) see plenty of these selling for those who are looking to up their style.
I've no desire for one, but I'm afraid my wife will.
You must not be married.
While I am happy to grab whatever t-shirt is next in the closet (sometimes the wife tries to arrange them based on the next pair of pants/shorts in the dresser)... my wife is a fair bit more concerned about her look, even though she will often deny it.
It took me a while to realize, but Amazon's target market for quite a few things isn't geeks like us who want some random PC part or book delivered the next day... it's our wives/girlfriends who this is geared towards. Just watch the product video, all women, all into fashion. Sure, not all women are, but if you see enough of them in the wild you see how/why this is a smart move to target them.
Go a bit further, ask married couples around you: Who orders more on Amazon? Who has a higher income in the household? More often than not (doubly so in households with children), the wife spends more on Amazon while the husband is the one paying for most of it.
Note: I'm not saying any of this is good or bad (wrt who spends and who pays), simply that it is a smart move by Amazon to further exploit an area they've targeted for quite some time.
And?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So has SCOTUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Given the relative differences between how much the Clinton & Trump campaigns spent on the election (http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-campaign-spending), it seems as if the idea of buying votes is not as easy as once thought.
Nothing says taking the fight to the enemy like calling them a term they don't like being called.
I can only imagine how the Germany & Japan took to being called 'Jerries' & 'Japs', probably won the wore more than anything else.
Ahh, then no, not that specific, you are still allowed the use of a "Hands-free accessory" which they define as "an attachment or built-in feature for or an addition to a mobile communication device, whether or not permanently installed in a motor vehicle, that when used allows a person to maintain both hands on the steering wheel."... which at least allows for say... a bluetooth connection to your car, which at first I thought you are prevented from, it not being a 'head set'.
Granted, you still aren't trusted to pump your own gas, so there are stranger things.
Take cell phones out of it for a minute.
On the whole, who tends to be a better driver on average? A 20 year old, or a 40 year old?
Like anything, the more time you spend do something, the better you tend to be at it.
Is the law actually written that specific? Here in WA, the wording prohibits holding the phone to your ear... which means you putting it on speaker phone and holding it in front of your face is perfectly legal. Just be careful hiding it down on your lap, because if the cop sees you looking down there too much you are going to get pulled over for texting.
Citation?
Because...?
And what % of your concentration does a local person have?
At least with a remote person, whether you are holding your phone to your ear or both hands on the wheel and speaker phone, you are not as tempted to look at the person, be they next to you or behind you.
"But the local person can see the situation around you and stop taking your attention when the situation warrants" I've often heard... most of those people I suspect don't have children, or chatty friends, or the ability to stop listening to what is coming in their ear when their full attention is needed on the road.
How else are researchers going to get money to fund pet research projects?
Which seems a good bit safer there then when in motion and they would be less obvious, same reason I'll dig for a dropped toy and hand it back to my son when at a light, rather than when in motion.
And if you are too stupid not to be aware of your surroundings when breaking that particular law, you probably deserve the ticket.
Who says the fines are intended to deter?
Here in Washington state, you texing or holding your phone to your ear will get you a small fine, but the infraction does not get reported to your insurance company, nor does it count against the points on your license as say... speeding or failing to stop completely at a stop sign will (let alone DUI or running a red light).
It's as if, it's more of an aesthetically driven revenue generator, rather than one intended to decrease talking/texting and increase road safety.