But I wish they would find a way to make encryption secure and much more cheaper (Certificates are still a killer, in terms of ease of installing, and price you often need to pay for them, for the amount of actual validation they give you for it)
Try looking at Let's Encrypt if you want free certificates.
Facebook has got where it is because of 2 main reasons: (a) it has achieved a 'critical mass' ie: if you want to do this sort of thing with friends the most likely place where you will find them is facebook; (b) facebook does not facilitate connecting to people on different social networks - which means people must choose which social network to use and because of (a) the best choice is facebook, this is the 'network effect' - the most interconnected wins.
The way of breaking this is a facebook RFC that describes how social networks can interoperate, so that people can choose which one they use and be able to link, find, chat,... to friends on other social network providers. Ie the RFC would provide a means of breaking facebook's effective monopoly. These social networks would then compete on other features, eg: human language, regionality, special interest (eg fishing, music, model aircraft,...) - while not losing the network effect.
Facebook will not do this - it would be commercial suicide; unless many, many FB-RFC interconnected alternatives attracted a significant proportion of humanity.
something that would let me find which tab(s) are eating my CPU with some crappy javascript. I would then be able to close the tab; although a ''stop javascript in this tab'' button would be better.
While the residents weren't able to get any belongings, the FBI bomb squad did retrieve high value items for them.
What do they mean by value; very often the things that are most precious to people are things of little financial value, like the small wooden boat that grandpa helped you to paint.
lots of mention of how they keep car s/ware patched... no mention of what else they might use the 4G connection for -- maybe slurping data, like where I have been and sell that data on. They will have an interesting time coping with the upcoming EU GDPR.
to push out an update to my 'phone which is running Android 4.3. I had the cracked screen replaced this week and thus hope to use it for at least another 2 years.
Do I want to update ? No: it does what I want.
Gnome 3 changed in a way that removed things that I had become used to, eg the ability to create a set of desktops 3 by 4 and then do some tasks in specific desktops. Yes: you can have multiple desktops but only move up & down -- hard to use; no option to do it the way that I want.
run every app in its own container where I can specify what the external world looks like from within the container. So: GPS some location/track that I have chosen (regardless of the hardware GPS even being switched on), sound & camera virtual and maybe hearing/seeing some pre-recorded rubbish, contacts database - maybe unique to the container, ditto call log,... Ie I want to control what the app perceives through the 'phones sensors.
It was broadcast from 18.30 to 19.00, a slot on BBC Radio 4 that is used Monday - Friday for comedy, similar, shows. March 8 2020 is a Sunday, the 18.15-19.00 Sunday evening schedules Pick of the Week. Yes: 42 years would have been better, but the arithmetic of the calendar was against them.
ship these guys a few kilograms of good quality Cocaine. It seems clear that they are starting to be able to talk after the last lot, but are not yet making sense. It is probably simpler and more effective for everyone if we just push them back into their drug induced addled fantasy world that to try to sober them up and break the bad new that what the rocks told them just is not true.
That way: they'll be happy and we'll all be happy!
The Communist party has painted the move - which experts say paves the way for Xi to become a dictator for life - as an expression of overwhelming popular support for China’s strongman leader.
If he really had ''overwhelming popular support'' then he would have little problem with some on-line criticisms. That he feels it necessary to stamp out any dissent suggests either: that his grip on power is not as it appears, or: that he is a snowflake that cannot stand any criticism.
What he does not understand is that by shutting down opposition discussion: he will find it harder to know what others think; underground dissent will grow and, because of a lack of safety valve, might blow up in his face. Absolute suppression may work for a few years, not forever. Does he want the history books in 100 years to describe him as a great reformer or as a tyrant ?
Sad that the big thing Microsoft is pumped about is a stale word processor and spreadsheet package.
Satya will fix that when he has enough users running cloud software with any component that resides on a PC being frequently updated. Release a whole bunch of ''improvements'' that just happen to require a change to the file format - things that really matter... thus making problems for Libreoffice. 6 months later once Libreoffice has caught up; do it again; then again. Eventually most people will give up with Libreoffice. Yes: the EU will sue Microsoft and say that its file formats must be documented, but in a fast moving environment the competition will never quite get the opportunity to catch up.
because bone headed politicians are still arguing about it. By 'bone headed' I do not mean so stupid that they do not understand that you cannot have secret back-doors (although there are undoubtably some that are that stupid), but 'bone headed' in the sense that they continue to want to get their way irrespective of the practical impossibility and regardless of the damage that it will cause.
I suspect that some of them are playing a more subtle game, they secretly accept that it cannot be done but keep on pushing because they hope that the Tech companies will give way on something else that is more valuable to the politicians as a 'compromise' deal. Whatever this something else turns out to be I can guarantee that it will not be to your or my benefit.
Posturing like this also makes them sound good to Joe Sixpack who does not understand, but like politicians who talk hard against terrorists, etc - ie good for votes.
The EU's GDPR seems to want opt in. OK that link is about receiving email, etc, but I suspect that the same would apply for data collection. This will also apply to Microsoft's telemetry.
The up coming General Data Protection Regulation says, amongst many other things, that data must only be used for the purpose that it is obtained and can only be used with the explicit permission of the individual. Hopefully scum-bags like facebook will change once they have had a few fines of 2% of the annual worldwide turnover.
for this & also the Apple, Google and probably yet-to-be-announced Microsoft chips ? They could be useful/fun to hack with. However: I suspect that they will be part of a black box that they will take efforts to keep us out of:-(
why there is a fixed price to the repair. Surely the cost of repair depends on what is wrong, so I can only suppose that the charge for repair has a lot of profit baked in.Yes: I understand that repair will include a charge for labour, but it was put together in the first place. All the more reason for 'right to repair' legislation that forces a vendor to provide spare parts.
other customers might not be properly acknowledged; might not even be sold by the company but by an employee who is running short of cash this month...
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But I wish they would find a way to make encryption secure and much more cheaper (Certificates are still a killer, in terms of ease of installing, and price you often need to pay for them, for the amount of actual validation they give you for it)
Try looking at Let's Encrypt if you want free certificates.
Facebook has got where it is because of 2 main reasons: (a) it has achieved a 'critical mass' ie: if you want to do this sort of thing with friends the most likely place where you will find them is facebook; (b) facebook does not facilitate connecting to people on different social networks - which means people must choose which social network to use and because of (a) the best choice is facebook, this is the 'network effect' - the most interconnected wins.
The way of breaking this is a facebook RFC that describes how social networks can interoperate, so that people can choose which one they use and be able to link, find, chat, ... to friends on other social network providers. Ie the RFC would provide a means of breaking facebook's effective monopoly. These social networks would then compete on other features, eg: human language, regionality, special interest (eg fishing, music, model aircraft, ...) - while not losing the network effect.
Facebook will not do this - it would be commercial suicide; unless many, many FB-RFC interconnected alternatives attracted a significant proportion of humanity.
I cannot see this happening, unfortunately.
see title
something that would let me find which tab(s) are eating my CPU with some crappy javascript. I would then be able to close the tab; although a ''stop javascript in this tab'' button would be better.
While the residents weren't able to get any belongings, the FBI bomb squad did retrieve high value items for them.
What do they mean by value; very often the things that are most precious to people are things of little financial value, like the small wooden boat that grandpa helped you to paint.
lots of mention of how they keep car s/ware patched ... no mention of what else they might use the 4G connection for -- maybe slurping data, like where I have been and sell that data on. They will have an interesting time coping with the upcoming EU GDPR.
to push out an update to my 'phone which is running Android 4.3. I had the cracked screen replaced this week and thus hope to use it for at least another 2 years. Do I want to update ? No: it does what I want.
I for one stopped buying AMD processors since they introduced PSP
So: who did you warn about the PSP (introduced about 2013) ? If you did not use AMD or Intel processors, what were you using ?
Gnome 3 changed in a way that removed things that I had become used to, eg the ability to create a set of desktops 3 by 4 and then do some tasks in specific desktops. Yes: you can have multiple desktops but only move up & down -- hard to use; no option to do it the way that I want.
run every app in its own container where I can specify what the external world looks like from within the container. So: GPS some location/track that I have chosen (regardless of the hardware GPS even being switched on), sound & camera virtual and maybe hearing/seeing some pre-recorded rubbish, contacts database - maybe unique to the container, ditto call log, ... Ie I want to control what the app perceives through the 'phones sensors.
The BBC couldn't wait two more years?
It was broadcast from 18.30 to 19.00, a slot on BBC Radio 4 that is used Monday - Friday for comedy, similar, shows. March 8 2020 is a Sunday, the 18.15-19.00 Sunday evening schedules Pick of the Week. Yes: 42 years would have been better, but the arithmetic of the calendar was against them.
ship these guys a few kilograms of good quality Cocaine. It seems clear that they are starting to be able to talk after the last lot, but are not yet making sense. It is probably simpler and more effective for everyone if we just push them back into their drug induced addled fantasy world that to try to sober them up and break the bad new that what the rocks told them just is not true.
That way: they'll be happy and we'll all be happy!
If he really had ''overwhelming popular support'' then he would have little problem with some on-line criticisms. That he feels it necessary to stamp out any dissent suggests either: that his grip on power is not as it appears, or: that he is a snowflake that cannot stand any criticism.
What he does not understand is that by shutting down opposition discussion: he will find it harder to know what others think; underground dissent will grow and, because of a lack of safety valve, might blow up in his face. Absolute suppression may work for a few years, not forever. Does he want the history books in 100 years to describe him as a great reformer or as a tyrant ?
you will find a lawyer earning a fee by trying to get some of it ...
Sad that the big thing Microsoft is pumped about is a stale word processor and spreadsheet package.
Satya will fix that when he has enough users running cloud software with any component that resides on a PC being frequently updated. Release a whole bunch of ''improvements'' that just happen to require a change to the file format - things that really matter ... thus making problems for Libreoffice. 6 months later once Libreoffice has caught up; do it again; then again. Eventually most people will give up with Libreoffice. Yes: the EU will sue Microsoft and say that its file formats must be documented, but in a fast moving environment the competition will never quite get the opportunity to catch up.
If the bad guy could not get a gun we would not need a good guy with a gun to stop him.
That is my reply to NRA's Wayne LaPierre's comment “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
it verifies that you have obtained the information on a post card. Two simple ways of subverting it (you can probably dream up more):
* Set up postal redirection
* Offer someone a small payment: ''when you receive a postcard addressed to Mr Smith, use your mobile to send a photograph of it to me"
because bone headed politicians are still arguing about it. By 'bone headed' I do not mean so stupid that they do not understand that you cannot have secret back-doors (although there are undoubtably some that are that stupid), but 'bone headed' in the sense that they continue to want to get their way irrespective of the practical impossibility and regardless of the damage that it will cause.
I suspect that some of them are playing a more subtle game, they secretly accept that it cannot be done but keep on pushing because they hope that the Tech companies will give way on something else that is more valuable to the politicians as a 'compromise' deal. Whatever this something else turns out to be I can guarantee that it will not be to your or my benefit.
Posturing like this also makes them sound good to Joe Sixpack who does not understand, but like politicians who talk hard against terrorists, etc - ie good for votes.
The EU's GDPR seems to want opt in. OK that link is about receiving email, etc, but I suspect that the same would apply for data collection. This will also apply to Microsoft's telemetry.
The up coming General Data Protection Regulation says, amongst many other things, that data must only be used for the purpose that it is obtained and can only be used with the explicit permission of the individual. Hopefully scum-bags like facebook will change once they have had a few fines of 2% of the annual worldwide turnover.
for this & also the Apple, Google and probably yet-to-be-announced Microsoft chips ? They could be useful/fun to hack with. However: I suspect that they will be part of a black box that they will take efforts to keep us out of :-(
Apple will do just as well to throw them in the shredder
That is not very eco-friendly is it ?
why there is a fixed price to the repair. Surely the cost of repair depends on what is wrong, so I can only suppose that the charge for repair has a lot of profit baked in.Yes: I understand that repair will include a charge for labour, but it was put together in the first place. All the more reason for 'right to repair' legislation that forces a vendor to provide spare parts.
other customers might not be properly acknowledged; might not even be sold by the company but by an employee who is running short of cash this month ...
Please can I have the moderation option: +1 irony.